2016 Pre-Season Testing Thread

That bottom-left pic should be their livery. I like it.

 

That's lovely. BAR Honda esque with the split

 

Pretty sexy car that!

Anyone care to do a pecking order with the one day to go, or are you afraid of the banzai lap tomorrow?!

 

Each person can add to the list as we go down!

I'll start

1. Merc
2. ...

 

1. Mercedes
2. Ferrari
3. ...

We've done the hard bit's now

 

11. Renault.

 

Torro Rosso podium at Bahrain

 

I get the feeling that manor will outdo sauber thus year. Well, one of the manors. Not fast by any stretch of the imagination but hopefully consistent and 'up there'

 

Seems this new halo design is actually just Ferrari marketing shoes.

 

My thoughts exactly.

Completely agree with the last sentence. They're making the cars into monstrosities, for a marginal, or even debatable increase in safety. It could possibly have killed Massa, if it had deflected it down an inch at the very least he'd have lost an eye.

 

On Ferrari, I'm starting to feel a little more optimistic about the season. Ferrari appear to have decent pace. Also Hamilton's comments have been very negative, he's been critical of the new tyres, and seems less enthused with the car than Rosberg does, perhaps its characteristics so far are more suited to Rosberg and we could see a bit more competition within Mercedes this year.

 

Hamilton does a 1:24.6 on mediums. Accounting for a 2 second delta- is that the equivalent of a 1:22.6 on softs?

 

Hamilton wants a proper go:

"I feel good in the car, we've not really pushed it to the limit in terms of qualifying laps," said the world champion.

"I've had a couple of fast laps, but in terms of really putting the car on a knife-edge and homing in on the set-up and everything - I don't really know.

"I've done three or four laps in a lower attacking mode in terms of fuel.

"Now it's about trying to understand the car on a knife-edge - that I haven't experienced much.

"So hopefully in the morning I can have a bit of that before the first race."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123097

 

Hamilton 1:24.1 MEDIUM

Ricciardo 1:24.8 MEDIUM

 

I just so want the Merc to go bang under racing conditions

 

Ern! What did you do that Merecedes?!?

 

Huh. They finally broke it.

 

They are saying transmission problem.

 

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