F1 Fanatic

Do you have a source for that? And this doesn’t really help when we’re over-looking the cock-pit :)

I think it’s too early to say with regards McLaren in paricular, They are only now starting to put together and real strings of laps. The Ferrari and Redbull seem pretty good though.

In Answer to the question re why we go testing in Spain, it is because it is as far south (Hence warm) as the teams can go whilst staying in Europe which they try to do for cost reasons.

I wish they’d go to Monza instead, or is it colder in Italy?

Yep, I’m about 6 hours from Monza and it’s around 0 (celsius) here, shouldn’t be much different there I reckon.

We really won’t know anything until Melbourne. The Bridgestones didn’t like the cold either. I do expect the Pirellis to have these general trends, but less severe.

The one thing from the new Hamilton interview that worried me was about going slowly to preserve the tyres. If you aren’t able to do the opposite, go faster but have to make one more pit stop overall, because that will leave you 12 (or whatever) seconds short, then this is an area where Pirelli have boobed.

In theory with the adjustable wing, a driver will have more opportunity to make use of fresh rubber. My prediction is that this will favour drivers aggressive drivers like Alonso, Hamilton and less so the smooth and steady Button.

Its a good point Icthyes, although the tyres look to drop off so much once they are gone.

However taking your point, the guy who can squeeze an extra lap out of a set could have an advantage. Although I think the ability to overtake will be a decider as with only a dozen or so laps to play with you cannot afford to waste any behind an out of position slower car.

This means we can expect to see lots of action after a short safety car period in which the front runners did not have the chance to pit, but some quite handy mid fielders did.