F1 2016 pre-season testing

[iotar__]

One of the most interesting test seasons in years is coming up.

Themes to watch:

Has McHonda managed to get their act together?
Where can we expect Haas to fit in to the grid?
How about Manor - will they still be the bottom of the field?
How about Renault - can they have a decent 2016 or is it a truck?
Toro Rosso - how do they perform with Ferrari PU?

And driver themes for the regular season:
K-Mag vs Palmer?
Can Grosjean shine @Haas?
MC Hamilton vs Britney - part IV
Will we miss Maldonado?

K-Mag is sparking a lot more generel interest in F1 in Denmark. Now even the accountant girls at my workplace are discussing F1 over the lunchtable. Maybe not tech stuff but anyway...

Answers will begin to emerge in a few weeks

Personal opinion - the opposite, one of the most boring and predictable. I'd reduce themes to watch to:
- Ferrari Merc gap and McL
not expecting anything spectacular, meaning Merc in front and McL behind let's say RB

- Haas - who cares, bottom three
- Palmer vs Magnussen - draw because inexperienced drivers will be indirectly blamed for development problems after 10 races, this also answers missing Maldo part
- Rosberg - Ham - have you seen '15 circus? Hopefully Ferrari will be close enough so they won't be able to play games. Although it can work the other way with 2 drivers to 1 situation that means they already won WCC but WDC can be problematic.

I see they got rid of Jerez which answers last year's question: why keep this useless test.

[djos]

Any chance of sky covering testing?

[Vasconia]

K-Mag is sparking a lot more generel interest in F1 in Denmark. Now even the accountant girls at my workplace are discussing F1 over the lunchtable. Maybe not tech stuff but anyway...

Answers will begin to emerge in a few weeks

This is more than what Alonso has achieved during those years in my company hahahaha.

[GoranF1]

Any chance of sky covering testing?

Yes,they have no plans to run it indoors.

[djos]

Any chance of sky covering testing?

Yes,they have no plans to run it indoors.

*Groans*

[NathanOlder]

I really wish they would show it all. I mean they have 2 presenters there and a few camera's, id be happy with a static camera set up at turn 1 and turn 9 and just leave it live for the whole test.

[mclaren111]

Problem is Bernie will want a LOT of money for that

[bauc]

This is OT post, but I'm pissed off as we are only 12 days till the start of the pre-season testing and we've only seen one car so far .....

[ChrisF1]

Problem is Bernie will want a LOT of money for that

When it should be free and promoting as much as possible, even offering Channel 4 an evening highlights package for nothing just to hype up the fact that they're covering it in 2016 and get some viewer feedback.

[FrukostScones]

This is OT post, but I'm pissed off as we are only 12 days till the start of the pre-season testing and we've only seen one car so far .....

yeah, zero cars essentially;
I think even the die hard fans are now reconsidering... very quiet pre-season. YAWN!

[George-Jung]

This is OT post, but I'm pissed off as we are only 12 days till the start of the pre-season testing and we've only seen one car so far .....

So that is great, now we still have something to look forward to..

[lio007]

I hope there's some reasonable live timing.
I do really miss the days of e.g. http://www.f1tests.co.cc. That was amazing. The layout was very similar to one the teams use on the pitwall, IIRC. It's a shame that I haven't saved any screenshot.

[NathanOlder]

Yeah, loved watching the timing on my desktop at work all day.

[f1316]

Agree about the timing, it really helped get your own sense of what people were doing, over and above what the pundits are saying.

[theblackangus]

This is OT post, but I'm pissed off as we are only 12 days till the start of the pre-season testing and we've only seen one car so far .....

yeah, zero cars essentially;
I think even the die hard fans are now reconsidering... very quiet pre-season. YAWN!

What exactly are the die hard fans reconsidering?