Pre-season testing is infamously hard to decipher and usually ends up in fans, pundits and the media jumping to conclusions that are, more often than not, totally wrong. As you can see from this quiz, the car ending testing on top has very rarely proved to be on top when the lights go out for … Continue reading Let’s act like we know what’s going on in testing: 2021 edition
It's that time of year again. The teams have packed up in Barcelona and now prepare for the long haul to Melbourne for the season-opener. Meanwhile, the rest of us try to figure out who was 'sandbagging', who was doing 'glory runs', who's worried about their reliability and who's quietly confident. Let me pose some … Continue reading Let’s act like we know what’s going on in testing: 2020 edition
In this post I will, for the most part, stick with my modus operandi of not granting the 2019 F1 testing times too much significance. But it's no fun to entirely ignore them so let's allow ourselves to read a little into them, especially when it comes to the headline news of the front-runners. Let … Continue reading Let’s act like we know what’s going on in testing, pt. 2
Every F1 publication will at this point deliver the usual caveat of pre-season testing times being unreliable, misleading and generally useless for forming opinions...and then proceed to do so anyway. In this post, I will attempt to stick to things that we can hopefully establish from this first week of 2019 F1 testing. (And then … Continue reading Let’s act like we know what’s going on in testing, pt. 1
