Official: Testing Thread

Alonso overtakes Raikkonen.

[video=youtube;Zmfv3za-GRQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmfv3za-GRQ[/video]

 

For the first and last time this season in that ****box. Joking!!

 

Do we need a new thread for Mugello? I think not.

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[td]Team[/td]
[td]1 May[/td]
[td]2 May[/td]
[td]3 May[/td]
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[td]Red Bull[/td]
[td]Webber[/td]
[td]Webber (AM)
Vettel (PM)[/td]
[td]Vettel[/td]
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[td]McLaren[/td]
[td]Turvey (AM)
Paffet (PM)[/td]
[td]Paffet[/td]
[td]Turvey[/td]
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[td]Lotus[/td]
[td]d'Ambrosio[/td]
[td]Raikkonen[/td]
[td]Grosjean[/td]
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[td]Ferrari[/td]
[td]Alonso[/td]
[td]Massa[/td]
[td]Alonso[/td]
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[td]Mercedes[/td]
[td]Rosberg (AM)
Schumacher (PM)[/td]
[td]Schumacher[/td]
[td]Rosberg[/td]
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[td]Sauber[/td]
[td]Kobayashi[/td]
[td]Kobayashi[/td]
[td]Perez[/td]
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[td]Williams[/td]
[td]Bottas[/td]
[td]Senna[/td]
[td]Maldonado[/td]
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[td]Force India[/td]
[td]Bianchi[/td]
[td]di Resta[/td]
[td]Hulkenberg[/td]
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[td]Toro Rosso[/td]
[td]Vergne[/td]
[td]Vergne (AM)
Ricciardo (PM)[/td]
[td]Ricciardo[/td]
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[td]Marussia[/td]
[td]Pic[/td]
[td]Pic (AM)
Glock (PM)[/td]
[td]Glock[/td]
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[td]Caterham[/td]
[td]Gonzalez[/td]
[td]Petrov[/td]
[td]Kovalainen[/td]
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You may need to change McLarens as Lewis wants to come to Mugello, expect Jenson to follow suit, though I can still see Paffet and Turvey sharing the first day.

"I need to get back in the car. We need to figure out why the tyres are going off," he said.

"If there are other things to test or ways to figure out I will be the one to do it, not let someone else do it.

"We have a lot of work to do. There is no quick fix. We really have to make some big improvements to the car because the qualifying pace is there but the race pace was miles off."

 

are those the only 4 teams testing there? what about everyone else?

 

They haven't announced their line-ups yet. Have patience.

 

Wonder why Caterham have gone with Gonzalez. Doesn't exactly look top top quality.

In Edd Straw's words...

 

F1 is about raw income, i meant talent right ?

 

Thought they'd have gone for Razia on the third day. I think most teams will go for one day for each of their drivers and then a test/reserve driver on the third for equality (Ferrari obviously haven't bothered ), could mean seeing Buemi back in an F1 car.

Edit: I think McLaren will probably end up going for Paffett, Hamilton and Button. Unless Button decides he doesn't want to, Hamilton sounds pretty up for it.

 

Some updates:

Red Bull

Webber, Webber/Vettel, Vettel

Mercedes

Rosberg/Schumacher, Schumacher, Rosberg

Sauber

Kobayashi, Kobayashi, Perez

Force India

Bianchi, Di Resta, Hülkenberg

Marussia

Pic, Pic/Glock, Glock

Williams

Bottas, Senna, Maldonado

 

Where's that from, tomcat?

 

From german AMuS: http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-test-mugello-2012-fahrer-und-termine-4805918.html

 

They might have a mistake in the table though regarding Mercedes. In the text they talk about Schumacher driving the last day and show otherwise in the table. No clue whats right. We will soon find out i guess.

 

HRT will not attend.

 

Obviously, they don't do testing, not their thing

 

In the Malaysia GP2 race, he crashed into 5 or 6 drivers in the space of about 15 laps, before crashing out of the race.

 

Wow. Does he practise on F1 2011?

 

If possible, my opinion of HRT has just been lowered further. How can a team so lacking in performance not make the most of this one-off chance to get some decent track time. Terrible, terrible decision.

 

Lack of finance?

 

Now why would sauber only give Perez 1 day of testing, yet Kamui 2, unless they believe Perez won't be there much longer...