2013 pre-season testing

Lots of "erm"s there... Nico obviously struggling to remember his lines... How many times can a team mention the word "step" in 24 hours for crying out loud!

 

Marussia's day:

Confirming it was a failure.

 

At the silverarrows, flushing the toilet is a step forward

 

Tobias Grüner F1 ‏@tgruener
#F1 Surprised to see supersoft tyres at #Jerez today. Teams allowed to chose 15 sets individually & Pirelli does not publish info on that.


Must of been a supersoft run then.

 

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Sun close to setting at the end of Testing, Jenson on Red SS tyres.

 

Silver looking a bit desperate already and its only day one!

 

Nah I just call BS from McLaren and the media saying that was a hard run when they don't even have the actual hard tyre itself...

 

I'm in agreement with you Silver about them using SS tyres. It just doesn't make sense to have 0.3 degradation on medium and 0.8 on hard.

 

Bloody heck Silver.
Something's in life are worth worrying about, this isn't.

 

Nevah?

It's simple if the tyre was white, they would of said a medium run in their reports on Jenson's run and not the Hard which is orange. Since I can't find 1 picture of the orange hard tyre and only a red SS tyre it seems to me the journalists reported it wrong when it was in fact a SS run that JB did and got confused with the tyres.

I'm not mad with JB, I just want accurate information coming my way from F1 media in general...

 

So every single journalist and track side reporter even as far as the official website are all wrong and McLaren are Lying? Erm...

I've looked and failed to find a single report suggesting the fast lap was on an SS run, and since we all know hoe little the times mean its hardly worth worrying about is it?

 

And I've yet to see 1 picture with Jenson on an orange set of tyres to prove me wrong that he did it on a Hard compound. All I've seen has been White Mediums and Red Super softs on JB's car, everybody else either used orange or white.

*And most of the modern world used to believe the world was flat and the people who said it was round were declared crazy until proven correct.

 

Even Webber noticed something: Webber on Jenson's lap time: "It's strong. I don't know what compound of tyre he was on but it's not a slow lap around here"

From McLaren themselves: The end of the day saw the team evaluate the effects of a series of mechanical set-up changes, using both the Supersoft and Hard Pirelli tyres.


They forget to bring up the white mediums they were also using, or maybe the Hard tyres never actually existed and everybody else is getting confused on what which tyre compounds are given.

 

Do you not think with all the hyper close analysis that Forumla One gets, someone would have called them out on it by now? Webber doesn't say anything there, that is more likely to mean he was interviewed before he had a chance to check.

 

I'm not sure why it even matters lol.
The McLaren (and the others) can probably go much faster on any of the tyres if they wanted to. For all we know that McLaren could have been on hards with half a tank of fuel.

 

All I have to say is Brazil 2012 to show a lot of things the worldwide media miss, orange lights believed to be yellow, F1 teams unable to know of marshal posts etc...

Like I said, all I saw was the medium tyre and the super soft tyre on the mclaren with all the pictures I saw from the start to the end in about 4 different sites. They never used the Hard orange compound from what I saw, they used the Red SS and White Medium only. The drop off was also too sharp to even be a hard compound, it was 7-8 tenths a lap, not 0.3 we saw from the mediums with Massa and Webber for example.

But I've yet to be proven wrong that Jenson never used an Orange set of hard tyres.

 

That failure does have a name...


Shows that Nepotism is overrated.

 

Well as always testing causes arguments over meaningless lap times. Really like the look of the Sauber, very pretty car by F1 standards. Caterham should be banned for insulting my eyes like that.

 

And since I'm a man of my word:

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There's an orange set of tyres I was after

He might be fast on qualifying but the drop off of them (if) they were the orange tyres were rapid! they wont last 5 laps at that rate (0.7-0.8 a lap) before he would have to pit. Still reckon the media are wrong though, never ever seen a gap so big of 8 tenths on guys with mediums, even the RB7 was never that fast against the rest of the field. If not, McLaren have an advantage of about 0.9-1.2 a lap already unless the rest are really sandbagging unlike McLaren or are on heavier fuel. 3-5 tenths possible, but a whole second? No chance IMO, that time was set on a SS run, that would still be about 4-5 tenths extra in hand over the medium runners which for me sounds about right to leave 0.250 ish against the likes of IRBR, Lotus and Ferrari.

 

Some good observtions from someone on Autosport: