“McLaren had very a lot stated, ‘No timing, you’ll not impress us in 20 minutes. Simply get pleasure from it, drive the automobile, soak it in, there’s no strain’,” Lloyd feedback. “No one was timing formally, however in fact, everyone’s dad and mom… Lewis’s dad was there, my dad was there, Jamie’s household was there. You could possibly see everyone there with their stopwatches.
“I bear in mind Lewis and I principally matched occasions, and I feel Jamie was a second or so quicker than us – he was on it. However for all three of us, there was most likely nonetheless a variety of efficiency left on the desk. None of us have been on the ragged edge.
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“You be taught as a lot as you’ll be able to in 20 minutes, however you additionally know that if you happen to had a complete day, you’d be going lots quicker. But it surely was enjoyable to see us all considerably battling for time, despite the fact that it’s fully irrelevant on the finish of the day.”
With the take a look at accomplished, Lloyd, Inexperienced and Hamilton got here again right down to earth and continued their respective motorsport journeys – all aiming to someday flip that transient style of F1 equipment into one thing extra.
Inexperienced was positioned in German touring automobile sequence DTM by his backers Mercedes for 2005 and stayed there for some 15 years, with an F1 seat by no means materialising, whereas Lloyd – struggling to search out the required funds – made sporadic outings in Italian Formulation 3000, Formulation Renault 3.5 and A1 Grand Prix earlier than heading to the US.
