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Pirelli ‘worried' about a Barcelona cold snap

With less than three weeks until pre-season testing gets underway, Pirelli are hoping that last year's snow fall stays away. Despite losing track time last year to snow, sleet and ice, Formula 1 will return to the Circuit de Catalunya this season for both four-day pre-season tests. Long-term forecasts are for a cold week throughout the opening test, which gets underway February 18. That week's high is 13'C while the following week, when the second test is held, the maximum is forecast to reach 18'C. 'Until the beginning of January it was like it was spring in Barcelona, but now it is much colder,' Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola told Motorsport.com. 'We know what happened last year, we are...
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