Official F1 pre season testing thread
Discussion
KR158 said:
I would love nothing more than for Williams to suprise everyone & turn up with an absolute Rocket ship, "B" spec or not. Until proven otherwise I'm going to savour this thought.
me too, but sadly (if sensibly) it's largely the same car that finished last in the last 2 years.SmoothCriminal said:
Piginapoke said:
I'm interested if Alonso will be fit and able to attend. He missed the launch 2 weeks ago.
Was a post yesterday think it was by sky sports or f1 saying he is fit and ready for the test.Edit. Found it.
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24184/12239725/f...
JonChalk said:
Big Nanas said:
Sandpit Steve said:
jsf said:
Croft is still an irritating plank.
He thinks he’s commentating on a P3 session, with everyone preparing for qualifying rather than running a test programme. And great to hear that Alex Jaques will be continuing F2 and F3 commentary.
TheDeuce said:
Am I the only one that thinks this years testing schedule was a bit of a flop in terms of viewing and drama?
I thought the compressed running time would make it more interesting to watch, which in some ways was true.. But on reflection I think that not splitting the test days over a two week period has taken quite a bit away for the fans. It's not that there used to be more days overall that I miss, it's that there was a break between the first and final days sufficient for the teams to iron out many issues. This year however, there was only time to identify issues, but no time whatsoever to design, fabricate and ship parts to address what was uncovered - so as viewers/fans the story is more incomplete than ever. We have literally no idea if the problems identified by the teams might be enduring or easily fixed by the time we see the cars again.
Wouldn't a 2 day one week, two day following week have been better? Or even just a 1 day wk1, 2 day wk2 arrangement.
I know it seems entitled to criticise, I know it's for the teams and not for us - but it's televised throughout now on the basis we're supposed to be interested. It was always a bit difficult to justify watching it all as there were few firm conclusions to be drawn from testing. But this new format with zero time to effect any fixes other than setup tweaks means we learn even less about the likely order and who is likely to struggle or excel.
Eh? Surely the point was that, in the main, the teams had no problems to fix; it was largely down to business. I didn't miss the hours of no cars on track we'd see previously- the teams even ran in the sandstorm! I liked it & would keep it.I thought the compressed running time would make it more interesting to watch, which in some ways was true.. But on reflection I think that not splitting the test days over a two week period has taken quite a bit away for the fans. It's not that there used to be more days overall that I miss, it's that there was a break between the first and final days sufficient for the teams to iron out many issues. This year however, there was only time to identify issues, but no time whatsoever to design, fabricate and ship parts to address what was uncovered - so as viewers/fans the story is more incomplete than ever. We have literally no idea if the problems identified by the teams might be enduring or easily fixed by the time we see the cars again.
Wouldn't a 2 day one week, two day following week have been better? Or even just a 1 day wk1, 2 day wk2 arrangement.
I know it seems entitled to criticise, I know it's for the teams and not for us - but it's televised throughout now on the basis we're supposed to be interested. It was always a bit difficult to justify watching it all as there were few firm conclusions to be drawn from testing. But this new format with zero time to effect any fixes other than setup tweaks means we learn even less about the likely order and who is likely to struggle or excel.
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