From team principals to drivers, from engineers to fans, Formula One racing is a sport of obsessives. And from the careful construction of a motorhome menu to polishing a car after it’s left parc ferme, painstaking preparation is par for the course.
It’s surprising then to find that in this bastion of minutiae most car upgrades only make it out on track for the first time during Grand Prix weekends. Of course, it hasn’t always been this way. If you rewind just five years, testing was king and test programmes were massive logistical exercises.