Good luck getting through all the races if thats classed as high mileage. Especially if it's not at full power.
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Good luck getting through all the races if thats classed as high mileage. Especially if it's not at full power.
If you think Mercedes have not been at full power, the others are in for a right dicking when they turn it up to 100%
Ok testing over. Let's now read too much into this and throw a Vettel style 'hissy fit' before it all STARTs
Good luck getting through all the races if thats classed as high mileage. Especially if it's not at full power.
They might blow up after 3 races instead of the required 5, but at least it wont be at every GP like 95% of the grid will suffer with
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Stefano Domenicali says Ferrari are behind Mercedes and Williams on pace at present but cd change in Melbourne. McL & FIndia also up there
Stefano Domenicali says Ferrari are behind Mercedes and Williams on pace at present but cd change in Melbourne. McL & FIndia also up there
Don't forget to enter in the predictions poll here: http://www.not606.com/showthread.ph...ctions!!!!-(((now-with-100pts-up-for-grabs)))
Nobody is 100% confident going into Australia. Ferrari can still win the race, as can Williams, Mercedes, Mclaren or Force India.
Seb should become a team principle after his driving days, just has a knack not to make his own teams horrible situation sound like not a big deal to the media.
Bahrain F1 test: Red Bull not fast enough reckons Sebastian Vettel http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112736
Sebastian Vettel has admitted that Red Bull does not have the pace to trouble Formula 1's leading teams even if it did have a reliable car.
The German completed 77 laps on the final day of pre-season testing in Bahrain, the most a Red Bull has managed on a single day, but an attempt to complete a race distance failed.
He set the ninth fastest time of the final day of running, 4.190s off pacesetter Lewis Hamilton's best time of the day, but despite being concerned about speed he also believes that Red Bull has bigger problems to solve.
"Yeah, we are; it's not a secret," said Vettel when asked if he was concerned about Red Bull's laptimes.
"We cannot do the times that the guys at the top are doing for a couple of reasons, but at the moment we have bigger problems to solve than just the pace."
With only 11 days between the end of winter testing and the start of free practice for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Vettel accepts that Red Bull is playing catch-up
But he is hopeful that Red Bull can use this time to improve the car both in terms of reliability and pace.
"It's very difficult, but I'm not calling us favourites for that," he said of Red Bull's chances in the Australian Grand Prix.
"We haven't done enough laps, the speed is not there compared to some other teams so we have to wait and see when we get there.
"But surely things will calm down. We have to use the two weeks that we have until then to fit new parts to the car and build it to the best knowledge that we currently have."
Red Bull has completed just 1711km during pre-season testing, ahead only of Marussia and Lotus. By contrast, Mercedes has logged almost 5000km.
Bahrain F1 test: Red Bull not fast enough reckons Sebastian Vettel http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112736
Sebastian Vettel has admitted that Red Bull does not have the pace to trouble Formula 1's leading teams even if it did have a reliable car.
The German completed 77 laps on the final day of pre-season testing in Bahrain, the most a Red Bull has managed on a single day, but an attempt to complete a race distance failed.
He set the ninth fastest time of the final day of running, 4.190s off pacesetter Lewis Hamilton's best time of the day, but despite being concerned about speed he also believes that Red Bull has bigger problems to solve.
"Yeah, we are; it's not a secret," said Vettel when asked if he was concerned about Red Bull's laptimes.
"We cannot do the times that the guys at the top are doing for a couple of reasons, but at the moment we have bigger problems to solve than just the pace."
With only 11 days between the end of winter testing and the start of free practice for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Vettel accepts that Red Bull is playing catch-up
But he is hopeful that Red Bull can use this time to improve the car both in terms of reliability and pace.
"It's very difficult, but I'm not calling us favourites for that," he said of Red Bull's chances in the Australian Grand Prix.
"We haven't done enough laps, the speed is not there compared to some other teams so we have to wait and see when we get there.
"But surely things will calm down. We have to use the two weeks that we have until then to fit new parts to the car and build it to the best knowledge that we currently have."
Red Bull has completed just 1711km during pre-season testing, ahead only of Marussia and Lotus. By contrast, Mercedes has logged almost 5000km.
Whilst he can put a brave face on it now, how long will it last once the season starts?
I've no doubt 4 WDC's will have mellowed him out a bit so he can be pragmatic about one bad season, but underneath his skin I reckon he is seething about how bad things are at the moment.
I've no doubt 4 WDC's will have mellowed him out a bit so he can be pragmatic about one bad season, but underneath his skin I reckon he is seething about how bad things are at the moment.
Jut watch what happens if the RB10 is not competitive this season. Rocky, Horner and Newey will have to run for cover as Justin B launches dummy from his pram LOL.
I still don't get that, Vettel looks nothing like Justin Bieber IMO. Isn't like Lewis looks like Eddie Murphy or Nico looks like Britney Spears.
All he said was that Mercedes and Williams were better prepared because they've done more mileage than Ferrari. Nothing more.
