[smr2018test]
The first pre-season test of 2018 wrapped up yesterday at the Circuit de Catalunya. Here’s a special bonus gallery of new pictures from the first test of the year.
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More pictures from the season-opening test:
- 2018 F1 season testing in pictures: Circuit de Catalunya day one
- 2018 F1 season testing in pictures: Circuit de Catalunya day two
- 2018 F1 season testing in pictures: Circuit de Catalunya day three
- 2018 F1 season testing in pictures: Circuit de Catalunya day four
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2018 F1 season
- McLaren staff told us we were “totally crazy” to take Honda engines in 2018 – Tost
- ‘It doesn’t matter if we start last’: How Red Bull’s junior team aided Honda’s leap forward
- Honda’s jet division helped F1 engineers solve power unit problem
- McLaren Racing losses rise after Honda split
- Ricciardo: Baku “s***show” was Red Bull’s fault
Trayambak Chakravarty (@major-dev)
2nd March 2018, 16:43
That Alfa Romeo behind looks glorious in all its pictures! Amazing what some vintage lettering can do…
Duncan Snowden
2nd March 2018, 21:06
Doesn’t it? I’m getting flashbacks to the Brabham-Alfas. But is anyone else already confusing it with the Williams from other angles?
Jeanrien (@jeanrien)
2nd March 2018, 16:48
I really like the Renault paint job, how it looks almost exclusively yellow from the front with some black lines and the opposite when look at from the side. Cleverly done.
Glad to see more diversity in the liveries in general.
I am already disappointed about TV commentary which will focus on the halo for the first races while I already accepted it. Not the best looking thing to add to a F1 car but far easier to accept than the platypus noses (and better reason to introduce it as well). Hopefully, the commentators will give their opinion once and for all at the beginning of the season and then leave it be but I fear it won’t be…
Luke Harrison
4th March 2018, 19:51
Well, the reason for the halo and the noses are pretty similar. Both safety driven. The only difference is the teams have no scopes to make the halo’s look worse.
AliceD (@aliced)
2nd March 2018, 17:02
I will be the first and say the halo is growing on me. The ferrari top picture looks cool. It is like the halo increases my perception of the size of the car. It makes the car look a lot bigger to me. This years cars look massive and the driver especially in the top Ferrari pic looks tiny, I like that a lot. And in the other pictures it looks kind of like angel wings from a certain angle, keeping the driver safe. I think they halo could evolve into something everyone can agree looks cool given enough time.
Apexor
2nd March 2018, 19:50
Snow day in Catalunya, the kids gets to stay home for a day.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
2nd March 2018, 21:30
Caption for the Gasly pic: no words, just a loud ripping sound.
rpiian (@rpiian)
2nd March 2018, 22:51
Silent but deadly type.
Mashiat (@mashiat)
2nd March 2018, 21:37
I didn’t realize before now that McLaren had trialled fairings on the halo.