Official Pre-season testing thread

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I remember Williams stiffing everyone in pre-season a few years back, then struggling for a point for the rest of the season. I take nothing from these tests other than it looks like Renault could be having problems, but there's a while to go until lights out in Adelaide.
 
See if I was real fanboy of Vettel I could already say this season is a write off, dismiss the champion elect and bring up hypothetical situations in that 'Seb isn't only fighting Alonso or whoever, but better engines, the FIA and RENAULT THEMSELVES!' and that if Vettel had the same car he would of dominated even more. Though that story is getting a bit boring now...
lol hasn't that been the Hamilton story for the last 5 years? As i've said people seem to only care about the top spot in F1 these days, and just want the rules to be changed until their favourite driver is on it, the fact they keep changing the rules because of people complaining, just encourages people to complain more.
 
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Yeah, the wing looks fine until it hits the wall, perhaps that's what they mean by wing failure.
 
chaps, lets not forget that Vettel/Redbull have been by far the biggest beneficiaries of the last major regulation changes, they were NOWHERE before 2009!