Pre-Season Winter testing : 2014 Season

[Titch]

That is some car, imagine parking that out front.

 

[Fenderman]

Not with that colour scheme. One would spend all day cleaning up the mess left behind by over-sensitive passers by.

 

[FB]

Not dissimilar to the "confusion" paint job on the 2014 Porsche Le Man car. I presume they paint them like this so that it's more difficult to see what is going on with the aero stuff?

 

[sushifiesta]

You also see it in prototypes of new road cars, it's to make it more difficult to identify new design features like you say.

 

[The Pits]

So, Wiilliams have also announced that they will be attending the first test. How many does that leave who have not yet confirmed? I believe it is now only Force India, Torro Rosso and Sauber who have yet to confirm attendance?

 

[Jen]

Merc are definitely there.

 

[RasputinLives]

As an aside to the anticipation of what is always the extreme bore of the first test I shall give you a little quiz question.

Which driver got most track time in all of last years pre-season testing? Don't go googling it now and a free moustache for the winner.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

I'm taking a guess at Sutil as he had been out of F1 for a season or two and needed to get familiar with the Car/DRS/KERS. Other rookie drivers were in teams that barely made it to the grid.

 

[Bushi]

Didn't Ferrari run the most laps in testing last year?
So i guess Alonso.

 

[tooncheese]

Was it Chilton? He had most the tests to himself as Razia's money never showed.

 

[sushifiesta]

I think it might be one of the Mercedes drivers, I'm pretty sure Mercedes as a team either completed the most laps or at least they were consistently in the top few at each test day.

EDIT: I cheated and had a look - no one's got it yet! Although Rosberg was 2nd so I wasn't too far off.

 

[McZiderRed]

Massa..?

 

[Fenderman]

Vettel?

 

[Mephistopheles]

It has got to be Hamilton hasn't it joining a new team they would have wanted him to settle into the car, what with the wedge they payed him....

 

[sushifiesta]

I won't steal RasputinLives' thunder by revealing the answer or giving any big clues, but based on kilometres completed here are the ranks of the drivers mentioned so far:
Sutil - 22nd
Alonso - 11th
Chilton - 6th
Rosberg - 2nd
Massa - 13th
Vettel - 12th
Hamilton - 3rd

 

[Slyboogy]

Grosjean?

 

[Westy]

DiResta?

 

[sushifiesta]

Grosjean 14th, Di Resta 7th.

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

Kimi?

 

[sushifiesta]

Lotus completed the least laps of any team in 2013 testing:

Rosberg - 2nd
Hamilton - 3rd
Chilton - 6th
Di Resta - 7th
Alonso - 11th
Vettel - 12th
Massa - 13th
Grosjean - 14th
Kimi - 20th
Sutil - 22nd