Three months since the 2016 season ended in Abu Dhabi, Formula 1 is finally back on track with the first pre-season test in Barcelona. And while the first test always carries plenty of excitement with all the new cars, this year’s edition has the added bonus of debuting a markedly different formula from what we’ve seen so far this decade. For better or worse, aero is once again the name-of-the-game and that means cars, that if nothing else, will be a whole lot faster. Certainly more than any year since at least 2014, the dawn of the current hybrid turbo era, the possibilities in pre-season testing are wide open. There are so many questions up-and-down the grid that can’t be...
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