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The Race F1 Podcast

Testing Day 4: Is Alfa Romeo really that fast?

The Race F1 Podcast

The Race Media Ltd

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4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Gary Anderson joins Edd Straw to review the first day of the second F1 test, including explaining why Alfa Romeo is fastest, how mighty Mercedes looks and what hints of pace we saw from Red Bull and Ferrari.


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0:00.0

The race is on and the season gets ever closer with the first day of the second pre-season

0:13.2

tests already in the books. We've seen a lot more miles, heard a lot more from the drivers

0:17.3

and other key players, but are we any wiser? The teams will certainly hope

0:21.2

they are, but with two more days remaining, although we haven't seen anyone lay their cards on

0:25.7

the table to really show what they can do, the picture is gradually becoming a little clearer.

0:31.5

I'm Ed Sture and joining me is Gary Anderson to try and make some sense of it all.

0:36.5

So Gary, Alpha Ramos fastest will win the World Championship. So Gary, Alpha Ramay who's fastest will win the

0:38.8

World Championship? In fact, Robert Capitza was fastest in the Alpha Romeo, which is, it's nice to

0:44.4

see, to be honest, he had a tough comeback last year with Williams, so although it's probably a little

0:49.8

bit of a glory run, and it's probably the last time you drive this weekend or this testing. So, you know, it's nice to see it. I don't think it's all really true, to be honest. But yeah, they've come a new front wing for the car. We've done an article about it, so you can go and read about it there. It's a very interesting piece. So you're not totally convinced by their direction no it wouldn't have been the direction I would have taken to try to have alleviated what I think their problem is which is the sensitivity between fast corners and low speed corners I don't think it'll gain the low speed grip the way they've done it I think they'll probably end up getting the car will be a little bit more

1:27.6

pitch sensitive. So it's a circle of events. Maybe they did it to do that to realise their

1:32.5

problem, but we'll keep an eye on it and see if anything changes there. And we also saw a new

1:37.3

diffuser for the McLaren, which we again have done an article on. So, you know, there are

1:43.5

developments coming through

1:44.5

a lot of small bits and pieces

1:46.3

Williams have got a modified front wing

1:48.1

I'd call it more than a new front wing

1:49.7

exploiting the regulations a little bit

1:51.8

which again we've done an article on so

1:53.6

it's all there

1:54.7

does it improve the car

1:56.5

you know there's still questions

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