Only in F1 there is 3 days of preseason testing to prepare a full course of at least 24 races. The teams are forbidden by regulation to film more than those three days with their new cars (except for a limited ‘filming day’ of only 100 km), something that makes every minute of 3 days of testing. Every second lost on track during these tests in Bahrain represents an enormous amount of lost data and subsequent conclusions about the car’s behavior, development path and adjustments for the season that starts next week. Therefore, Ferrari found itself in big trouble due to the manhole cover not working properly. As happened to Carlos Sainz in the Las Vegas race last year, Leclerc found himself with a cover and took it.
Lewis Hamilton stepped over a manhole cover located on the piano from the braking zone of turn 11 of the Sakhir circuit, in Bahrain, and Right after, Leclerc couldn’t avoid (Sainz rides in the afternoon).
Apparently, according to the Italian journalist Guiliano Duchessait caused damage to the new floor of the Ferrari SF24, thus forcing Ferrari to repair the car or change the floor, something that not only represents a significant economic cost for the whole in a context of maximum cost control due to budget on the roof, but may also cause them to lose time in the afternoon session if they do not arrive in time to implement said changes.
Today’s morning session 2 of the F1 2024 preseason test was stopped with one hour and 46 minutes left and finally, with one hour left, F1 announced that tomorrow’s session is over and the The remaining time is will be recovered in an afternoon session that starts one hour earlier: from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Spanish time)
Leclerc leads the morning of day 2 of F1 testing
The morning of the second day of F1 testing Charles Leclerc finished in first position at the wheel of his Ferrari with 1’31″750, but with an unrepresentative time table. Piastri (McLaren) was second at 0.578 and Sargeant (Williams), third at 0″828. Pérez was fourth on his first day at the wheel of his Red Bull RB24, at 1″129 and will continue riding this afternoon to increase his understanding of this new car which is already surprised everyone with its revolution. Meanwhile, Alonso was 5th in his Aston Martin at 1.303 and Hamilton 6th in a Mercedes that still doesn’t give any clues about its performance.
Disruption, the problem of many
He planned that Fernando Alonso will be piloting this morning and Lance Strolling the witness was taken again from the afternoon driver from Oviedo AMR24. If this continues, it means that Fernando Alonso will not be able to achieve the last time of the session, so he will lose a lot of time due to the change in the schedule of the day due to the incident in the sewer with the previous time which the attempt was made to fix that place. tracks. Two precious hours, wasted.
As in the case of Alonso, many drivers had to give the wheel of their car to their teammate, so many of them lost time, as in the case of Leclerc.
Fernando Alonso was already very critical last week for reducing tests to only 3 days in previous years, something he considered too small for drivers and teams to prepare a whole season. And this incident could take valuable time away from all the work he needs to finish this Thursday morning.
Fernando completed 77 laps in the first morning session (Wednesday) and a day later he could only do 31 because of this delay. The data is clear and conclusive about the huge impact that lost time can have. Tsunoda had the most rolls with 40, followed by Hamilton (39), Zhou (38), Leclerc (36), and Piastri (35). For his part, ‘Checo’ Pérez has only done 20 laps but will continue to ride in the afternoon, as like Hamilton he will complete a full day of testing with his car.
There is a lot of shadow work
The morning of the test was calm except for what happened in the sewer, at all teams working on the common secret of tests, without going to big times, with long runs, especially with medium tires, with full tanks of fuel and putting changes in their cars. It is very difficult to do a performance reading of cars.
This session saw Aston Martin make a change of settings to the rear of Fernando Alonso’s car and try a low-load rear wing on the subsequent long run with medium. Shadow work for everyone, including a Red Bull that showed great speed on the first day of testing and this time Pérez was the only driver focused on riding only on hard rubber for a total of 20 laps. .
Source: La Verdad
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