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AbsolutelyGlorious said:
Just heard the Caterham and STR on Sky, it's unbelievable how bad they sound, stuttering, misfiring. This is disastrous. I wonder what the FIA will do if this continues, they supply over a third of the grid and they're not going to be able to qualify at this rate.
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I very much doubt they'll do anything; it's obvious people don't care that the RB won't be competitive, let alone the lesser teams, looking across various forums you can see people are giddy as hell and already ridiculing them. If Mercedes had been in this situation however, yeah it's not hard to imagine how different the response would of been.
 
allsaintchris. said:
They'll have it sorted by the first race so it runs properly as its all electronics related, the cooling may be the bigger problem that would take longer to solve
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There's been rumours of crankshaft problems with it as well, apparently Toro Rosso complained about vibration during the first day. They've got a list of issues as long as their arm and they haven't even been able to push it yet.
 
AbsolutelyGlorious said:
There's been rumours of crankshaft problems with it as well, apparently Toro Rosso complained about vibration during the first day. They've got a list of issues as long as their arm and they haven't even been able to push it yet.
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Surely not? How could they have not got that sorted on the dyno?
 
allsaintchris. said:
So, 3 days in and most cars are lapping around 6-7 sec slower than last year.

Is this around the pace of this years cars, or are they all sandbagging and just making sure they keep close to their rivals times without really showing what they've got?
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Teams have already said that this test is more about getting use to everything, and making sure it's reliable rather than performance.

They had said that the next test in Bahrain they will be doing more performance runs.
 
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I said that they would eventually get it sorted, but at the moment it's a full blown meltdown.
 
Forza Bianchi said:
You're right

Ian Parkes ‏@ianparkesf1 3m
Red Bull are done for the day as Christian Horner and Adrian Newey have just been driven out of the circuit
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So rather than stay with the engineers they've just got a sulk on and ****ed off, having stuck two fingers up to Renault before they left.

As Vettel would say "Nice boys, nice", but not in a good way
 
allsaintchris. said:
So rather than stay with the engineers they've just got a sulk on and ****ed off, having stuck two fingers up to Renault before they left.

As Vettel would say "Nice boys, nice", but not in a good way
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I guess humiliation is just not in their vocabulary. Until now, that is.
 
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