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

[fat jez]

so Lotus Renault is the team formerly known as Renault?

 

[snowy]

The Heidfeld machine has returned to the circuit...

 

[snowy]

That is an affirmative.

 

[snowy]

Nick does a 1:23.745...

So that has nothing to do with his race simulation. sigh.

 

[sportsman]

This one is Lotus Renault.As registered at companies house uk.

http://www.lotusrenaultgp.com/spip.php?article3972

 

[snowy]

On to weightier matters:

Lewis has just broken the 100 lap barrier!

It's official the MP4-26 is a racing car.

 

[fat jez]

I don't think that car is as bad as everyone is making out

 

[Galahad]

Martin Brundle on Twitter:

"McLaren looks shocking as if on cold tyres"

Let's hope it was on cold tyres then..?

 

[snowy]

10 minutes to go and everyone is out on track after Schuey's red flag incident...

 

[snowy]

Felipe trying to beat his 1:22.625 from the previous run!

 

[snowy]

Bahrain race cancelled.

 

[snowy]

Lewis's final run
104 1:24.003 -5.923
105 1:43.155 +19.152
106 1:24.095 -19.06

 

[snowy]

The fat lady has sung and it sounded a little muffled from where I am!

Catch you next week at where ever the decide to pitch it!

 

[snowy]

1 	F. Massa	Ferrari 	1:22.625 	1:39.481 		121

2 	M. Webber	Red Bull 	1:23.442 	1:26.279 	+0.817 	69

3 	S. Buemi	Toro Rosso 	1:23.550 	1:30.224 	+0.925 	90

4 	N. Heidfeld	Renault 	1:23.657 	1:23.657 	+1.032 	95

5 	L. Hamilton	McLaren 	1:24.003 	1:24.095 	+1.378 	107

6 	P. Maldonado	Williams 	1:24.057 	1:32.338 	+1.432 	121

7 	A. Sutil	Force India 	1:24.177 	1:31.675 	+1.552 	64

8 	S. Perez	Sauber 		1:24.515 	1:25.543 	+1.89 	74

9 	J. D'Ambrosio	Virgin 		1:26.501 	1:53.049 	+3.876 	50

10 	M. Schumacher	Mercedes 	1:27.079 	1:33.591 	+4.454 	114

11 	J. Trulli	Team Lotus 	1:29.992 			+7.367 	18

 

[snowy]

	Team		Driver	Time	Laps	Time Of Day

1	Ferrari		MAS	82.625	113	2/21/2011 4:34:30 PM

2	Red Bull	WEB	83.442	60	2/21/2011 11:56:29 AM

3	Toro Rosso	BUE	83.55	84	2/21/2011 11:23:39 AM

4	Renault		HEI	83.657	92	2/21/2011 4:52:36 PM

5	McLaren		HAM	84.003	98	2/21/2011 4:52:28 PM

6	Williams	MAL	84.057	115	2/21/2011 12:31:38 PM

7	Force India	SUT	84.177	56	2/21/2011 4:34:43 PM

8	Sauber		PEZ	84.515	66	2/21/2011 4:53:44 PM

9	Virgin		DAM	86.501	43	2/21/2011 4:52:10 PM

10	Mercedes GP	MSC	87.079	110	2/21/2011 11:40:57 AM

11	Lotus		TRU	90.146	14	2/21/2011 10:16:33 AM

 

[sportsman]

The fat lady has sung and it sounded a little muffled from where I am!

Catch you next week at where ever the decide to pitch it!

Many many thanks for your excellent job snowy.Really made a difference to the whole test.

 

[snowy]

Glad you were here to witness my most embarrassing moments!

Have a glass of ginger ale on me.

 

[chimera]

Thanks Snowy, excellent.

 

[KekeTheKing]

So the McLaren's a midfield runner and the season doesn't start for another 5 weeks. Excellent news all around.

 

[snowy]

McLaren end testing with 121 words, even fewer than yesterday! (140)

Lewis wrapped up four days of running at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, spending the day focusing on tyre development over a series of long runs.
Clocking up an impressive 107 laps – MP4-26’s biggest single-day mileage – the team worked through a lengthy tyre development programme, eschewing outright laptimes in order to more fully understand how the Pirellis behave throughout a race stint.
Test team manager Indy Lall said: “It was very encouraging to log over 100 laps with MP4-26 today – an impressive conclusion to our four days in Barcelona. We’re still working through a very lengthy development programme – today wasn’t about pure performance, it was about conducting a disciplined series of long-runs – but it’s been a positive end to our test here.”

Not as many as I'd hoped and most of them are apologetic or at best self-deluding...