iotar__ wrote:Since the beginning of the tests we hear that Jerez is an unusual track, high degradation, temperatures and layout unlike any track they use during the season. In short: not very useful. So forgive me for asking the obvious: why test there at all?!
Because testing can still tell you a lot of things – like whether air is flowing to the places you expect it to flow, whether suspension is reacting the way you expect it to, whether the gearbox blows up 3 laps short of a race distance, ...
Note – the last test, and next is in fact at the Circuit de Catalunya, which is
very like a circuit they race at during the year
The answer that they need two different tracks makes no sense when one of them is not useful. Costs? I don't think so. Weather? How? Better to have three days in Barcelona than four in Jerez. What else?
They
do need multiple kinds of track – the Circuit de Catalunya is the single most high speed downforce biased circuits on the calendar. They need circuits that test low speed things too.
