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The updates each F1 team should bring to Spain

The return to pre-season test venue Barcelona is typically when Formula 1 teams introduce large rafts of updates. Based on form and car behaviour so far, our technical experts Giorgio Piola, Gary Anderson and Jake Boxall-Legge suggest what each individual squad ought to have for the Spanish Grand Prix

Jake Boxall-Legge Gary Anderson May 8, 2019, 1:17 PM

Traditionally, the Spanish Grand Prix is the round at which the majority of the Formula 1 fraternity bolt on their largest upgrades of the season so far. With Barcelona relatively close to most of their factories and the cars back home from the early-season flyaways, it's the perfect opportunity to bolt on updates.

Now armed with four rounds worth of data, each team will have some idea of what it needs to work on, and engineers will be working into the small hours producing countless simulations to try to dig out some extra performance.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.