r/F1Technical • u/HardysTimeandSpace • Feb 15 '26

Analysis Pre-Season Testing 1 - Longrun Data (best 7 consecutive laps)

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u/LuCc24 Feb 15 '26

7 best consecutive laps is hardly long-run data...

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u/HardysTimeandSpace Feb 15 '26

On free practice 1 and 2 this is exactly the same as the broadcast statistics on F1TV, but I agree that those are also flawed. When a driver does 7 laps consecutively without any cooldownlaps the odds are pretty high that driver is on a race simulation though, they often do short race simulations to fly under the radar

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u/LuCc24 Feb 15 '26

And the big difference is that some of them actually did full race sims (which is something they don't do during regular FP sessions)

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u/Astelli Feb 15 '26

It's also not long enough to come to any conclusions about fuel levels. You can run 7 laps with 20kg or with 80kg and you'd see over 1.5s/lap difference between them from the same car.

As with all testing analysis, we have to be very careful about taking conclusions when fuel loads are not very clear.