Pre-Season Barcelona Test - 8th to 12th March

[snowy]

Jenson Button and Mclaren also appear to have turned a corner...
Though it would appear they are heading in the opposite direction to Mercedes. Jens is in 10th with just 22 laps on the car today.

 

[snowy]

"McLaren running aero paint everywhere today and now on the air intake into the engine or somewhere else! But they are still not happy with something on the car."

 

[sportsman]

Did you notice I invented a new word?

Indeed.I rather like it.

 

[snowy]

Alonso surges after a rejuvenated Michael Schumacher as Vodafone McLaren airlift Jenson Button to safety.

 

[snowy]

Rubens Barrichello is half way through a race simulation!

24 	---- 	

25 	1:30.751 	

26 	1:30.227 	-0.524

27 	1:31.025 	+0.798

28 	1:31.079 	+0.054

29 	1:31.914 	+0.835

30 	1:31.989 	+0.075

31 	1:32.178 	+0.189

32 	1:32.186 	+0.008

33 	1:32.759 	+0.573

34 	1:33.523 	+0.764

35 	---- 	

36 	1:33.523 	

37 	1:31.309 	-2.214

38 	1:32.050 	+0.741

39 	1:31.651 	-0.399

40 	1:31.765 	+0.114

41 	1:31.636 	-0.129

42 	1:31.429 	-0.207

43 	1:31.731 	+0.302

44 	1:31.525 	-0.206

45 	1:31.536 	+0.011

46 	1:31.414 	-0.122

47 	1:31.458 	+0.044

48 	1:31.600 	+0.142

49 	1:31.942 	+0.342

50 	1:32.365 	+0.423

51 	---- 	

52 	1:32.365 	

53 	1:30.864 	-1.501

54 	1:30.844 	-0.02

55 	1:31.644 	+0.8

56 	1:30.799 	-0.845

57 	1:30.904 	+0.105

58 	1:30.993 	+0.089

59 	1:31.060 	+0.067

60 	1:31.914 	+0.854

61 	1:30.751 	-1.163

62 	1:30.965 	+0.214

63 	1:31.210 	+0.245

64 	1:31.990 	+0.78

65 	---- 	

66 	1:31.990 	

67 	1:29.952 	-2.038

68 	1:30.020 	+0.068

69 	1:29.468 	-0.552

70 	1:29.618 	+0.15

71 	1:31.070 	+1.452

72 	1:30.083 	-0.987

73 	1:30.162 	+0.079

74 	1:29.828 	-0.334

75 	1:30.235 	+0.407

76 	1:30.317 	+0.082

77 	1:30.690 	+0.373

78 	1:31.000 	+0.31

79 	---- 	

80 	1:31.000 	

81 	1:29.786 	-1.214

82 	1:29.631 	-0.155

83 	1:28.265 	-1.366

84 	1:28.217 	-0.048

85 	1:28.458 	+0.241

86 	1:28.447 	-0.011

87 	1:28.653 	+0.206

88 	1:28.094 	-0.559

89 	---- 

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

Michael Schumacher sets a 1:21.268 to go fastest!

A significant time as it is the quickest so far at Barcelona 2011.

Drat and double drat!

 

[sportsman]

I think that he is running without KERS today.Williams are having problems with the KERS control unit.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

Alonso surges after a rejuvenated Michael Schumacher as Vodafone McLaren airlift Jenson Button to safety.

Like it.
Or could that be Hamilton making his escape in the direction of a contract with Williams for 2011 2012?

 

[snowy]

Hehehe! you saw The Flying Lap Williams retrospective Chad.

 

[snowy]

Θ. 	Driver		Team 		Best Lap 	Last lap 	Diff	Laps

1 	M. Schumacher	Mercedes 	1:21.268 	1:21.412 		37

2 	F. Alonso	Ferrari 	1:21.614 	1:21.614 	+0.346 	55

3 	N. Heidfeld	Renault 	1:22.073 	1:22.073 	+0.805 	39

4 	R. Barrichello	Williams 	1:22.233 	1:30.235 	+0.965 	75

5 	K. Kobayashi	Sauber 		1:22.315 	1:22.315 	+1.047 	41

6 	J. Alguersuari	Toro Rosso 	1:22.675 	1:22.675 	+1.407 	29

7 	S. Vettel	Red Bull 	1:23.012 	1:25.964 	+1.744 	28

8 	H. Kovalainen	Lotus 		1:23.437 	1:29.412 	+2.169 	62

9 	A. Sutil	Force India 	1:23.921 	1:25.512 	+2.653 	26

10 	J. Button	McLaren 	1:25.837 	1:27.035 	+4.569 	34

11 	J. D'Ambrosio	Virgin 		1:27.570 	1:29.648 	+6.302 	32

 

[snowy]

That tsunami is mind blowing! The whole of the Pacific rim is on alert.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

That tsunami is mind blowing! The whole of the Pacific rim is on alert.

It looks dreadful, doesn't it? I thought this sentence in the BBC news article was particularly scary:
"The Red Cross in Geneva warned that the tsunami waves could be higher than some Pacific islands, Reuters news agency said."

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

Heidfeld third quickest!

If only Renault had Kubica available, eh?

 

[snowy]

It looks like Rubens is going to end up a lap or perhaps two short of a race distance...

65 laps completed

 

[sportsman]

It looks dreadful, doesn't it? I thought this sentence in the BBC news article was particularly scary:
"The Red Cross in Geneva warned that the tsunami waves could be higher than some Pacific islands, Reuters news agency said."

Frightening sight. Makes you feel very small and insignificant against the power of nature.

 

[sportsman]

Point taken snowy, and I admit that there are not too many better teams; but there was, for example, a lot of 'Kubica to Ferrari' talk that in the end came to nothing. He always seems to be the driver of whom people say, "If only he was in a more competitive car he'd show what he can do". But you can't have it both ways.
And there are no prizes for qualifying. What counts is bringing the car home in points-scoring places in races, over a whole season; and Nick did that better than Robert for two out of three seasons.

Don't get me wrong; I rate Kubica very highly. But I rate Heidfeld highly too, and I get frustrated that Robert is perceived as so much better when their race records don't bear that out.

That is the real test.

 

[snowy]

However if your car isn't at the very front and you are scrapping for minor points your race performance relative to your teammate over the whole season can be seriously distorted. One freak P2 or P3 can vault you over your teammate in an instant.

 

[Grizzly]

Frightening sight. Makes you feel very small and insignificant against the power of nature.

The energy release was apparently 3000 times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested... 8-900 times as powerful as the quake to hit New Zealand recently, and around 100 times as powerful as hit Haiti

 

[Grizzly]

Alonso surges after a rejuvenated Michael Schumacher as Vodafone McLaren airlift Jenson Button to safety.

At last McLaren get some flying laps in!

 

[sportsman]

Of course it can.Statistics can be distorted by many factors.
But qualifying and fastest laps don't mean much in themselves.The only result that matters is race position on Sunday afternoon when the chequered flag falls.