Pre-Season BARCELONA TEST 18th-21st Feb 2011

[sportsman]

Mike Gascoyne explains the current track conditions: "Too wet for dry tyres and getting too dry for any meaningful work on the the inters. hopefully will dry up for the afternoon"

 

[teabagyokel]

End of the day, you can feed your exhaust wherever you like, you can have whatever aero devices you want and you can flex your front wing all over the place but if the tyres are crap, the car is crap!

 

[snowy]

Felipe Massa is serenely touring round the wet Barcelona track like a Rain God! Setting fastest lap after fastest lap like he is on rails

The commentators curse is alive and living in me!

 

[snowy]

End of the day, you can feed your exhaust wherever you like, you can have whatever aero devices you want and you can flex your front wing all over the place but if the tyres are crap, the car is crap!

But surely the tyres are crap for everyone?

Did you mean to say something different from tyres?

 

[sportsman]

Sorry to hear that snowy.As far as I aware the is no known cure.

 

[teabagyokel]

Of course, snowy, but it is those who can prevent crappiness in tyres for the longest who will be ultimately successful. Unless they really do take my advice and ignore the exhaust feed, aero devices and flexing front wings!

 

[snowy]

Lewis is on track, don't know if he'll complete a timed lap though...

 

[sportsman]

But surely the tyres are crap for everyone?

Did you mean to say something different from tyres?

Exactly that snowy.Performance diferentials cannot be blamed on the tyres.

 

[snowy]

Lewis goes P1 with a 1:35.504!

 

[snowy]

I am officially quicker than Twitter!

 

[snowy]

Lewis pits.

The twits still haven't registered the lap!

 

[sportsman]

So I see.You had posted that before I saw it on theTwitter feed.

 

[sportsman]

Wonder If Hamiton was on inters for that lap. Must have been for that jump in time.

 

[snowy]

Ricciardo P2 with a 1:38.971.

I wonder what tyres they are on...

 

[snowy]

You'd have thought one of the twits would have noted the tyres by now... Or perhaps not.

 

[snowy]

They are on slicks.

 

[sportsman]

I would guess inters.Red Bull are on inters at present.Seem as though inters are starting to work

 

[teabagyokel]

They are on slicks.

I would guess inters.Red Bull are on inters at present.Seem as though inters are starting to work

Timing!

 

[snowy]

Ted Kravitz said Lewis left on slicks so they were probably inters!

 

[sportsman]

Snowy is too fast for me.