1) Hartley 90 (honda laughing now??) 2) Ricciardo 84 Solid 3) Raikkonen 77 slow 4) Hulkenberg 73 5) Ericsson 60 6) Bottas 58 solid 7) Grosjean 54 8) Stroll 46 9) Alonso 31 10) Hamilton 25 pounding round. 11) Mazepin 22 12) Sainz 13) Sirotkin
Wow, did you see when he was in garage you couldn't see the bloke telling him it was ok to drive out of garage!!!!! Seems ok on corners but straights might be difficult to see someone in distance.
pit stops might indeed be chaos. If you can't see the guy or the stop boar... oh oh. how'd you get killed? F1... oh drive... no mate was standing waiting to change the guys tyres... he was fine.
1 man Lollypop not good as they can't watch all 4 tyres at same time. I guess they will have 2 traffic lights spaced a little apart so drivers can see or maybe something on steering wheel?
Renault should just pull the plug on them. How much crap are they prepared to take and the season has not even started yet?
Possibly.... They really should have stuck it out with Honda rather than becoming another customer team. Chances of fighting for a title from there is fairly slim. Time will tell though I guess.
Well the Honda is running, but no one knows until we see proper performance runs. Not great news if Horner is telling the truth about Renault though. There is always the risk McLaren have messed up BUT much depends on the 2021 regs. By the time Honda deliver race winning engines, they might have completely new rules, so I can see why McLaren signed the 3 year customer deal until they know the next regs as they can be on podiums and gain sponsorship.
Alonso had his fastest time cut as he jumped the last chicane to avoid Hartley. On supersofts he was over 2 secs slower than that front group who were on mediums, which included the works Renault. Concerned much? Okay, its early days but that must be a disappointing day for them.
I think both had to split. It just working for either side and Mac would have lost Alonso if Honda had stayed, they are taking a gamble that he will stay on past this season otherwise they could be made to look like a right bunch of mugs.
Honestly I think with track temps, the tyres and times are all over the place. The weather could make a mockery of the testing schedule unless they extend into the weekend when it gets warmer.
please log in to view this image All the best laid plans... car looks great, paint job and lighting don to make it look like it flows and some goon stands far right of pic and nobody crops him out. simply put the teams are actually hiding features of their cars cos they look **** now. The shark fin on this pic is seriously blended into lighting so the body of the car looks like it flows The blue striping... the rear wing. Front wing not so much lol. side pods fiddly add ons completely hidden. The halo is most hidden as a monstrosity in this angle too. who is that gimp?
The introduction of the halo head protection system was inevitably one of the talking points of the start of testing, with most drivers saying much the same thing - they didn’t particularly like the aesthetics, but it didn’t affect visibility, and it was just a bit harder to get in and out. Renault’s Carlos Sainz did, though, come up with a new observation after driving in the rain in the afternoon. “When it started raining a bit, you could not see the rain on the visor. The halo was not allowing the rain drops to go in the visor so you could not really see if it was raining a lot, (just) feeling it in your hands. "This kind of rain that sometimes to us drivers really bother us as you don’t know if you can push 100% or not, you just had to guess it and see how much rain it was, as our visor was completely dry and outside it was raining - a bit tricky there.” ..... sort of interesting. expect some spins in changeable conditions then.
Apparently Pirelli anticipating the tyres being 2 seconds per lap quicker this year. Not sure if that is based on a like for like compound comparison?
