This year the break between the final Abu Dhabi test and the first car launch planned by the Williams team will be 73 days. When compared to the previous season this long cold winter in Europe is actually two weeks shorter than last year.
Back at HQ, the winter is the time for the techies and engineers to shine, as they hit their marks in the dash to complete their racing prototypes to challenge for the coming campaign. The drivers disappear to the four corners of the earth, some enjoying extreme winter sports, others taking on the surf in warmer climes and for the most they shut down or minimise their social media cutting us off from one primary source for our F1 fixes.
Inevitably this means the F1 media also slows down, but given the potential content is minimal, many of the F1 writers are chasing the same handful of quotes for their daily news offerings. Of course less reputable publications may from time to time get carried away, making a mountain out of a mole or stretching the analysis beyond the bounds of reality. Cullen stepped up following the death of Aki Hintsa in , and she and Lewis developed quickly the kind of rapport, which is often a once in a lifetime connection.
Yet following her departure she took a year out before returning last season to work wit Indycar racer Marcus Armstrong. Armstrong was making his way in north the premier American single seater racing series and only in his second season in the sport with title winning team Chip Ganassi.
Or is it just the fact he is a natural talent and would have naturally improved on his 21st place finish during his rookie year? Hamilton plays superb politics in Maranello. Again, this is hardly proof the pair will reunite, but it does make a hope story to read to the F1 kids before they tuck in for another European winter storm. Turner, a sport physiologist from Manchester Met, who spends most of the interview discussing how much easier it is to reunite with an old mentor than have the award period of time getting to know somebody new.
