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

[sportsman]

O'dear.That quick on a not fully rubbered in track looks very ominous for the other teams

 

[Speshal]

Hur hur hurrrr he said "rubbered"

 

[snowy]

 

[snowy]

It was a 7 lap run for Webber and his quickest lap was only .4s slower than Massa's quickest lap from the last test, which was a qualifying simulation!

 

[snowy]

McLaren could be 10 seconds off the pace!

 

[Galahad]

Going back to fuel-qualifying days, 1 lap of fuel around Catalunya translated to (approximately) 0.08s/lap. Since the engines haven't changed I doubt this figure has altered much.

 

[snowy]

What is going on at the rear of the McLaren?

 

[sportsman]

Ride height sensors?.Weird device.I have never seen anything like that before.

 

[snowy]

They look like loose louvres...

 

[sportsman]

Beats me snowy.No idea.

 

[sportsman]

Tyres available to the teams for this test.
Pirelli is bringing 35 sets of tyres per team to the Barcelona test a total of 1680 tyres, including five sets of intermediate tyres and three sets of wet tyres per team. This is considerably more than the two sets of intermediate tyres and three sets of wet tyres that had been earmarked for Bahrain.http://www.pitpass.com/src/circuits/bahrain.php

 

[snowy]

 

[snowy]

McLaren are loitering in the pits again...

Are they still suffering from heat exhaustion?

 

[Pyrope]

What is going on at the rear of the McLaren?

Looks like they have copied Sauber's little flow-conditioning vanes... but gone to the extreme!

Oh, and a happy morning to y'all. (6 am in Canada)

 

[snowy]

McLaren Pod: stranger rumours suggest the quite strong looking struts are hydraulic and move the wing to replicate different flex, the results can then be measured in order to engineer subsequent wings to flex in a similar manner. the hydr set up is legal for testing, then as RBR proved last year a wing can flex as long as it meets the FIA test

 

[snowy]

Hi Pyrope, I'll have to have another look at the Sauber.

 

[snowy]

Button has returned to the track, his first lap is a 1:30.284 .6 quicker than the first of his last stint.

There's been an improvement!


... no wait!
His next lap is even quicker... 3tenths quicker, in fact.

 

[sportsman]

Good afternoon Pyrope. 14.45 here.Good to see you.

 

[sportsman]

Button has returned to the track, his first lap is a 1:30.284 .6 quicker than the first of his last stint.

There's been an improvement!


... no wait!
His next lap is even quicker... 3tenths quicker, in fact.

Ah' he must be flapping his front wing faster.

 

[snowy]

Jenson

01:30.284
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