Sky will be showing live coverage of the third test! The show will be two and a half hours and will also be broadcasted in 3D.
Yesterday, who did what on what: [TABLE="width: 0"] [TR] [TD]Driver[/TD] [TD]Car[/TD] [TD]Best time[/TD] [TD]Laps[/TD] [TD]Difference[/TD] [TD]Tyres[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]Jenson Button[/TD] [TD]McLaren-Mercedes MP4-28[/TD] [TD]1’18.861[/TD] [TD]37[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]Hard[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]Mark Webber[/TD] [TD]Red Bull-Renault RB9[/TD] [TD]1’19.709[/TD] [TD]73[/TD] [TD]0.848[/TD] [TD]Medium[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]Romain Grosjean[/TD] [TD]Lotus-Renault E21[/TD] [TD]1’19.796[/TD] [TD]54[/TD] [TD]0.935[/TD] [TD]Hard[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4[/TD] [TD]Paul di Resta[/TD] [TD]Force India-Mercedes VJM06[/TD] [TD]1’20.343[/TD] [TD]89[/TD] [TD]1.482[/TD] [TD]Medium[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]Daniel Ricciardo[/TD] [TD]Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR8[/TD] [TD]1’20.401[/TD] [TD]70[/TD] [TD]1.540[/TD] [TD]Hard[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]6[/TD] [TD]Felipe Massa[/TD] [TD]Ferrari F138[/TD] [TD]1’20.536[/TD] [TD]64[/TD] [TD]1.675[/TD] [TD]Medium[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]7[/TD] [TD]Nico Hulkenberg[/TD] [TD]Sauber-Ferrari C32[/TD] [TD]1’20.699[/TD] [TD]79[/TD] [TD]1.838[/TD] [TD]Hard[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]8[/TD] [TD]Nico Rosberg[/TD] [TD]Mercedes W04[/TD] [TD]1’20.846[/TD] [TD]14[/TD] [TD]1.985[/TD] [TD]Medium[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]9[/TD] [TD]Pastor Maldonado[/TD] [TD]Williams-Renault FW34[/TD] [TD]1’20.864[/TD] [TD]84[/TD] [TD]2.003[/TD] [TD]Medium[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]14[/TD] [TD]Giedo van der Garde[/TD] [TD]Caterham-Renault CT03[/TD] [TD]1’21.915[/TD] [TD]64[/TD] [TD]3.054[/TD] [TD]Soft[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]23[/TD] [TD]Max Chilton[/TD] [TD]Marussia-Cosworth MR02[/TD] [TD]1’24.176[/TD] [TD]29[/TD] [TD]5.315[/TD] [TD]Medium[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Sneaky aero rake: please log in to view this image
Interesting shot of the wing infront of the sidepod directing the coanda airflow, there's an extra hole at the bottom which collects the airflow from the bargeboard: please log in to view this image
Somebody please tell us what is said here: http://plus.autosport.com/premium/feature/5123/2013-f1-cars-the-trackside-verdict/
Or.... First impressions mean very little, but they aren't entirely meaningless and already there have been some glimpses of the characteristics of these new steeds. Surprisingly, the most eye-catching car of the day was the Toro Rosso. The team has set a pretty lofty target of rising to sixth in the constructors' championship, but the new STR9 looked wonderfully driveable. That's not to say that it looked spectacularly quick, merely that it seemed to be one of the more responsive cars out that. Daniel Ricciardo spends most of his time grinning anyway, so there's no mileage in reading anything into his smiles in the evening. But the fact that he was actively trying to keep a lid on his enthusiasm for the new car told you everything you needed to know. At this stage of last year, the Toro Rosso was a tricky machine to drive with a back end that, at times, looked pretty vicious. But at Jerez on Tuesday, it was a completely different beast. The rear responded wonderfully to the throttle, and when Ricciardo asked too much of the front end into the rapid Turn 9 and went too deep into the corner, he was able to recover it beautifully by rotating the rear without losing too much momentum. There were plenty of other times when the ability to drive the car using the very responsive rear was in evidence, which suggests that, at the very least, Toro Rosso has the user-friendly platform it needs to build on. Whether it has the downforce to climb the midfield, however, is another matter. The Lotus, in the hands of Romain Grosjean, was very reminiscent of the same stage last year. Driveable, relatively settled over the kerbs and allowing the driver to commit to the maximum almost immediately. Granted, Grosjean is a pretty confident driver, but there's nothing to suggest that Lotus can't continue its progress. Perhaps the biggest difference between day one at Jerez between last year and this was with Ferrari. Felipe Massa has already talked up the car and the evidence on track supports him. In 2012, getting the car from turn in to the apex was a pretty frustrating and inconsistent experience, but on Tuesday the Brazilian had a car under him that showed none of the more troublesome vices of its predecessor in the early running. Mark Webber admitted that Red Bull was struggling with understeer and again that was visible on track, although as his testing programme meant that he completed very few laps while I was watching trackside. Our technical correspondent Gary Anderson had the chance for a far better look at it. "Whenever the car was running out of grip on entry, it was difficult to sort out and the front end tended to wash out," says Gary. "But it's very much dependent on fuel load and it looked like the car was running fairly heavy. "I'd expect to see some significant changes to the car between now and Melbourne anyway so there's nothing to get particularly worried about at this stage." The Sauber looked wonderfully nimble in the hands of Nico Hulkenberg, although it appeared to be running a relatively light fuel load. There were a few lock-ups into the slower corners, suggesting that the preference that the Swiss team's machines have often had for the quicker stuff continues this year. Plenty of Force India's running appeared to be on heavy fuel loads, which made the car look a little cumbersome at times, but despite a number of lock-ups during a long run, Paul di Resta looked relatively comfortable even though there was nothing to suggest that the team had made a giant stride forward. Among all of these provisional conclusions, the one for which there is the most compelling visual evidence is that none of these teams has had a disaster with their baseline car concept. Most have a lot of parts still to come, so there is a long way to go yet. Not that any of this is a surprise. With no major rule changes and 'evolution' by far the most popular word used during launch season, this year was never likely to be about massive strides forward or game-changing concepts.
12:16 Ferrari is among the teams stopping for lunch, but here's what it plans to do afterwards: "The afternoon session will continue with an analysis of different exhaust systems." I've heard that sentence before. ALERT! ALERT! Ferrari in trouble.......jk
12:23 Confused about tyre choices for the first test? Pirelli, as ever, is happy to explain: "We had some questions on the supersoft. Pirelli chose 20 sets of tyres per team (all the same), none of which was a supersoft. Each team could then chose a further 15 sets, some of which may have been a supersoft but that's not for us to comment. All clear now? "Fastest time yesterday was set by Jenson Button on the new orange hard compound. Jenson's time was 1.18.861. Fastest time last year on day 1 was 1:19.670, set on a medium. "So the first tendancy shows that this year's hard compound is faster than last year's medium - that's what we wanted to achieve." PIRELLI READS THIS FORUM!!!!
Those are yes. *If you look closely you can see McLaren have put red aero paint on the monkey seat so that part could be new today.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tobias Grüner F1 ‏@tgruener #F1 Bad news for Mercedes. 2nd testing day in #Jerez is over. They have to replace the brake lines. AMuS live: http://ticker.auto-motor-und-sport.de/ Lewis is ****ed now! Even worse than the W02
Hamilton seen running back to McLaren with cap in hand ready to kiss arse and perform any and all PR duties!
