Winter Testing Thread!

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Metar
As could Hamilton, most likely, everywhere in spain. Why raise up an old point from the dead?
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And I never said he couldnt. I was just pointing out that it was not a very good post.
 
Super Agurri have cancelled a test session.

I'm seriously concerned that the underdogs, who everyone seems to love, won't make it to Australia in 4 weeks time.
 
Lets all have a whip round and buy them out :D
 
I guess no one wants have a team who will be using Honda's last year's car...

But consider how awesome Super Aguri were last year, you'd think someone would come to their rescue.
 
its nice to see him think that BMW are some how sandbagging , and are close to McMerc's pace
 
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its nice to see him think that BMW are some how sandbagging , and are close to McMerc's pace
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I strongly doubt it, he only thinks that because Renault's speed is nowhere BMW's, and BMW's speed is nowhere near Mclaren, and it seems that Mclaren is behind Ferrari as well...

The BMW looks extremely aggressive, yes, but from the tests, I've got more reason to believe Red Bull or Williams will be first behind Ferrari and Mclaren...
 
hey guys, look what i stumbled upon some time ago. This guy is Spanish (presumably), and he takes his TV camera to the F1 tests! No one seems to object to it, and because the picture is TV quality as is the sound, it's definately something to keep you occupied with until Australia! Oh and one more thing, there is no music in ANY of his F1 testing recordings - just pure F1 V8 at its finest...:drool:

Here's the 5-part recording of yesterday's testing action at Circuit de Catalunya (25/02/08). (the sound does go a tad out of sync, but it's no big deal)





 
Many thanks nitro! 👍

On that, it's only 2 weeks untill Melbourne, tests are about to end in Barcelona. Trulli did a nice job there today, along with Coulthard, though they probably have been testing on low fuel, and the faster cars were probably testing on long distances with a heavy tank. But still, it's nice to see those names high up there.

The RB4 has surprised me to be honest, as well the FW30, though the newest BMW was dissapointing in the test period, along with Toyota and Renault. I can't wait how things will go at Melbourne, without any traction control...
 
The first race will be interesting for sure.Especially the start and slower final corners at Albert Park. I've walked round the track when it wasn't in use and it surprised me how thin the S/F straight is compared to how it looks on tv
 
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The first race will be interesting for sure.Especially the start and slower final corners at Albert Park. I've walked round the track when it wasn't in use and it surprised me how thin the S/F straight is compared to how it looks on tv
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Have you?

Hmm, this leads me to a very interesting question and something I have been wondering about for some time now;

How is a track compared to normal roads or a highway? Is it really that wide as it looks on TV? Sometimes the track looks so small because of the space they might be using, but I've only been at Spa once, which I cannot really remember so good since I was a little boy and today's Spa is completely different from the new Spa...
 
Spa always looked rather narrow to me, which is logical considering it used to be bits of Belgian highway, and most likely retained some of that character.

The TilkeDromes seem massive, though. I like to compare tracks to the width of a car, and in that aspect, TilkeDromes are gargantuan. By the looks of it, three-abreast is reasonable through most corners there, while Spa seems narrow enough for two-car moments to appear tight.

Still seems narrower than your average eight-lane highway, or a four-lane country road...
 
Metar
Spa always looked rather narrow to me, which is logical considering it used to be bits of Belgian highway, and most likely retained some of that character.

The TilkeDromes seem massive, though. I like to compare tracks to the width of a car, and in that aspect, TilkeDromes are gargantuan. By the looks of it, three-abreast is reasonable through most corners there, while Spa seems narrow enough for two-car moments to appear tight.

Still seems narrower than your average eight-lane highway, or a four-lane country road...
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Spa isn't wide enough for Hamilton, is it?
 
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Have you?

Hmm, this leads me to a very interesting question and something I have been wondering about for some time now;

How is a track compared to normal roads or a highway? Is it really that wide as it looks on TV? Sometimes the track looks so small because of the space they might be using, but I've only been at Spa once, which I cannot really remember so good since I was a little boy and today's Spa is completely different from the new Spa...
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Basically it was in use as a normal road with chains linked between 2ft poles lining the road side as decoration. 2 laned one for each direction, obviously.
 
Metar
Spa always looked rather narrow to me, which is logical considering it used to be bits of Belgian highway, and most likely retained some of that character.
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Spa is fairly narrow, perhaps as wide as a good A-road. Sections of the modern circuit which were never highway are perhaps wider in places. Although, you can get 3 cars abreast down the Kemmel straight easily, so perhaps even those older sections have been widened at some point.

Most circuits in the UK date back as far as the 1950's when they converted disused WW2 airfields into race tracks. They are generally a mix of wide straights (that used to be runways) and more narrower sections (that were once the airfield's service roads). Modern Tilke circuits are much wider because they are purpose built. They do generally hide the speed of the cars when viewed on TV because of the relative lack of fixed structures close by to compare to.
 

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