The Formula 1 season schedule grew tougher and more congested than ever as the championship approached the sixth round and midseason. This tight itinerary gave all F1 and F2 teams relatively just a one-week gap between the Bahrain and British Grands Prix.
And with tighter schedules came tighter and denser training drills. The team had just landed in Fulham, London after a two-day airline delay caused by heavy rainfall and thunderstorms. The spring season was at its peak just as the new month of May unfolded, offering fresh opportunities for corrections and improvements before the latter half of the year.
