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

[snowy]

Timo and Jenson and a guy from who knows where with a name I can not pronounce!

 

[snowy]

Ricardo Teixeira
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1 	---- 	

2 	1:39.091 	

3 	1:35.493 	-3.598

4 	1:35.121 	-0.372

5 	1:35.516 	+0.395

6 	1:35.135 	-0.381

7 	1:34.203 	-0.932

8 	1:35.982 	+1.779

9 	---- 	

10 	1:35.982 	

11 	1:34.612 	-1.37

12 	1:33.159 	-1.453

13 	1:33.546 	+0.387

14 	1:33.572 	+0.026

15 	1:38.003 	+4.431

16 	1:33.205 	-4.798

17 	1:32.720 	-0.485

18 	---- 	

19 	1:32.720 	

20 	1:33.632 	+0.912

21 	1:31.959 	-1.673

22 	1:31.584 	-0.375

23 	1:31.645 	+0.061

24 	1:31.669 	+0.024

25 	1:32.398 	+0.729

26 	---- 





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[snowy]

Autosport are reporting that Jenson had Hydraulic problems this morning.

Kravitz being misdirected earlier? It wouldn't be for the first time... hehehehe

 

[snowy]

We may get a race simulation from RBR this afternoon!

That would be good.

 

[snowy]

Funniest and most misguided quote of the 2011 F1 season so far:

Ecclestone wouldn't send F1 somewhere unsafe

 

[tooncheese]

Just had a chip butty the size of my face - any thing changed recently?

 

[sportsman]

We may get a race simulation from RBR this afternoon!

That would be good.

+1.That would give us a very good insight into just how good the RB7 is.
My opinion is that Newey will have done it again with something nobody else has thought of.
Usually something that you cannot easily see.

 

[snowy]

I was trying to think why McLaren appear so stubbornly committed to not having a flexible front wing.

Then it occurred to me that perhaps Ferrari were developing such a wing back in 2007.

Perhaps McLaren aren't allowed to develop that technology because of the agreement with the FIA that saved them from a total ban...

 

[snowy]

Button and, Vettel on track.

 

[snowy]

1:29.759 for Sebastian, 1:24.923 for Jenson.

 

[sportsman]

That would seem to indicate that Vettel is indeed doing a race simultation.This will be interesting if he is.

 

[snowy]

Jenson pits.
Sebastian continues posting: 1:30.1, 1:30.3.1:30.4.

 

[snowy]

He's going long....

 

[sportsman]

Wonder which tyres he's on.Consistently losing 1 or 2 tenths each lap. Be interesting to see what his times do when the fuel load reduces.

 

[snowy]

And pits on lap 10

Schumacher	Vettel

01:30.456	01:29.759

01:30.657	01:30.102

01:31.326	01:30.361

01:31.206	01:30.477

01:31.526	01:30.892

01:31.998	01:30.878

01:32.517	01:31.381

01:33.481	01:31.650

01:33.516	01:32.145

01:33.564	01:32.564

01:33.685	---- 

01:33.803	01:32.564

01:34.814	01:29.846

---- 		01:29.248

01:31.264	01:29.228

01:31.982	01:29.420

01:32.432	01:29.970

01:32.227	01:30.257

01:31.331	01:29.913

01:31.714	01:30.171

01:31.782	01:30.425

01:31.785	01:30.419

01:31.764	01:30.754

01:32.312	01:31.059

01:32.524	01:31.423

01:32.361	01:32.146

01:32.878	---- 

01:33.076	

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01:33.076	

01:29.095	

01:29.803	

01:30.247

01:30.220

01:30.629

01:30.268

01:30.150

01:31.079

01:30.578

01:31.077

01:30.650

01:30.426

01:30.473

01:30.937

01:31.015

01:31.870

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01:31.870

01:27.569

01:28.356

01:28.644

01:28.706

01:28.400

01:28.435

01:29.407

01:31.284

01:30.283

01:29.830

01:29.885

01:30.545

01:30.232

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[sportsman]

Softs?

 

[snowy]

Jenson posting:

25 	1:29.933 	+5.01

26 	1:29.554 	-0.379

27 	1:29.750 	+0.196

28 	1:30.142 	+0.392

29 	1:29.834 	-0.308

Has he just started a race simulation?

 

[sportsman]

Pitboards suggest another 17 laps.

 

[sportsman]

Last season's strategy almost always ended up with soft tyres used in Q3 and therefore the first stint of the race. That's possibly what we've just seen from Red Bull - and some pretty significant data on how that was handled by the tyres.

 

[snowy]

Indeed this is exciting stuff!