Official Pre-season testing thread

I doubt they'll rush it out on the first day of a test, the mechanics aren't properly familiar with the car yet, they'll want to take their time. They'll also want to find out why that failed, could just be a faulty part but if the design is inherently flawed they won't want to send it out again with that spec of front wing.

 

We shall see, we shall see.

 

how many spares will they have for day 1?

 

Ferrari still scared to set a lap time.

 

Who knows but Mercedes will be having a live feed for the people back in the UK/Germany to replace it ASAP.

 

Red Bull still scared to leave the garage

 

I thought testing ending around about 5pm?

 

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Well I think we can say with confidence the STR9 is going to be the class of the field

 

New front wing for the Merc, new pants for Lewis.

 

That's if they can qualify close enough to Mercedes' 107%, could just imagine Mercedes being the only cars on race day, and then fail at the end giving zero points to everybody

 

That would be..

interesting.

 

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Some rumour going about that Mercedes is blowing the diffuser with the 'T' shaped slot within the diffuser itself.

 

Kimi with a 1m33s

 

Ferrari

 

Ferrari within 107%. As it stands Mercedes will lock out the front row, Ferrari the second row and everyone else fails to qualify. In the race both Mercedes' front wings will fail as they're lapping the Ferraris for the third time, wiping all four cars out of the race.

 

AMuS: "Reason for Ferrari stopping earlier: false telemetry data"

 

Caterham & marrusia will make it on track 1hour after the green lights. They will be 1 lap short of unlapping themselves before the 2hour timeout.

We can learn a lot from testing

 

So the ERS system is making the car malfunction you say

 

Vettel going for the record of the most DNQ's in a season this year then? Another record to add to the collection.