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With the Barcelona shakedown done and dusted, Fernando Alonso picked out his former team Ferrari as the pacesetters.

Not for a long time has there been such great intrigue heading into a new Formula 1 season, largely because there are so many unknowns, with major regulation changes creating new-look cars for the 2022 campaign.

The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was the first venue to put these new challengers on show together, as the 10 teams hit the track for a three-day group shakedown.

It is never wise to judge where the teams stand in terms of pace based on testing times, but there can be no denying that Ferrari looked strong as they focused on reliability over speed.

Ferrari completed the most laps of any team with 439 over the three days, while their fastest lap time, courtesy of Charles Leclerc, was just over half-a-second shy of Lewis Hamilton’s benchmark, yet it was set on the C3 tyres, while Hamilton went all the way to the highest-grip C5 rubber.

And so from Alonso’s observations, he believes that Ferrari are the fastest team out there at this stage.

“Ferrari seems to be the fastest car, which is surely a surprise,” Marca quote