2026 Pre-Season Testing

[ScottB]

Aston Martin have either paid for this level of puff piece or the commentary crew are just biased as all hell; oh it's so bad, they've tried so hard, Lawrence is a great man, what a racing Dad he is...

[motobaleno]

Auto Motor Und Sport had also an article about this... incomprehensible!

The only explanation I can think of for this is that the overtake mode is completely useless, and they think it could work if instead of more power at the middle of the straight the car behind gets 100-150 kW extra right at the beginning.

Davidson was saying they will test a 350 kW superclip (right now limited to 250 kW). I think they are just exploring various options to tweak the format.

Increasing superclip to 350 kW would make it easier to fill the battery in tracks like Monza.

I wonder what will thrust the car when the ICU have to superclip at 350kw... In Italy we would say "energy has a hard head" it has this annoying tendency of cannot being created from nothing

[FittingMechanics]

The only explanation I can think of for this is that the overtake mode is completely useless, and they think it could work if instead of more power at the middle of the straight the car behind gets 100-150 kW extra right at the beginning.

Davidson was saying they will test a 350 kW superclip (right now limited to 250 kW). I think they are just exploring various options to tweak the format.

Increasing superclip to 350 kW would make it easier to fill the battery in tracks like Monza.

I wonder what will thrust the car when the ICU have to superclip at 350kw... In Italy we would say "energy has a hard head" it has this annoying tendency of cannot being created from nothing

350 kW from ICE will charge the battery - it's like you lifted off the throttle and are coasting.

[McFAN]

No sub 1:33 times yet today.

[McFAN]

No sub 1:33 times yet today.

LEC just did a 1:32.65

[F1ern]

Leclerc 32:655 on used tyres according to LT.

[ali623]

Lecler 32:655 on used tyres according to LT.

Locked up on his first push lap attempt, that was his second attempt.

[motobaleno]

Lecler 32:655 on used tyres according to LT.

I dont't konw if used but for sure not perfect since he aborted previous lap because of a little flatspot

[JRodrigues]

Bortoleto seems to be doing a nice race sim (compared to the "midfield" teams)

[McFAN]

NOR seemingly at the start of a race sim.

[FrukostScones]

Bortoleto seems to be doing a nice race sim (compared to the "midfield" teams)

yes looked good , but he was on a three stop race strategy, opposed to Bearman or Lindblad.

lets ee what he can do on the quarry run now.

[nitrotech]

Max is half a second down in sector 2, relative to Leclerc on their hot laps! Not once, but multiple times on same tyres

[Paa]

Well, I did not expect to see 1.31.xxx laptime.

[motobaleno]

31.9 leclerc? what tyres? they seem yellow to me...are not c4 the black ones?

[F1ern]

Must be C4