Actually, Canada 2010 was the ground Bernie had used for tires with more degradation, exactly the ones we watch now.

Canada did have supersoft and soft last year, not sure what they're going with this year yet. Should be interesting at Monaco. I think given that the temperature will be much cooler than it was at Bahrain, it might be the equivalent of how softs and mediums performed at Bahrain.

Oh, and yes, GET RID OF THAT FUCKING CHICANE.

This.

And that is all.

The circuit is great. It always has been. Its just that F1 doesn't suit it.

No rain for the race weekend. Not many races at Barcelona have been wet...anyone know which ones were?

1996......


Errrrrrr......

Still, 1996 was wet enough for a lifetime

McLaren
It was very late on Thursday night last week - so late, in fact, that many of the press-corps had already departed the scene - at Mugello that the MP4-27 first appeared out on track with a radically-different nose design. Although not quite as abrupt as the 'boxer's nose' concept that the rest of the field, with the exception of Marussia, have been running this season, the new looks feature a far higher front profile with a raised tip and a noticeably less pronounced curve.

Martin Whitmarsh has subsequently confirmed that the team plan on running the new design in practice on Friday and, if approved by Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, absent in Italy last week, it will remain on the car for Sunday.

Ferrari
The team almost all eyes on will be on this Friday. The impression, endorsed by Fernando Alonso, that the upgrades introduced at Mugello last week - featuring repackaged bodywork and new exhaust outlets -

were small rather than substantial has only ratcheted up focus on the F2012 this week. The car wheeled out for practice on Friday is expected to be strikingly different from the version seen so far this season, with rumours rife that Ferrari are intent on copying the rear of the Sauber and turning the F2012 into a 'Ferrauber' (a difficult-to-pronounce assimiliation of the Ferrari and Sauber).

Lotus

i asked grosjean and he was far more polite but still said 'a few bits and pieces but i can't say any more than that'

Marussia - new front wing and new rear suspension. Pull-rod rear suspension.

Force India - Front wing changes. Dropping the black bar on the tip of nose. Different pillar shapes. New exhaust system. Much like McLarens.

Now that the European season is upon us, we should be able to bring through more updates to the car. That will start this weekend when we run with some of the new parts we evaluated in Mugello last week. However, we have to remember that most teams will make a development step for Barcelona so it remains to be seen how this will impact on our relative performance

Toro Rosso - McLaren exhaust.

Sauber - exhaust tweaks. New front wing.

Williams - new exhaust. New rear wing.