Well when you do less than 30 laps over 2 days that isn't a time to be happy is it? I know problems will happen, but to that degree shouldn't happen in modern day F1.
I have no idea where you pull your logic from. If you get to the first race and are still struggling to get to grips with the car, then you might be in trouble. While not ideal, some teething trouble is also not unexpected.
I disagree with this. It's the first test, and the first time these cars have hit the road, there's bound to be issues. The entire nature of F1 means these cars are right on the limit of our understanding of aero, engineering, etc, the teams will expect problems. Frankly if you turn up to testing and go through all 12 days without a single problem then you haven't pushed the car design far enough.
Nahhh - I get 20 million a season and get to leave the race early and beat the traffic! or I got 99 problems but my salary aint one!
http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1...seemed-more-downbeat-than-earlier-in-the-week Felipe Massa fastest on Day Three but seemed more downbeat than earlier in the week http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/105483 Felipe Massa insists Jenson Button's fastest time from Tuesday at Jerez remains very impressive, despite the Ferrari driver beating it on Thursday.
Don't get the hype with the Jenson run on hards, Barcelona days 3-4 will give the best clue to who is fast and who is not.
Unfortunately he wasn't on a boat at the time, but he's still learning, even at the grand old age of 30 something.
When they start awarding points for the most laps at qualifying pace then you might have a point... Until then, testing is there to serve the purpose of getting the car ready to race.
I don't understand why Massa keeps going on about it when Ferrari have already said they are sticking to their own programme and not focusing on the laptimes. The only real surprise is that McLaren went for a low fuel glory run, they don't usually do that in testing. As for the actual laptime, there could be a number of reasons why he went so fast: - For all we know he could have been on fumes - Even if he denies it, he may have been using DRS throughout the lap. It's not unlike McLaren to lie and cheat. - Button was doing set-up work earlier, whereas Ferrari only started this in the afternoon of day two (not sure about Red Bull) - His next lap was much slower suggesting he was either pushing his car to the limit, or.....he cut the chicane: BUSTED!
They are still way off the pace, as Hamilton confirmed when he said they had less downforce than the MP4-27. And McLaren decided not to do a simple evolution of the MP4-27 because they thought it wouldn't be enough.
True... but we're only three days in to testing and things can change by the end of the testing program. If they arrive at the first race still as a mid-field team, then there has to be some serious questions asked. Axing personnel during this period would likely do more harm than good. It's a bit early to look for blood.
And if all of that wasn't enough, Hembery says "we have not seen the differences between the compounds that we would have liked" so Button's time on hard tyres wasn't that special. Hembery also says the hard tyre is working well. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/105476 A 1:18.861 is NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
