Official Pre-season testing thread

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BamalamaFizzVaj said:
i don't see why anything that adds skill requirements and strategy to the race is a bad thing. If you remove the need for drivers to manage their pace at various stages of the race to save tyres and/or fuel then you'll end up with even more of a procession, where everyone is just driving at or around the limits of their car for the whole race, at least the tyres mixed the running order up a bit throughout last year, and required teams to try different things.
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I don't disagree with that at all... Strategy should be part of getting to the end of a race, but it shouldn't be the thing that dictates the race and prevents racing. There has to be a a balance.
 
Watching drivers not race so they can save their tyres is always a turn off. Tyre management is a skill, but cars driving around 2s apart to save tyres is plain silly.
 
BrightLampShade:6162972 said:
Watching drivers not race so they can save their tyres is always a turn off. Tyre management is a skill, but cars driving around 2s apart to save tyres is plain silly.
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And then Bernie blames Vettel for dwindling viewing figures rather than the lack of racing.
 
BamalamaFizzVaj said:
i don't see why anything that adds skill requirements and strategy to the race is a bad thing. If you remove the need for drivers to manage their pace at various stages of the race to save tyres and/or fuel then you'll end up with even more of a procession, where everyone is just driving at or around the limits of their car for the whole race, at least the tyres mixed the running order up a bit throughout last year, and required teams to try different things.
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Are you for real? Driving around a RACE track at 50km an hour is skill? Wow. This is not a snail's race. The quick fall off of tyres make races feel like crap. Imagine Ferrari running around a track and can't pass a force India because he used up all his tyres trying to catch Red Bull.... There is one word for that...crap! That's the reward he gets for trying...jelly bean boots...that's crap! The best way to enjoy those type of battles is pray for a safety car.
 
There are lots of things wrong with the rules that restrict the racing, especially in regard to tyres, the lack of any real tyre strategy annoys the **** out of me, the optimum strategy with a open tyre choice will probably be different driver to driver, and if they could mix up the compounds from wheel to wheel even better, the tyre strategies of yesteryear produced some great climaxes to races, with soft shod chargers hunting down hard shod plodders, it happens on the odd occasion now, generally early in the season, but was far more frequent when tyres choices were open.
 
You fools... Renault and RBR have pulled off the mother of all Rope-A-Dopes!
Vettel to bag Pole by about 2secs at Melbourne and to lap the entire field at least once..

#youhearditherefirst
 
dhel said:
Are you for real? Driving around a RACE track at 50km an hour is skill? Wow. This is not a snail's race. The quick fall off of tyres make races feel like crap. Imagine Ferrari running around a track and can't pass a force India because he used up all his tyres trying to catch Red Bull.... There is one word for that...crap! That's the reward he gets for trying...jelly bean boots...that's crap! The best way to enjoy those type of battles is pray for a safety car.
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ok you sound upset, but again we will see, it's easy to complain when the result is not what you want. I wonder how many will be complaining if this year the supposed "racing" is almost entirely dictated by engine power and reliability.
 
BamalamaFizzVaj said:
ok you sound upset, but again we will see, it's easy to complain when the result is not what you want. I wonder how many will be complaining if this year the supposed "racing" is almost entirely dictated by engine power and reliability.
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I agree we could see very limited racing unless Hamilton and Rosberg battle the crap out of each other during the early stages so the rest may catch up.

(After 5-6 laps)

There goes Mercedes *10 seconds later* and Williams, McLaren and Force India *15 seconds later* Here comes Alonso and Kimi as the best of the non Mercedes engines. *10 seconds later* And Sauber followed by Marussia *30 seconds later* here comes the Renault battle, oh wait it seems as if all of them are going to retire bar Caterham.

So I bet in about 8-9 laps we will see one of the Mercedes lap a Renault engine on Merit on being much faster. Other than that I can only see a battle between Williams, Force India and McLaren, the rest will be very divided in performance that you will very likely see more blue flag overtakes than actual DRS ones.
 
The debate continues

Tobias Grüner F1 ‏@tgruener 7m
@andrewbensonf1 We saw it ourself from the pitwall: Lewis was on supersoft. Mercedes confirmed it today. Looks like a Pirelli mistake.
 
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