The test is on. We're in the car, on the way to the track. We've got some insight. That's right, it's in-car.

Insights. I'm Ed Strawer in the car with me as Scott Mitchell Mm and John Noble in the back. Yep, John say hello from the back. Hello from the back. Excellent. Hopefully that picked you up. Yep, we're on our way. Testing has begun or is about to begin as we record in about an hour and... Is it 9 o'clock? It's not at 10 o'clock. I've forgotten already. really. I'm assuming it starts at nine. It will surprise it will surprise now i'm assuming nine i'm assuming nine so it starts in an hour and 40 minutes as we're

trundling down the road and nearish to our hotel yeah we're here first um in-cut insights of the

the season itself i count the first proper test as that um ed how excited are you driving to this test versus when you were driving to Barcelona when you went out there a couple weeks ago?

I would be slightly more excited if I hadn't been above what seemed to be a particularly thumping nightclub last night, which didn't make sleeping great.

But other than that, no, really, really just interested to be able to watch the cars in

person up close and start to understand a bit more from the outside, the driving styles,

how they perform, how they look, how they sound.

Yeah, we've got a packed morning to get through.

When we get there, we've got to get your past. John and I, because you were lazy and didn't bother turning up to me yesterday, even John and I got our passes yesterday. John's just informed me from the back is a 10 a.m. start. So that's pretty good. John, if I hand my microphone back to you because we're working on a two-mic strategy with three people, which is always risky, you had a thumping nightclub experience, didn't you, on your first night in our hotel, but was it because you were raving too

heavily? No, I think there is basically two sides to the hotel. One side, which sounds like the

best side called the sea view, which vaguely has a sea view, but unfortunately has the

thumping nightclub on floor 4 which the sound just

booms up the side of the hotel and into the windows so i had to move because it was so noisy

i've moved to the city view which doesn't sound as good actually is nice and peaceful and pretty quiet

so i suggest ed straw moves rooms tonight yeah oh that's the first horn interjection that was going on there on the other side of the road.

That was the hotel owner of Furious of the notion that you need to change rooms.

Yes, well I shall be maybe requesting a change later because we don't spend a huge amount of time looking out the window and enjoying the view.

No, it's a...

Testing is a particularly extreme example of going to an F1 race and not needing an accommodation

that offers a particularly impressive vista because it is basically get back, sleep, recharge,

go again first thing in the morning.

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