It's all part of El Plan 👌

Aston Martin only completed 334 laps across the 6 days of testing in Bahrain. That's 252 laps fewer than the next lowest team, Cadillac.

One can only hope Red Bull's season goes better than their promo events!

Post testing, pre-season predictions (that are usually way off)

Best cars to worst -

Mercedes

Ferrari

McLaren

Red Bull

Haas

Alpine

Racing Bulls

Williams

Audi

Aston Martin

Cadillac

WDC - George Russell

2nd - Leclerc

TV direction/graphics in for a whole load of pain this season trying to keep up with all this whilst providing viewers with the relevant information.

Official announcement following US-Iran war

Bahrain test cancelled.

Australian GP will go ahead.

Didn't know there was another test scheduled anyway!

Be interesting to see if the race there (+ Saudi) go ahead.

Imagine thinking we'd ever see something worse than the 3 shitboxes from the 2010 season...

They had a great first half of 2023, but not sure Aston have really shown much that their predecessor Force India team didn't despite Stroll's money into it. I find it quite funny that one team who've got it hopelessly wrong to start with are them tbh, I wonder what Alonso is thinking, hasn't stayed in F1 this long at this age to be retiring from the slowest car on the grid!

Looking at F1 from a betting perspective, I like Stroll to beat Alonso over the season at 7/2. Was tempted by a flutter on Leclerc world champion but the odds have shortened a little too far now.

Could we get possible replacements if Bahrain and Saudi Arabia get cancelled?

17 minutes ago, Mack said:

Could we get possible replacements if Bahrain and Saudi Arabia get cancelled?

Way too late to rearrange now I'd have thought. Also they raced in Bahrain back in 2012 amid mass unrest so wouldn't put it past them to turn another blind eye again all in the name of $$$.

1 hour ago, Mack said:

Could we get possible replacements if Bahrain and Saudi Arabia get cancelled?

Turkey would be the obvious candidate but the logistics of doing it with fans potentially attending there is quite different to under Covid lockdown.

Also if they're going to cancel the Russian GP over illegal wars of aggression then there's at least another 3 weekends spare in North America...