What’s going to be different in Barcelona?
With four races down F1 is set to return to it’s european stomping ground, it’s where the teams traditionally all bring big upgrades from the final stages of development and the lessons that they have learnt over the flyaway races. Expect all of the big names to have some improvements that may shake up the pecking order – though that needs little change this year.
Mercedes have the most to gain and Red Bull the most to lose but I’d expect McLaren to come out a little faster, they seem to have the best development of all the teams based on past history and they have a stronger base this year – though perhaps that will mean they have less to work with.
I’d expect to see the biggest changes in the mid-field, Williams will be keen to see some improvements as will Renault and Force India. Sauber need some reliability and a double finish would ease their worries and give them some hope that they may yet score points. All of these teams will make gains but a small difference goes a long way in F1 these days and a tenth extra could be enough to put a car ahead a few place of the grid.
The new teams will all be hoping that the data they have gathered so far has given them enough insight into their cars to make some big steps forward and perhaps close on the back of the established teams. HRT Cosworth will be hoping that they can simply improve the setup and handling of their cars – which unlike any of the other teams haven’t run on the Barcelona circuit yet.
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