Well Van Der Garde has just been confirmed as Caterham's 'Friday' driver and he's gonna be testing this week as well so I think the Petrov thing might be dead
Pre-Season 2012 Testing: Jerez
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Anyone think Lotus and Kimi might be going for a few headlines today?
So far HRT have done 8 flying laps to Button's 0.
http://translate.google.com/transla...-direct.com/include/livegp/we/temp/essais.php
Also in the bottom lh corner it gives the 2012 rankings:
Massa is first with Alonso second, the top team being Ferrari. All have scored 0 points.
Whitmarsh has decided to keep Button's running down to a minimum whilst maximising Hamilton's to hopefully allow Hamilton to draw level with Button this season.
http://translate.google.com/transla...-direct.com/include/livegp/we/temp/essais.php
Also in the bottom lh corner it gives the 2012 rankings:
Massa is first with Alonso second, the top team being Ferrari. All have scored 0 points.
Whitmarsh has decided to keep Button's running down to a minimum whilst maximising Hamilton's to hopefully allow Hamilton to draw level with Button this season.
Buttons 1.22.366 is much slower than the Lotus 1.19.67
Hopefully it was just a cautious first run.
Hopefully it was just a cautious first run.
Don't think so.Kimi might be on low fuel runs but he is still running the medium compounds.Later today he will try the softer tyres.
It's testing - I wouldn't get too sweaty about laptimes until the last test before Melbourne. If McLaren are languishing near the bottom of the timesheets and only doing 3-lap runs, then it'd be time to start chewing fingernails. Nobody's mentioned flow-vis paint or pitot gantries yet, which suggests they're just system-checking for the time being.
Kewee
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People people people!!!!!!! The times your seeing are meaningless. They're all gathering data to evaluate. They're all brand new cars that hadn't turned a wheel until a few hours ago. Start reading a little into times during the fourth day of the third test in four weeks time. Even then we won't have the answers until Q3 in Australia.
I'll doubt we'll have all the answers even then.
I agree the times are pointless but the non-F1 world don't get that which is why I think "Kimi marks return by topping timesheets in new Lotus" would be a great piece of PR work for a team that currently needs good PR.
I agree the times are pointless but the non-F1 world don't get that which is why I think "Kimi marks return by topping timesheets in new Lotus" would be a great piece of PR work for a team that currently needs good PR.
snowy
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1 Raikkonen Lotus 1m19.670s
2 Rosberg Mercedes 1m20.219s +0.549
3 Ricciardo Toro Rosso 1m20.694s +1.024
4 Di Resta Force India 1m21.526s +1.856
5 Kobayashi Sauber 1m22.112s +2.442
6 Button McLaren 1m22.366s +2.696
7 Massa Ferrari 1m22.815s +3.145
8 Maldonado Williams 1m23.457s +3.787
9 Webber Red Bull 1m23.556s +3.886
10 Kovalainen Caterham 1m24.298s +4.628
11 De la Rosa HRT 1m25.535s +5.865
The times are not totally worthless. Every car will at some point try a fast low fuel run.
And the teams will all have their spies there working out how much fuel is in each car and what tyres they are on.
The teams will come away from this with a reasonable idea of where their pace is.
And the teams will all have their spies there working out how much fuel is in each car and what tyres they are on.
The teams will come away from this with a reasonable idea of where their pace is.
Button's just been doing system checks etc. this morning so you definitely can't read anything in to his lap times, which are in fact better than the Ferrari and Red Bull at the minute anyway. He's doing long runs this afternoon apparently so then we might see some quicker times.
The more I look at the new McLaren the more I like it. It's not dull as I previously knee-jerked after its unveiling.
I rather hope that Andrew Benson is right when he states that the low nose is a McLaren design philosophy that is far ahead of the competition - that they've got a jump on how to deal with the effect it has over the rest of the car after basically designing the 2011 car for it. Only for the regulation to be postponed for a year!
I rather hope that Andrew Benson is right when he states that the low nose is a McLaren design philosophy that is far ahead of the competition - that they've got a jump on how to deal with the effect it has over the rest of the car after basically designing the 2011 car for it. Only for the regulation to be postponed for a year!
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