2024-25 Off-Season and Testing ThreadFormula 1

[MagpieRacer]

Just watching the live Sky Sports YouTube channel with most of the cars running FlowViz. Seems to me that it gives away design secrets for free to other teams. I'm sure all the teams pour over spy photos of their rivals new cars and reverse engineer what they're trying to achieve, but the FlowViz pin points aerodynamic areas teams are likely concerned about on their new cars. I've always wondered why they don't use ultraviolet flow 'paint' for this. Let the car do it's run in public, then when back safely in the shuttered garage, get the UV lamps out.

I guess because they need to see how it's behaving on circuit, through corners, wind, in the wake behind other cars and so on. By the time it gets back to the garage after a slow in lap and it's been sat for a while, it might not be as useful as it runs down the bodywork.

 

[Fezzik]

Power cut at the circuit has caused a red flag in the afternoon session.

 

[Saidur_Ali]

Lights out and into the pits we go.

Going by Helmut Marko assessment, McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull have decent race pace, Ferrari are disappointing. That looks like a fair assessment to me, hopefully Ferrari are sandbagging a lot and they can turn it up, otherwise it will be a difficult season for Lewis. Will hopefully get some interviews and see what their impressions are soon.

 

[hakhan]

Lando Norris fastest for McLaren on Day One in Bahrain.

 

[RACECAR]

It feels so odd not seeing Hamilton's name next to Mercedes. This will be the hardest time I have adjusting to a driver move.