Pre-Season JEREZ TEST 10th-14th Feb 2011

[snowy]

Less than thirty minutes left in fact...

 

[fat jez]

C a n 't p o s t... h a v e c a t o n l a p, i m p e d i n g m o v e m e n t o f l i m b s...

WTF is CaT doing on your lap? I mean, I know he's navy and months on board a ship can do strange things to you, but really!

 

[teabagyokel]

WTH is CaT doing on your lap? I mean, I know he's navy and months on board a ship can do strange things to you, but really!

Drapeau noir

 

[snowy]

Perhaps I should have specified a cat... of the feline persuasion?

 

[fat jez]

, its an issue I often experience, courtesy of my avatar

 

[teabagyokel]

So what was fat jez doing on your lap?

 

[snowy]

So what can we conclude from today:

Mercedes are getting their act together, the car isn't that slow after all.

The Ferrari is running very smoothly and not eating up its tires.

Red Bull are doing some seriously consistent if not particularly quick laps. Their tyre degridation is pretty much under total control over short runs, Mark didn't do any long runs today, unless, that is they were interrupted by Red Flags?

The McLaren looks to be ok, and the team are apparently taking their time getting to know it inside and out.

 

[snowy]

Did I say tires! I meant tyres...

 

[fat jez]

and STR seem to be faster than their sister team

 

[Chasz]

must be getting tired, snowy... (bad joke)

 

[snowy]

and STR seem to be faster than their sister team

Could be the double floor.

 

[Chasz]

mmm.... It looks like the teams are getting the hang of keeping these pirellis in shape - not any massive drop off going on.

Anyone know about the situation on the marbles. I heard these new tyres are creating a lot of marbles... which could be bad for racing :/

 

[snowy]

1 M. Schumacher	Mercedes 	1:20.352 		112

2 F. Massa	Ferrari 	1:20.413 	+0.061 	116

3 J. Button	McLaren 	1:21.009 	+0.657 	69

4 J. Alguers'	Toro Rosso 	1:21.214 	+0.862 	72

5 M. Webber	Red Bull 	1:21.613 	+1.261 	113

6 A. Sutil	Force India 	1:21.780 	+1.428 	73

7 S. Perez	Sauber 		1:21.857 	+1.505 	56

8 T. Glock	Virgin 		1:22.208 	+1.856 	57

9 V. Petrov	Renault 	1:22.493 	+2.141 	65

10 P. Maldonado	Williams 	1:22.591 	+2.239 	38

11 J. Trulli	Team Lotus 	1:23.216 	+2.864 	400

 

[snowy]

Indeed, if they are creating lots more marbles you can wave goodbye to any improvement in overtaking.

 

[tooncheese]

Pirelli still have a bit of time to improve the compounds, so they wear differently, and also it seems Merc have found pace at last, or was that a fast run to stop the sponsors worrying?

 

[Chasz]

Schumacher's time was set on a 8 lap run... so at best he would have been fuelled only for 10 laps or so.

 

[jonnybario]

I'm impressed by Glock's time - less than 2 secs off the ultimate pace. Even if it was a low fuel/new tyre run it looks like Virgin might possibly be in touch with the midfield this year.

 

[Jen]

Well done Snowy (and cat) - I can't keep up with testing, so am grateful for all your hard work x

 

[Chasz]

ye jonny i noticed that too - don't know if it's a sign they're going to trounce lotus or not but encouraging for them even if there is plently of 'sandbagging' taking place

 

[tooncheese]

My language is restricted to english (the best one

), so what does Darpeau noir/vert/rouge mean?