Poll: F1 2022 - Pre-season testing and discussion

Who will win the 2022 Formula 1 constructor's title ?

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Slam62 said:
Lol how do you think they design the cars, back of a fag packet or oh let's guess supercomputer with the latest cfd software doing hundreds of design iterations, of course they model the flow at the back of the car.
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Of course they model it using CFD for car design; they don't do it in the simulator. It's far too complex to be done in real time, not to mention that CFD time is limited for the teams.

Entai said:
Although Lando is the only one suggesting the car feels rather loose at the back, like an F2 compared to last years F1.
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Is he? I thought I read quite a few drivers saying the same. Actually, that's one of the things I'm hopefully for: if these cars are more of a handful to drive, we should see more mistakes.

The only thing I would add is that the simulators are only running car models so far, none of that data has been corroborated or calibrated against real world data, which could change a lot of parameters quite considerably.
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Good point.
 
Ferrari have been testing their 2021 car with modifications at Fiorano.

Due to the massive change in regs the rule of only testing a car 2 years or older no longer applies, as the previous season cars are deemed “old”.
 
EVH said:
Ferrari have been testing their 2021 car with modifications at Fiorano.

Due to the massive change in regs the rule of only testing a car 2 years or older no longer applies, as the previous season cars are deemed “old”.
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Interesting, are there regs on how modified it can be?
 
Was unsure where this belongs as I didn’t think it deserved its own thread. While we are waiting for the season to kick off again, have people seen this persons series of season reviews? Quite impressive editing and a great watch. What struck me is how much Hamilton was a less a clean racer back in 2016 and how unreliable the Mercs were back in 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWyQY_4kLg
Edit you have to watch it on YouTube
 
JRS said:
Careful. In my experience, you remind people about that sort of thing and you get yelled at by about a thousand Hamilton fangirls ;)
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I’m a Hamilton fanboy, doesn’t mean you can’t revisit history and appreciate how much someone has improved:o

Also some subtle reminders Max hasn’t learnt about how to race either :p Jokes aside watched another two of them this afternoon great viewing.
 
Rumours that Red Bull have yet to announce their launch date as their car has failed it's frontal crash test and another rumour that Mercedes have failed the side impact test but went a little bit extreme and had a more conservative option available as they were developed concurrently.
 
We have it on good authority that that is fake news, there was a similar rumour for merc about a side impact test, said test doesn't exist.
 
Lewis is back. Not seen it mentioned anywhere but it’s been posted on the Merc twitter for a few days now :p
 
cuke2u said:
Kinda different scenario this year..
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Doesn't that make it even more likely that the teams will bring revised packages to the first race? Learning from testing is surely the point. Although I suppose this year there's a very short time between the 2nd test and the first race, so some teams might be bringing that package to Saudi or Australia instead.
 
Another slightly random thing I noticed. Albon can't currently enter as a Thai driver as Thailand are banned from entering World championships over drug testing failures (although they are appealing). I wonder whether he'll run a British flag this year or something else?
 
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