Sorry I refuse to acknowledge them let alone say their name or eat a curry again. I've blocked them on twitter and Facebook so I can no longer see their ****ty sponsors. I'm already devising a plan on how to block them on my tv screen by blanking them entirely out. You **** with Binachi's hard earned points you **** with me and a lot of other f1 fans.
Still not looking good for McLaren... They have wasted a filming day too now http://www.f1today.net/en/news/198988/mclaren-shows-no-signs-of-improvement-on-filming-day
I would be very surprised if they have not made significant improvements. I thought McL made the standard ECU (so they should be very good at that aspect of the power unit integration). I thought they also made the energy storage and recovery system (not too sure on the F1 power unit but they have experience in Formula E as McL make the power unit systems). So overall Honda are purely responsible for the internal combustion side of things, well I think they are? I would find it shocking that the problems are with the ic engine as that will have, at minimum, run on a test bed for hundreds if not thousands of hrs. I really do hope that McL start in Australia with a semi decent power unit. Hopefully Merc wont be too far in front but I suspect they will have gained more than the rest so still be 1-2sec in front.
With this new technology improvements happen very, very quickly. And that's not simply being a blind optimist- look at Red Bull last year for example. Couldn't do anything and then rocked up 2nd at Melbourne. Sounds like niggly little things rather than a major flaw so when they iron things out I think they'll do very well. And F1 is a strange sport sometimes- a Renault-powered car won in Belgium and Canada in 2014, something I'd have bet a lot of money on not happening! Really important 4 days coming up for them in terms of learning about the car and getting mileage. Then the final test we might begin to get a small idea of their actual pace.
Renault Predict Significant Performance Upgrade by Melbourne 2015 Renault are on course to make substantial gains with their 2015 Formula One power unit before the season-opening race in Australia, according to chief technical officer Rob White. The French manufacturer made sweeping changes to their power unit over the winter in a push to reduce a 2014 performance deficit to Mercedes. And while reliability issues hampered Red Bull and Toro Rosso's running in this year's first pre-season test at Jerez, Renault are confident that big strides will be made before the first race in Melbourne on March 15. "First and foremost we need to run reliably, be quick and closer to front," White told Renault's F1 website. "Our honest expectation is that we will make a decent improvement but it is difficult to quantify the gain relative to our competitors who will also progress. "What we can say is that we are on course to make a significant performance step and resolve the principal reliability weaknesses by the time we get to the first race." White added that Renault had opted to use most of their engine development tokens prior to the 2015 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix in order to deliver big performance gains - but said deciding future upgrades is a "juggling act". "We have used the majority of the tokens for the first race and our use of tokens during the course of the season will be relatively modest," White explained. "It then becomes a matter of strategy about when you introduce the remaining tokens; whether to introduce at the start of the season when the technology is relatively immature but could give greater relative performance, or later in the season when the part has had more testing miles but the impact on performance will be potentially less. "Clearly the juggling act we need to perform is which areas of the power unit are the most worthwhile to attack for performance reasons. We have therefore prioritised token spend to make as much headway as possible with performance." Interesting that Renault have gone hard at it straight away. Might be **** or bust time then in the first couple of weekends for Red Bull & Torro Rosso.
Not my proudest moment ever, but Lewis is dating somebody else now it seems. I'm sorry I let the side down ; ( Nico wdc confirmed.
Just to let you know, due to focussing on my education for a bit, I will have to stop doing chat and predictions until around Summer time. I hope whoever takes over can do just as good a job. Vacancies exclude anybody going by the name of: Jonny. Mr. Baws. Jo. Bawsy. Jonnybaws. J.B please mind the pun. JJ Lehto. John. Or jon. Due to an incapability of collating predictions properly. Thank You.
Mercedes have brought their 2015 rear wing, being hidden upon returning to the pits. Ferrari gone straight to top of the time sheets and McLaren have reached 11 laps before 09:30, slotting in 2nd on the timesheets at the moment. Merc and Williams seemingly doing their own thing again at the moment- keep a close eye on their times as we progress to days 3 and 4. please log in to view this image
"Given we're little over an hour into the week's running on a 'green' and chilly track, it's already quite impressive that the early fastest time here is already just two seconds adrift of last year's pole. It wasn't a surprise to see the 2015 cars significantly faster at Jerez than was the case 12 months ago, but these two days at the Circuit de Catalunya will give us a better read on the relative performance improvements." 2014 Pole (Hamilton) of 1m 25.232s 2013 1st Day Test 2 (Rosberg) of 1m 22.616s 2013 4th Day Test 3 (Rosberg) of 1m 20.130s
McLaren seem to have finally installed the spark plugs the right way up and got that thing running properly for a bit. Lewis is so sick with excitement at the prospect of another dominant year he has parked up. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117729?_ga=1.239705475.1273799173.1398675361
Williams doing long runs with Susie, she is consistently 1m32 for 17 laps on hard tyres. Running to a delta time?
Bit of a bummer for Mercedes and Hamilton! please log in to view this image http://www.f1today.net/en/live/2015/02/19/circuit-de-catalunya
More bad news for McLaren ENGINE PROBLEM ENDS DAY FOR MCLAREN McLaren is done for the day. An engine problem has ended the day prematurely. The MGU-K has failed and an engine change is needed.
@tedkravitz: And it was all looking so good: McLaren have a faulty seal on MGU-K that can't be redesigned until Saturday..
