Not like this year. When they took away open testing, and added budget restrictions that proved to be counter productive, they destroyed F1 as the pinocle of motor sports. Now everything is dependent on simulators. But F1 shouldn't be about developing video games, we are building real machines that will be traveling at real speeds on real surfaces in a real world of constantly changing conditions. To come to the first race with a car has serious miles on it, driven by the drivers who will actually race it, then you have a real race right from the beginning. I think one of the reasons Schumacher failed when he went to Mercedes was because he no longer had the testing time that was such a part of his victories at Ferrari. After every race, he'd be back in the car on Monday or Tuesday...pushing it harder, trying new parts. Today we are evolving into eco/pc video game imitations of auto racing.
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