2018 pre-season testing thread

[HPD]

The tight packaging of Mclaren scares me or worries me..

[Thunder]

All good as long as ist doesn't catch Fire. ^^

[Morteza]

Williams had blisters on its paint yesterday, isn't that worse than this?

[Anthropolyte]

Depends on whether the paint is up to the job! I'd be more concerned about burn marks, especially given their pattern on the bodywork in that shot...

[HPD]

I have high hopes in Leclerc.

Gasly with a round of almost 18 laps.

[Avocado]

Any good sites for live timing (times, lap count etc.)?

[Morteza]

Any good sites for live timing (times, lap count etc.)?

I use these (Autosport Live and F1Today) at the same time

https://www.autosport.com/f1/live/27509 ... y-two-2018
https://www.f1today.net/en/live/f1/2363 ... st-in-2018

[Avocado]

Thanks.

[Ishwar030]

Bottas Stint (S) Out 1:24.6, 1:22.6, 1:21.5, 1:21.3, 1:21.0, 1:20.2, 1:24.4 In.

[santos]

Why do F1 keeps testing on Europe in the winter? Even if it was sunny, the temperatures are very different from what they will find when racing.

[Anthropolyte]

Why do F1 keeps testing on Europe in the winter? Even if it was sunny, the temperatures are very different from what they will find when racing.

Proximity to the majority of teams' bases, which are generally in the UK and Europe. If they tested in countries where it was summer, it would be an awful lot harder to ship in parts, diagnose faults, etc.

[j2004p]

Why do F1 keeps testing on Europe in the winter? Even if it was sunny, the temperatures are very different from what they will find when racing.

The logistics of getting the team, car and all the equipment to the testing location coupled to the tight testing schedule these days,

Add to that they're shuttling new parts over from their bases on a daily basis. Doing that to somewhere like Bahrain is a headache they can do without.

[HPD]

2017
Sainz 1:21.371 UltraSoft

2018
Gasly 1:21.318 Soft

I know, calm down. New asphalt haha

[NathanOlder]

Are those marks from yesterday or today??

The big number 2 is the give away, Stoff in the car today, Fernando was yesterday.

[Thunder18]

Are those marks from yesterday or today??

The big number 2 is the give away, Stoff in the car today, Fernando was yesterday.

Well, car may have remained the same and they just changed the number, but ok, different car we'll say.