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Cost and logistics preclude Bahrain as pre-season venue - Steiner
Haas' Guenther Steiner says swapping Barcelona for Bahrain as F1's venue for pre-season testing in the future would involve high costs and 'brutal' logictics. Teams have been forced to deal with the unexpected vagaries of Barcelona's weather, marked by cold conditions, snow and rain. Tuesday dawned white and wet at the Circuit de Catalunya, offering the prospect of little running over the course of the day. Preliminary discussions among teams about extending the first week of pre-season testing were not fruitful, prompting thoughts over a change of venue in the future to guarantee appropriate conditions. Singled out as the only realistic option, Bahrain would not get Steiner's stamp of...
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