THE MOTORSPORT LAP
Teams iron out kinks ahead of season start
Formula One testing began in Catalunya, Spain earlier this week and Aston Martin Red Bull Racing looks strong after the first day
With the majority of Formula One teams having launched their 2018 race cars last week, this week the attention turns to the testing days in Catalunya, Spain where teams are putting in some track time to see where their respective vehicles stack up. This will also give the teams time to assess telemetry and make any final tweaks before the start of the season in Melbourne, Australia on March 25. The start of testing this past Monday saw the McLaren of Fernando Alonso, which is this season powered by Renault, have a minor crash due to a loose wheel nut, according to motorsport news site Crash.net. "It was a good day for you guys," Alonso told the media at Circuit de Catalunya. "This is a very, very small problem, but very graphic and obvious. A car in the gravel makes a big thing, but there were six teams in the garage with the door closed, with the car in pieces — but there is no picture of that. So there are a lot of teams in trouble, big trouble, and for us with a wheel nut it will...
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