"Red Bull - If there's one thing I took from watching the RBR was how it was completely planted under braking. Webber took it into the final corner (which is a tricky downhill braking zone) with total confidence time and time again and it never looked out of shape. Hit the apex every time. Looked a little worse on traction but everything points to this car being "born the right way". Regular runs throughout the day. Purple looks great on the car. The car also has a distinct sound. Nice on track but like a cement mixer on the pit limiter." Sounds like a car designed for Seb IMO, great entry under breaking and losing a bit of exit traction in the process which is more Mark's field, more stability will also only help Seb drive into the corners which he loves, yet do nothing for Mark really. Seb said in 2012 he drives fast into the corner but slower out of it unlike Mark who is slow into the corner fast out of it.
Take this with a pinch of salt because it's been translated through Google... and AMuS have a recent history of being anti-Ferrari: It might just be that they've misinterpreted Massa's comment about Button's laptime being incredible, or Google has mistranslated it. There's also more on Button's speed in a separate article: That's ominous, although it's possible the drivers made these comments on the assumption that Button was on hard tyres.
Hmm considering how tight the Ferrari is I'm not surprised they do have some questionable heat problems, but then again nothing failed just like IRBR during the test unlike the McLaren who look to have race ending gremlins early on.
Yes that time was set on the hard Forza, was 16:51pm at Jerez when Jenson came into back into the pits after his run which was on that notebook and they were orange tyres. Jenson set that fastest lap on 16:47pm and came back into the pits at 16:52pm
Watching Teds notebook and the McLaren was shown being wheeled back into the garage with about 5 mins to go in testing on the Orange tyre. I think that was after his 3 lap run in which he set the quick time?
McLaren must be pushing early then with regards to upgrades with that speed. He was losing 0.7 to 0.8 a lap with his tyres, with the hards I might add!
Despite the surprise from the drivers on the McLaren speed, the track is very specific and the speed may not translate to other tracks.
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I thought it was widely agreed that slow-in; fast-out was the way to go generally? Surprised to see Vettel bucking the trend.
Indeed Seb's style is very unorthodox, that's why you see him go wider more of the time than most people. Take Canada for example, they reckoned Seb went wide at the hairpin when actually Seb does in on purpose for a better exit. [video=youtube;kT5Y-aMLpZ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT5Y-aMLpZ0[/video]
Be interesting to see how much if at all Perez and Hamilton's programmes for tommorow are affected by their teams reliability issues today. Mercedes in particular would have very little data so far, could be a while till we see their true pace if they are effectively a day behind everyone else.
Another brilliant video here. You get to see Grosjean going off the track (which PayasYouRace described): [video=youtube;YoAr2N9yWRM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=YoAr2N9yWRM[/video] There's a couple more things to post, from the BBC: First of all, a little bit more on Button's 1m18.8 - The quotes from Grosjean and Hulk in AMuS suggest they aren't capable of going that fast, so it was clearly a low fuel run from McLaren. Webber said it was "not a slow lap around here" which implies he could have matched it, and despite Massa describing the time as incredible, he says he could have comfortably matched it: Also Benson has gone to the trouble of calculating everyone's average laptime on day one. He says McLaren fastest by far, Ferrari slightly faster than Red Bull, Lotus and Toro Rosso both decent too. Benson also adds he did the same calculations last year and they turned out to be "basically right".
Anyone else surprised in Forza's video there how nervous the Ferrari, and especially the Caterham, looked through the slow chicane?
Also, has anyone tried following the BBC live text this morning. So far, literally every other comment is about Lewis Hamilton.
He hasn't been mentioned for 22 minutes now, a record for Benson. But seriously, why does everyone get so crcoked up over Hamilton being mentioned in anything? The other drivers get just as many mentions but it seems everyone gets upset when he gets mentioned. Perhaps Mercedes are missing a marketing ploy and should have changed his name to 'Fabio Wonderboy' so people will think its someone different and not complain so much.
Not they dont. I used control-f, "Hamilton" mentioned 16 times already, next highest driver has 8, thats Razia because he signed a contract, most have about 4.
