F1 2022 thread - see post 1 for rules

The Haas has some interesting looking details.

Not sure about that. The shakedown rule for the past few years was teams are allowed 100km between the two cars at a track of their choosing, generic non race tyres and no aero rakes or other advanced telemetry devices.

Williams and Mercedes-Benz chose Silverstone, Ferrari and Alfa Romero chose Fioroanno, not sure where the rest of them were.

Haas may have chosen Barcelona.

The 100km is a filming day which they can use for promotions and marketing. The teams have used it for shakedown purposes because it suits them. Most have done their filming days already. That was the photos we saw of them running during the last week or so.

This year, Bahrain bought the exclusive TV rights for testing. But the teams wanted a test in Barcelona like normal. So they gave the teams the 3 (think it's 3) day test in Barcelona but they have to call it something other than a test because Bahrain bought the rights. So this is exactly the same as a test but it's called a shakedown and they don't allow traditional media coverage and don't publish live timing.

It's a test but not called a test for contractual reasons.

So no car reveals today then?

When are Alpine and whoever else is left Alfa is it revealing there cars?

Thank you. Looking forward to seeing there car. I hope it has something neat and unique like the Ferrari and is not boring like the Merc.

Yes it being fast would be good too but I heard they were having problems with the new fuel mix. Hopefully that is just all false.

The rules don't explicitly ban aero rakes or advanced telemetry devices but the exact words do very clearly state that these runs should be "purely for marketing or promotional purposes" - you'd think the use of such devices would be a breach of that rule since they run entirely contrary to the use of the footage for marketing or promotional purposes and only serve as an effort to use the promotional day as a test session. Maybe it'd be better to ban these filming days until after the first race of the season, or limit them to something like 5km which is still plenty of distance to get the shots they need for their sponsors.

Alpine just revealed the FIA show car on stage with renders of the actual car. 😬

I like that very much.

That BWT chap looks like a villain you would see in a James Bond film.

The pink and blue are a bit mad together. But shur, everyone has to make a crust. The blue is nice again though.

What's the story with that?

Otmar is fond of the pink

How are Alpine running two liveries. Didn’t McLaren have to get an exemption for the Gulf livery last year. And I thought those exemptions could only be granted for one race in the year.