Pre-Season 2013 F1 Winter Testing: 1 - Circuito de Jerez, 5-8 February

[Brogan]

FFS! The season has barely started and the baiting is already in full flow.

Can't you just be happy for the driver you support instead of trying to put others down?

 

[snowy]

Grosjean pips Jenson's quickest time from yesterday with a 1:18.828.

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

Is there any reason why Maldonado has only done 7 laps so far??

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

A nice tech porn picture from my bird feed page id thought id share for no good reason.

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/marussia-mr02/attachment/upmarus1/

 

[snowy]

Lunch Times:

0 Driver	Team		Best Lap 	Last lap 	Difference 	Laps

1 R. Grosjean	Lotus 		1:18.828 	1:32.578 			45

2 P. di Resta	Force India 	1:19.094 	1:20.070 	+0.266 		54

3 D. Ricciardo	Toro Rosso 	1:19.134 	1:22.007 	+0.306 		41

4 M. Webber	Red Bull 	1:19.338 	1:20.574 	+0.51 		46

5 N. Hulkenberg	Sauber 		1:19.502 	1:25.592 	+0.674 		40

6 L. Hamilton	Mercedes 	1:19.519 	1:20.409 	+0.691 		15

7 S. Perez	McLaren 	1:19.572 	1:27.101 	+0.744 		38

8 F. Massa	Ferrari 	1:19.914 	1:30.942 	+1.086 		33

9 G. der Garde	Caterham 	1:21.916 	1:26.015 	+3.088 		33

10 L. Razia	Marussia 	1:23.537 	1:26.704 	+4.709 		31

11 P. Maldonado	Williams 	1:27.124 	1:27.124 	+8.296 		7

 

[Mephistopheles]

I don't like to nitpick Brogan as you well know but it will the the second test in 3D that sky will be showing not the third although they may show that as well..

 

[Mephistopheles]

I have a question!

Why do teams only take one car to these testing sessions?

 

[Brogan]

I don't like to nitpick Brogan as you well know but that will the the second test in 3D that will be showing not the third although they may show that as well..

Err, it's the second Barcelona test, which is the third and final test

 

[Mephistopheles]

FFS why can't people speak plain English and stop bloody confusing me....

 

[tooncheese]

I have a question!

Why do teams only take one car to these testing sessions?

I'm not aware of rule than forbids it, but they are limited to 15,000 km, so there is no point in running a second car as the teams will reach it with one.

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

Best for Mercedes to discover these issues with their car in February at Jerez than on the 3rd lap of Albert Park in March...

I am just 'appy the lads are all back behind the wheel and laying down some eye-tal-ee-yan rubber around any track...

Autosport (premium) has a good little article out on what really goes on on day one of testing...

http://plus.autosport.com/premium/feature/5122/tech-blog-the-day-one-checklist/

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

Rosberg Day One wiring problem solved...
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HR hadn't filled the job yet...

http://motorsport-jobs.autosport.co...etronas-f1-team/vacancy/136/wiring-technician

 

[pirateplunder]

Not really sure of the big fuss over Jenson's time. It was good, but not that much better than times we've seen today for example. As far as I'm aware there aren't major changes with the car this year, where as last year there were significant changes to the McLaren with the exhaust etc. So long as the driver has confidence the thing isn't going to fall apart then after a few installation laps there's no reason this year not to be seeing good times. It bodes well sure, although the fuel pump issue doesn't, but not sure its that amazing. After all we haven't seen what either Sebastian or Fernando can do and only a little of Lewis. The way some in the pit lane were going on you'd think McLaren have the WDC and WCC in the bag,

 

[teabagyokel]

The way some in the pit lane were going on you'd think McLaren have the WDC and WCC in the bag,

http://cliptheapex.com/threads/the-thurst-of-the-losers.5878/
Well, they've had some chances to take the WCC before.[/shamelessplug]

It does stand to reason that McLaren would be the fastest package on Day One, since they were the fastest package at the end of 2012.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I'm not aware of rule than forbids it, but they are limited to 15,000 km, so there is no point in running a second car as the teams will reach it with one.

But if they had two cars they wouldn't loose valuable testing time when one of the cars has a problem after all McLaren lost 5 hours yesterday and Mercedes has lost time today. so would it make sense to take a back up?

 

[Brogan]

If it's a fundamental design fault though, they wouldn't be running the second car anyway.

 

[teabagyokel]

Brogan - Either that or they'd double the repair bill.

 

[Brogan]

Video of Hamilton's crash.
He's fortunate there was a large gravel trap and his speed wasn't as high as it could have been on other corners.

 

[pirateplunder]

With two cars, they'd also need twice as many of any experimental parts that they may use during any part of the three tests. Both cars would have to be changed together so if the second car was needed it would be almost exactly the same for comparisons and as said, if its a faulty part they'd have to replace both so couldn't use the other straight away anyway. Only really useful for crashes requiring a large and lengthy rebuild. Even then, probably only significant if it occurs in the morning. I suspect they're just not too worried about loosing time, especially early on when they can make that running time up.

 

[teabagyokel]

I think losing time to mechanicals on two days out of two starts to get a little worrying!