"Mercedes has now confirmed that the brake pressure on the rear axle has been missing suddenly and led to the crash. Wings, nose and suspension are damaged."
3 hours to fix they reckon... Supervisory boss Niki Lauda moaned: "This is really annoying Yesterday almost the whole day of testing with the devil, again today the half.." http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/...amilton-crash-nach-bremsversagen-6587986.html
I'm just wondering how Mercedes are planning on rectifying these issues as well as starting proper testing, where other teams are miles ahead now, in terms of data collection (they actually are). The fact that they ended last year near the STR's does not help, so they haven't even got a good basis to start on. What a start to a season eh. No winding up intended by the way.
Fancy Ferrari rear wing please log in to view this image Blocked up Lotus PDRS please log in to view this image RB rear please log in to view this image
Where is the exhaust? I can't see the opening, it is the protruding shape just on the back of the sidepod?
thejudge13 ‏@thejudge13 #f1 Massa massive spin coming into the pits, backwards across the grass and into track facing wrong way. Pics on mrs j cam. Later on site
For all the bad vibes with Merc, Hamilton had posted some reasonable times before the crash to provide some hope on the pace of the car.
Indeed, not as slow as I thought it would be, only 4 tenths off the Lotus with the same tyres. Just need to see the Sauber, McLaren, Ferrari and IRBR on them now. The car looks about equal with Force India, just reliability to sort out and a few refinements could give hopefully a couple of tenths before Barcelona.
Oh yeah early days, but 1.19.5 respectable at this stage. At least he didn't crash with just a 1.22 or something like that on the board.
My eyes are deceiving me. EDIT: Chris, yeah to be fair that is a respectable time to say he had only just gone out. Red flag? Romain has blasted in a flyer btw.
