Official: Testing Thread

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cosicave said:
Despite having just 1.75 drivers, at this stage I really cannot see Mercedes finishing lower than 4th.
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That's a bit unfair, I'm sure Rosberg will come good this season.

I expect Mercades to be right at the front by the end of the season, I think they might truggle at the start but they might get a win or two by the end. I think they have got some good people in some important areas and that will begive to bear fruit.

I also think that next season they will be the number 1 Mercades powered team.
 
Good information from Gary Anderson :
Gary Anderson said:
"I've been watching the cars out on the track this morning, down at the chicane at Turns seven and eight. The Ferrari looks particularly difficult to drive - Fernando Alonso has caught a couple of lurid slides when he lost rear-end grip. He's trying to drive the car he wants to have rather than the car he has. Felipe Massa was also struggling yesterday, but the way he drives the car looks nervous. Alonso just makes it slide. The Red Bull looks neat and tidy, although it does build up a bit of understeer. The Ferrari looks like it has very 'peaky' grip whereas the Red Bull looks more comfortable to drive. I suspect if the drivers were to really have a go, the pace of the two cars would be close, but you'd be less likely to make a mistake in the Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton has not done many laps - and when he has been out the McLaren has looked heavy with fuel."
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New Ferrari parts arrived this morning and Ferrari were testing their new front wing. The biggest changes (from the pictures Ive seen) are to the endplates. I would post them here but I cant do it from my phone.

About the Byrne floor Genji, the only reliable thing I've heard is that the wind tunnel and CFD simulations showed an improvement of 3-4 tenths (the same source says that there will be visible changes on F2012 tomorrow - I've been following this guy since 2010 and hes never been wrong before). There are other rumours about a heated floor and another which says there are holes in the floor but I dont trust them.
 
Forza Ferrari said:
There are other rumours about a heated floor and another which says there are holes in the floor but I dont trust them.
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Thanks, Forza. Here's your wing, courtesy of Crucial_Xtreme on F1Technical (new wing on top):

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I think the new wing looks like a retrograde step in that they tried something innovative with the cutaway and then reverted to a flat face because it didn't work. Maybe they just do different things, though, and are suited to different demands.
 
El_Bando said:
erm....why are some cars out on unmarked tyres?
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According to Autosport, they are the same as Soft compond but made at a different plant. They are being tested in case anything happens to their plant in turkey.
 
Here's a little bit from Autosport re Mercedes and Lotus:
Autosport said:
15:28 This is a very promising race simulation for Grosjean, who is doing consistent 1m28s - a similar pace to Alonso, but the Ferrari is on mediums and the Lotus on hards.

15:32 Schumacher is losing a lot of time across this run on soft tyres - in the space of five laps, he has gone from 1m23s to 1m26s.
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In seven laps Schumacher actually lost about four seconds a lap.
 
To provide evidence from the timesheet of Alonso's stint on those soft tyres prior to the switch to mediums that Ted talked about, here's how his lap times fell away dramatically at the end: 1:28.193, 1:28.868, 1:28.840, 1:29.096, 1:28.884, 1:28.874, 1:29.422, 1:29.596, 1:30.060, 1:30.160, 1:31.197, 1:31.598

Here’s how Grosjean’s third stint on the softs stacked up in comparison to the Ferrari: 1:28.223, 1:28.153, 1:28.233, 1:28.509, 1:28.739, 1:28.527, 1:28.586, 1:28.939, 1:29.463, 1:29.472
 
Autosport said:
15:41 Alex emails with a brilliant variation on F1/food links:

"On a tangential note, for a few years now myself and a bunch of friends have been watching races as part of what we call our "F1 Foodies" group: each race one memb er of the group hosts. Everyone else comes over to watch the race, and the host gets to choose a lunch(/dinner) menu to cook. The twist being that the food *must* be from the country that the race is being held in. We've had some great feasts over the years! I made kimchi from scratch for Korea last year - quite an experience..."
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Stole my idea! :emoticon-0183-swear
 
The Ferrari is looking much improved, I think they may just have the car Alonso will need to at least have a chance at a title fight, good work getting what was looking like a dog of a car up to speed <ok>
That said they still look a distance off the Red Bull.

As for McLaren, they look like they're up to something. I'm hoping they're staying heavy to hide speed but they could be trying anything tbh.
 
Autosprint say that Ferrari were on used tyres for their race sim, while Lotus were using new tyres. This explains why Ferrari's tyre deg was so bad.

Alonso's race simulation (57 laps)
--Stint 1 (medium tyres), 9 laps, 1.30's with a few 1.31's
--Stint 2 (soft tyres), 8 laps, started with low 1.29's up to 1.32
--Stint 3 (soft tyres), 12 laps from low 1.28's to mid 1.31's
--Stint 4 (medium tyres), 14 laps from mid 1.27's to mid 1.29's
--Stint 5 (medium tyres), 14 laps from mid 1.24's to high 1.26's
 
The lotus just seems quick. I know we've been fooled by testing before, but Grosjean looks like an outside bet at some podiums this season, he's been driving well.
 
Schumacher went off on the hard tyres apparently corner 6-7 were his two problems respectively. His car just didn't turn in.. no contact with the barriers.
Less time worrying about reliability, more on performance for Mercedes. Looking good "apparently".
Sort it out Mercedes.
 
EternalMSC said:
Schumacher went off on the hard tyres apparently corner 6-7 were his two problems respectively. His car just didn't turn in.. no contact with the barriers.
Less time worrying about reliability, more on performance for Mercedes. Looking good "apparently".
Sort it out Mercedes.
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So it's a worthless heap of garbage then, just like last year's car, and the year before.
 
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