Pre-Season Testing Has Started

[cider_and_toast]

Susie Wolff and Felipe Nasr have collided at turn 5. Wolff's front left clipping Nasr's right rear. No blame has been assigned yet but even so.....

And in other news, last years Force India is second fastest, half a second quicker than this years Red Bull. Good to see those times are an accurate reflection of potential then.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Times at 14:50
1. Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari - 1:25.167 - 58 Laps
2. Sergio Perez - Force India - 1:26.636 - 24 laps
4. Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull - 1:27.270 - 32 Laps
3. Felipe Nasr - Sauber - 1:27.307 - 68 Laps
5. Pastor Maldonado - Lotus - 1:27.510 - 48 Laps
6. Max Verstappen - Toro Rosso - 1:27.900 - 39 Laps
7. Jenson Button - McLaren - 1:28.182 - 21 Laps
8. Pascal Wehrlein - Force India - 1:28.329 - 32 Laps
9. Susie Wolff - Williams - 1:28.906 - 83 laps
10. Pascal Wehrlein - Mercedes - 1:29.286 - 20 Laps
11. Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1:30.429 - 11 Laps

 

[cider_and_toast]

Susie's fault apparently:

Sauber driver Felipe Nasr has been talking to the media following his collision with Williams test driver Susie Wolff on the first day of the second pre-season test in Barcelona.

The Brazilian said he saw Wolff moving off the racing line and assumed she had seen him and passed her.

But as he moved right to take the normal line into Turn Five he was hit in the right rear and went off.

He said that Wolff came up and said sorry she had not seen him. Wolff has yet to speak to the media about the incident.

 

[siffert_fan]

Let me see

Her FRONT wing hit his REAR tire. Doesn't that mean he was a full car length ahead of her? Yet she claims she didn't see him?? Just how restricted are the sight lines in an F1 car?

 

[FB]

She might have been touching up her lippy and lost concentration.

Time to run for cover...

 

[teabagyokel]

It takes a pay-driver and a nepotism-driver to crash into each other in testing. There's scarcely a racing incident in Catalunya in the middle of a race.

 

[Bushi]

1.

Maldonado Lotus E23 1:25.011 69

PIT
2.

Räikkönen Ferrari SF15-T 1:25.167 +0.156 74

PIT
3.

Ricciardo Red Bull Racing RB11 1:25.547 +0.536 59

PIT
4.

Perez Force India VJM08 1:26.636 +1.625 34

PIT
5.

Nasr Sauber C34 1:27.307 +2.296 79

PIT
6.

Verstappen Toro Rosso STR10 1:27.900 +2.889 93

PIT
7.

Button McLaren MP4-30 1:28.182 +3.171 21

PIT
8.

Wehrlein Mercedes GP W06 1:28.329 +3.318 80

PIT
9.

Wolff Williams FW37 1:29.400 +4.389 86

PIT
10.

Hamilton Mercedes GP W06 1:30.429 +5.418 11

PIT

Mclaren probably not running tomorrow.

 

[teabagyokel]

9.

Wolff Williams FW37 1:29.400 +4.389 86

PIT
10.

Hamilton Mercedes GP W06 1:30.429 +5.418 11

PIT

Whose site was that from, Alex Salmond?

 

[sushifiesta]

So both Hamilton (fever) and Rosberg (neck) are crippled, will be an interesting test for Mercedes.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

Let me see.

Isn't it the responsibility of the overtaking driver to avoid hitting the car they're passing?

Funny how everyone assumes it's the woman's fault without having even seen it.

 

[Bushi]

Whose site was that from, Alex Salmond?

F1today actually.

 

[Mephistopheles]

So the chick managed to prang the car on an out lap well done the chick, that's like picking up the brand new car from the garage and then having to explain to hubby why it isn't parked on the driveway......

 

[cider_and_toast]

Susie has a lot to learn about F1. Nasr got his excuse in first to the press and now it doesn't matter if it was her fault or not as she has to respond to his comments. He says she hit him and that in the gravel trap afterwards she came up to him and apologised for not seeing him. She says he cut across her and she was minding her own business and trying to keep out of his way.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Being as Nasr was on a hot lap and the chick was on an out lap it was her responsibility to get out of the bloody way...

 

[Olivier]

1.

Maldonado Lotus E23 1:25.011 69

PIT
2.

Räikkönen Ferrari SF15-T 1:25.167 +0.156 74

PIT

Maldonado's time set on softs and Raikkonen on mediums.

is it starting to look like a come back for the red team?

 

[sobriety]

Being as Nasr was on a hot lap and the chick was on an out lap it was her responsibility to get out of the bloody way...

It sounds like she tried, but Nasr still hit her, and then made out that she admitted it was her fault. He sounds like a wonderful chap...

 

[Dartman]

It's F1, the truth should not get in the way of any explanation as to why a faster car was hit by a slower one in the rear when it had just overtaken the slower one

 

[Bill Boddy]

Alonso is doing seven lap runs today, shorter as I remember than Button yesterday. He has also done more laps, does the Honda engine loke that more?

After thinking about it Honda must have known in advance that they had a problem, there is no way that they were going to do a design change in a couple of days. It's not likely that anyone is going to let us know though.

 

[Titch]

I'm on Susie's side.

 

[teabagyokel]

I'm on Jolyon Palmer's side on this one.