F1 2024 Pre-Season Testing Thread

[tifosi1993]

[mihirshah28186]

How are the tires allocated for each team?

[tifosi1993]

I know it's early days and all, but this is looking really good. Not the lap time, but the fact that Charles is able to go quicker in each lap on this current C3 tyres, when the track is baking hot and nowhere near the idle race condition.

The SF24 is the fastest car right now through turns 11-12 and out of turn 10.

[mihirshah28186]

Any link to watch it online?

[Aviamata]

Aston look very strong , the car turning well . Even more stable than Red Bull

[Kyss4k]

We seem to have some issues with brakes or something? Locking up every single lap.

[Rishu]

Steering input can give a good indication about the car on medium-high speed corners. Ferrari, AM look good, Alpine looks handful

[Aviamata]

Mercedes either sandbagging or W15 is bad

[Aviamata]

Here come Merc hybrid system. They should have been the team to be trolled instead of Ferrari .

[tifosi1993]

The difference is night and day compared to the SF23. SF24 is much more responsive and stable, and looks like the traction prowess of the F1-75 is back.

Top speed is also good.

[Greig]

For day 1 this looks so much better than last pre-season.

[Kyss4k]

That freaking Red Bull looks in a different league. Every other car is bouncing over the bumps on the main straight while the lemonade car just glides over them, like they aren't even there... What the hell. It was nice to seem them struggle at the begining though, maybe they have a car that will be hard to set up right.

[Aviamata]

Alonso long run pace is quite similar to Charles

[tifosi1993]

Alonso long run pace is quite similar to Charles

Charles was faster

[tifosi1993]

That freaking Red Bull looks in a different league. Every other car is bouncing over the bumps on the main straight while the lemonade car just glides over them, like they aren't even there... What the hell. It was nice to seem them struggle at the begining though, maybe they have a car that will be hard to set up right.

Even the RB is bouncing and looked quite unstable when it was running the C2 tyre.

What we are seeing here is mechanical bouncing, not aero bouncing, aka the porpoising. Jolyon pretty much said the same right now on F1TV.

[patrese86]

I can't even remember testing last season but I imagine I was convincing myself the car looked good

[Aviamata]

Sainz's setup bouncing so violently

[jgonzalesm6]

What we are seeing here is mechanical bouncing, not aero bouncing, aka the porpoising.

I've seen F1 cars bouncing for 2 reasons:

1) Porpoising due to the aero underneath the car stalling in the rear part of the car.
2) Bumps on the road.

Mechanical bouncing? That's a new one to me! What's the direct cause of mechanical bouncing other than the 2 reasons I just gave.

[FerrariF60]

Ferrari raking behind the halo outlet / s duct outlet area

https://i.imgur.com/IiV7rhk.png

[Kyss4k]

Porpoising is pretty much gone for every team now. That'S not an issue. The bumps though... Watched onboards and the helmets of the drivers and while others were bouncing quite a bit (Mercedes and McLaren was quite huge) Red Bull looked really weirdly smooth there. Our car seems stiffly sprung as well. Even heard that mentioned during broadcast.

[ntukza]

2022 pre-season testing was our best in a long time. We looked on par and possibly better than RB (until Binotto messed up our season). It's obviously still early days but RB seem to be clearly ahead again, which is a bit disappointing.

[Kyss4k]

2022 pre-season testing was our best in a long time. We looked on par and possibly better than RB (until Binotto messed up our season). It's obviously still early days but RB seem to be clearly ahead again, which is a bit disappointing.

"A bit"?

[jgonzalesm6]

It's obviously still early days but RB seem to be clearly ahead again, which is a bit disappointing.

Did you see 3rd air intake on the RB? It's besides the end of the Halo besides Max's helmet. Very interesting.

[Aviamata]

Damn RB is appoarching 2023 pole

[Rishu]

Ferrari steering looks super smooth, balance looks good. I hope we have good top speed to compliment this

[Kyss4k]

Did you see 3rd air intake on the RB? It's besides the end of the Halo besides Max's helmet. Very interesting.

I'm so looking forward to Max forgetting it's there and clogs it up with his tear off

[Kyss4k]

Holy —- these times I've got a bad feeling about this.

[Aziz]

Holy Jesus these times I've got a bad feeling about this.

1.140 faster, dear God, the gap will be larger than last year

[Kyss4k]

1.140 faster, dear God, the gap will be larger than last year

The worst thing is it's 1,5s faster than fastest lap last year in the first session.

[jgonzalesm6]

I'm so looking forward to Max forgetting it's there and clogs it up with his tear off