F1 Testing 2016: Week 1 Barcelona (22nd - 25th)

SS-89 said:
Looking good for what? Setting a full lap time or the time itself? The latter is irrelevant at this stage (it's 4 seconds down on the fastest qualifying lap from last years spanish gp 1:24.681).
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It's 1 second off their own fastest time in qualifying from last year though.
Still relatively meaningless, but might indicate at least some progress might be being made at this early stage. Not difficult to improve on last year's horror show however :p

utajoker said:
Also why sky sports don't broadcast this i don't know, they have a dedicated f1 channel...
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They would if they were allowed.
 
Shimmy said:
It's 1 second off their own fastest time in qualifying from last year though.
Still relatively meaningless, but might indicate at least some progress might be being made at this early stage. Not difficult to improve on last year's horror show however :p



They would if they were allowed.
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why aren't they allowed?
 
utajoker said:
whats the weather like?

the autosport site is saying ricciardo is on inters...

Also why sky sports don't broadcast this i don't know, they have a dedicated f1 channel...
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I think their stupid reasoning is if they provide coverage... they need content. The fans want like maybe 4-5 cameras, pit lane, main straight, 2-3 interesting corners or complex of corners on youtube, f1 site, anywhere. What FIA think we want is Simon/Ted/Hill/shorty talking rubbish for 10 hours in a row with lots of segments to fill the time.... which would cost a bomb and take a lot of work. What we actually want, some basic streams, would cost next to nothing and even if put behind their crappy subscription services(f1 access or whatever) I'd take it for a month to see it.


It showered about an hour before testing started, track opened wet but marginally, it was just inters conditions but not standing water or anything, just a bit damp and cold early in the morning. They've been on dry tires for quite a while now. Supposed to be okay weather all 4 days but the odd shower wouldn't be a surprise.
 
smr said:
why aren't they allowed?
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I think they also like to make excuses about teams not being happy with it. Reality is teams pay expensive photographers to sit around the track and get every kind of possible angle/shot on all their rivals as possible so video won't change anything.

Reality is not many people would be interested in paying for testing, if 10mil watched Australia then 50k might want to watch testing, if that, and they think they need to do big expensive coverage because as usual they are entirely out of touch with what the fans want.

This guys video, in high def, stabilised and on the other side of the fence at several corners is all we need. We don't need cameras tracking, there won't be big overtakes, we really just want to see the cars and hear them, get an idea of who is pushing, who isn't. Which cars look good, which don't, which look stable which look a handful. You can do all that without commentary, without helicopter views, with static cameras and a basic internet feed.
 
smr said:
why aren't they allowed?
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FOM hold the rights to all broadcasting of live F1.

Sky don't film the races, FOM do. Its a single FOM provided global feed that Sky (and every other broadcaster) then commentate over. The agreement they have with the teams is that testing is not broadcast.
 
smr said:
Fair enough, can't complain anyway can we, this guys video feed has made my day.

and got Ted's video later to look forward to :cool:
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look forward to? Honestly Ted before what 2013, good ted, since then, bad Ted.

This morning he was tweeting and saying stuff like Lewis looks more upset(both drivers looked pretty miserable) and this was a crucial day for him to get used to the car. Banging on about the end of last season's form when he had won and was off drinking and jet setting around. He's part of the new Sky, focus on drama, ignore technical coverage, maintain that any technology is too complicated and any rules or penalties are too complicated. Sky/Ted have gone massively downhill.

Jesus, that debate format crap they were doing last year, where two guys on the sky team take opposite sides of what is usually a stupid drama based debate and argue for a couple of minutes. Genuinely pathetic.

Ted used to spend 30 mins showing as many pics as possible of new parts on cars, now it's 1 minute of that and 29 minutes of finding rich people to talk to, creating drama out of nothing and making remarks about women.
 
smr said:
He just had that question posed to him... as he says "you cant see any details on the car anyway, we're just listening to them" which is correct... but I'm not sure FIA/FOM would like it anyway!
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What he is doing is going to be in breach of the ticket conditions so they could throw him out regardless.
 
smr said:
From trackside, Ben Anderson reports that Grosjean's Haas has just passed him slowly, minus a front wing.
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McLaren have just gone faster than their Qualifying time from last year's Spanish GP, just.
 
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