Official: Testing Thread

RED FLAG! Medical helicopter grounded due to bad weather so I think the session's over.

Alonso fastest. We should have done a sweepstakes for testing.

EDIT: testing resumes. Thanks, BBC 5Live.

 

anybody got a list of times to post then?

 

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Would love to see them nick a point this year, become lower midfield by next year

 

Out of curiosity how come there is no text commentary/sign of f1 activity on the bbc page?

 

Government cutbacks.

 

Wow. Just didn't understand why, there was plenty of coverage (well at least text commentary, team tweets etc) for the pre-season tests. Rather stupid

 

Not even Autosports live text coverage is happening. Everyone must be on holiday.




Damp...

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I think it's just cost cutting. Pre-season testing is much more significant than this three-day test on a circuit that isn't representative of F1 circuits generally so it's not something media outlets really need to commit to. Natalie Pinkham has been in Hungary following Button's antics so Sky aren't that bothered.

 

Some people are still interested

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he seems to be misunderstanding Brawn asking him for consistency

 

No Raikkonen this week. He can't be arsed with the bullshit.

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Oh dear lotus, school boy error number 1!

Always supply ice creams for the iceman when it's raining.

 

McLaren had the same issue in Jerez so at least the gasses are going roughly where they should be. The best part about today was Alonso's lap times on his long stint - they didn't drop off so quickly like they did in Jerez (when the exhaust was overheating the rear tyres). I hope this means they've finally sorted out their exhaust problems, so they could use this configuration in Spain if their Sauber exhaust doesn't work.

 

Day 1 - Top Speed (KPH)
1. Alonso - 229.02
2. Webber - 225.73
3. Vergne - 225.07
4. D'Ambrosio - 224.65
5. Rosberg - 224.51
6. Kobayashi - 222.83
7. Turvey - 221.35
8. Bianchi - 220.90
9. Gonzalez - 216.54
10. Pic - 216.14
11. Bottas - 211.73
12. Paffett - 170.26

 

Paffett only knows up to 5th gear

Given how damp and merky it was out there I doubt any of the teams got to push their tyres as much as they would have liked to see how they can maintain wear.

Nico Rosberg got to drive the furthest today. Slightly less than the distance from Manchester to Bristol

 

So what's the word about the people saying that exhaust layout on the ferrari is illegal?

 

Apparently it is, but theres nothing stopping them doing it in tests for "comparisons" [Various twitter 'ers]

 

It's only testing. They're just trying things out. I don't think there's much to say.

 

In news from Sauber:

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Sauber sensors on floor and beside the roll hoop, the new sidepod\exhaust aided by reshaped rear wishbones