2024 Aston Martin | Aramco F1 Team

[-wkst-]

Exactly, even Krack mentioned that ALO was quite happy with the car.

STR is doing STR things (or useful team work - I doubt that however). doing some laps, box, changes - and the same route again...

[KimiRai]

Stroll so far does not look like he really did a great lap at any moment of the afternoon , only 3 tenths ahead of Alonso's time during the day with a much worse track, I believe there is more to unlock than Ferrari and McL

[KimiRai]

Frankly a terrible afternoon for Stroll, havent seen him manage a single good lap without mistakes, he couldn't even stay on the track to check the flowviz. Day and night compared to Fernando who looked fast immediately, and to make matters worse the left rear-view mirror has fallen off the car. Looks like the universe is still messing with Stroll this season @AR3-GP

[-wkst-]

For me the concerning thing is: is he even able to give useful feedback seeing him driving around like a beginner (only compareable to SAR)?

All others did useful longruns under these (race) conditions, STR did runs off-track.

[KimiRai]

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[GoranF1]

[alonsofan]

Exactly, even Krack mentioned that ALO was quite happy with the car.

STR is doing STR things (or useful team work - I doubt that however). doing some laps, box, changes - and the same route again...

A driver being happy with the car, and the car being fast are not correlated in any way

[alonsofan]

Frankly a terrible afternoon for Stroll, havent seen him manage a single good lap without mistakes, he couldn't even stay on the track to check the flowviz. Day and night compared to Fernando who looked fast immediately, and to make matters worse the left rear-view mirror has fallen off the car. Looks like the universe is still messing with Stroll this season @AR3-GP

That probably means that the car is twitchy like it was in the 2nd half of last season. Let's see

[KimiRai]

Frankly a terrible afternoon for Stroll, havent seen him manage a single good lap without mistakes, he couldn't even stay on the track to check the flowviz. Day and night compared to Fernando who looked fast immediately, and to make matters worse the left rear-view mirror has fallen off the car. Looks like the universe is still messing with Stroll this season @AR3-GP

That probably means that the car is twitchy like it was in the 2nd half of last season. Let's see

too early to tell perhaps but so far it seemed like Stroll was not comfortable while Alonso was on it in the morning, it's said Alo was happy in the feedback

[RedNEO]

Frankly a terrible afternoon for Stroll, havent seen him manage a single good lap without mistakes, he couldn't even stay on the track to check the flowviz. Day and night compared to Fernando who looked fast immediately, and to make matters worse the left rear-view mirror has fallen off the car. Looks like the universe is still messing with Stroll this season @AR3-GP

That probably means that the car is twitchy like it was in the 2nd half of last season. Let's see

too early to tell perhaps but so far it seemed like Stroll was not comfortable while Alonso was on it in the morning, it's said Alo was happy in the feedback

I just hope they don’t get themselves into the mess they got last year by maybe focusing on trying to make the car easier for stroll to drive aka slower and going down the wrong path. A fast car doesn’t equal easy to drive. If Stroll can’t drive he should step aside and let someone else try.

[KimiRai]

apart from Red Bull doing very well its difficult to read those behind, hopefully next two days answer more questions

[NAPI10]

It's just the first day of testing so no point in the car comparison discussions.
At this point just need to understand; How is the general feeling in the team? Does the team feel, that simulation times and on-track times are correlating?

[NAPI10]

The first day, trackside impression-
https://speedcafe.com/worrying-red-bull ... 1-testing/

[mvfad]

My first impression of the car on the first day of the 2023 pre-season was better than the impression I had now.

[KimiRai]

My first impression of the car on the first day of the 2023 pre-season was better than the impression I had now.

Agree, though imo part of it has to be with Stroll being in the afternoon rather than Alo and him visibly pushing in 2023 while I don't think we saw that from Stroll today