2013 pre-season testing

So only the IRBR and Sauber lasted the whole 4 days without a problem?

 

That's how I know we are all desperate for some competitive action. 17th March cannot come soon enough!

 

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Raikkonen and Hamilton collect the time and laps trophy woop.

The rest might as well not bother with the season

 

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jerez testing best time fluctuation

 

We can all pop along and talk about it amongst ourselves rather than on here!

 

Clearly Seb isn't just fighting Lewis anymore, but Aldo Costa as well!

 

Well both Lewis and Nico are looking happier with the car now, hopefully the engineers got tons of data to take home with them and that they can find a few solutions to help got those 2 further up the front.

DRD looked to be well used, reckon Mercedes are getting closer to a fully working version now after the lengths they used it today. Lewis also mentioned a new package coming soon and felt the core package was solid enough to evolve with

Just need more downforce, cooling, and reliability and they're set for the season I reckon. Tyre wear looks decent, everybody looked a bit short anyway since Jerez is a tyre eater.

 

Get the open top bus out.

 

So the Sauber, which everyone was worried about cooling with their narrow sidepods, was one of the most consistent and reliable cars all test... interesting.

 

Speaking of Sauber I came across this picture of the inside of one:

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Total laps from the BBC:

1 Sauber 430

2 Red Bull 372

3 Force India 357

4 Williams 332 -2012 car

5 Toro Rosso 330

6 Mercedes 319

7 Caterham 318

8 McLaren 298

9 Ferrari 277

10 Lotus 271

11 Marussia 219

 

Wow that sidepods tight on the Sauber. From what I've read, it's been relatively cool in Jerez, so cooling was probably not a great issue. In hotter locales they may still have issues with cooling. As for Ferrari, if they have cooling issues now (especially in cockpit), that could be a serious problem (especially for drivers) at the same races.

 

So if 148 laps was the distance from London to Paris, whats 145 laps?

London to the outskirts of Paris?

 

That's what I thought, could cost them in Australia, Malaysia and Bahrain before they're able sort it out.

 

Bet they can't wait for Singapore, mmm toasty.

 

Good job 'slimjim' Alonso has been putting in the training as he knew this was an issue with the design concept as he is the most complete driver on the grid.

 

Well now we have to wait again for 10? days.
Let the generating of stories out of nothing begin!

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His BMI is the most complete on the grid

 

Ross Brawn has said updates coming to next test and Melbourne package to be tested in the final test.