|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
27 Aug 2009, 19:02 (Ref:2529439) | #26 | |
Rookie
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 11
|
||
|
27 Aug 2009, 19:46 (Ref:2529469) | #27 | ||
Racer
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 311
|
Portugal testing is Friday:
10.00 – 11.30 Cooper Tires British Formula 3 Int. Series Private test session 1 13.30 – 15.00 Cooper Tires British Formula 3 Int. Series Private test session 2 with qualifying on Saturday 2 half hour sessions for the 2 races on Sunday.....time to start a Portugal thread? |
||
|
27 Aug 2009, 21:25 (Ref:2529554) | #28 | |||
Ten-Tenths Hall of Fame
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 8,408
|
Quote:
10 FOTA organised tests, mostly pre-season. 10 Pre-race tests like the one referred to by Richard B (this one looks to be much longer than usual, but that's not a bad idea on a new circuit). 5 private or Joker Day tests, where teams can go off and do their own thing, but there are quite strong limits to that. You can't test on circuits where races still have to be held (e.g. Portugal), you can't test abroad, you can't test using a competent driver who will help in developing your car etc. But you can test with a rookie-type driver who wants a drive in readiness for next season and will pay for the privilege. Does that answer your question? |
|||
|
29 Aug 2009, 10:49 (Ref:2530349) | #29 | |
Rookie
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 11
|
|
|
|
30 Aug 2009, 17:04 (Ref:2531217) | #30 | ||
Ten-Tenths Hall of Fame
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 8,408
|
ziig, you obviously know something that you're not prepared to share.
One thing I would add is that my précis of the testing restrictions was based on last year's. I have since I had a look at this year's and, unless there's something I have missed somewhere, there is a massive loophole that a smart team could easily spot and take advantage of, so what you're thinking is illegal might not in fact be so. One other point: There are no restrictions at all on testing from the day following the last Series race meeting until 31 December in each year inclusive. |
||
|
31 Aug 2009, 00:45 (Ref:2531614) | #31 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 1,272
|
Strider, that is a difficult question and the honest answer is I don't know. Like you say, we've come to 'accept' Hitech antics, we don't particularly like it, but it is what it is I guess.
|
||
|
31 Aug 2009, 16:33 (Ref:2531934) | #32 | ||
Ten-Tenths Hall of Fame
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 8,408
|
|||
|
31 Aug 2009, 17:04 (Ref:2531955) | #33 | |||
Racer
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 386
|
At a time when F1 severely - excessively in my opinion - limits between-race testing in the name of controlling costs, why don't the 'development' categories follow suit?
An extreme example is the British Formula Ford Championship, surely a category that needs a 'level playing field' to allow up-and-coming drivers to display their skills and not their budgets. The 2009 BFFC Sporting Regulations place no restriction on private testing! Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
British F3 at Silverstone! | macsport | National & International Single Seaters | 20 | 18 Aug 2008 21:44 |
Silverstone F3/GT | MikeHoyer | Trackside | 8 | 21 Sep 2006 18:10 |
Silverstone F3 test | superMINI | National & International Single Seaters | 96 | 21 Apr 2004 15:46 |
Right, F3 silverstone... | sgrok | National & International Single Seaters | 106 | 30 May 2003 11:11 |
Silverstone F3/GT | Craner Curves | Trackside | 24 | 22 May 2003 06:08 |