Yeah, I covered the whole circuit. Basically just walked around the track every day rather than staying in one spot. Favourite spot is difficult to say - Campsa is a pretty amazing corner, but most of the time the cars weren't going flat out so not quite as impressive. Turn 1 is always an interesting spot to see how the cars handle under brakes and then power away through the chicane. But in general the track is great for viewing because in nearly every spot you can see lots of the track - or are only a few metres walk away from being able to see another corner.
What also was cool was on one day when I was running late (similar excuse to Kimi's i imagine
) , walking from Montmelo station (30 minute walk from station to track) and hearing the noises of the cars whilst walking through a regular town centre. That was a pretty amazing feeling, and of course you couldn't get lost on the walk with those sounds!
As for the pecking order, I mean it's hard to say to be honest. As can be expected with minimal rule changes, I don't think any of the top teams have built a shocking car or anything, they all look pretty planted. So it's hard to really pick half a tenth between the cars when you are sitting at a corner, which is all it would be. The Mercedes always seemed to be pushing quite hard, it was clear Red Bull didn't push much for most of the time but when they did it looked good. Grosjean seemed erratic but hard to know if that's just him or the Lotus. But realistically, I can't make some sort of definite conclusions out of the time there. It was clear how bad tyre degredation was when Alonso tried to do a long stint on Friday afternoon, but again hard to say if that's endemic to all teams or just them. So basically I couldn't name a clear stand-out.
What was a pity was that I found a timing screen with speed trap and split time information about Saturday 4.00pm, but then when I went back about 4.30 (I wanted to see Ferrari times), they had turned it off, and it was off on Sunday too... It only showed the 10 most recent laps on track or something but a pity I wasn't able to study it a bit more.
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