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Official Pre-season testing thread

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  1. Smithers

    Smithers Well-Known Member
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    The logical thing would be to allow continued development for a set period, I would now suggest the summer break. It would be fair allow the power units to be developed and bettered further.
     
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  2. Smithers

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    Why - have you asked him out?
     
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  3. El_Bando

    El_Bando Can't remember, where was I?
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    Im bunny boiling...
     
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  5. BrightLampShade

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    Lunch is over, back to work!
    Air temperature: 27℃and Track temperature: 43℃


     
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  6. BrightLampShade

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    Why oh why do Red Bull insist on these bodge jobs every day!
    All they need to do is have bigger outlets and get more laps in, they're running out of time, time they can never get back.


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  7. 51LV3R8RR04

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    Still no race sim from Ferrari eh?
     
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    Rosberg showing James Bond how to really Spy...

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  9. BrightLampShade

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    I'm glad Hulk didn't go to Lotus now, Force India has turned out to be the best move he has made in his whole career.
     
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    Red Bull mocking Benson's BS

    http://www.infiniti-redbullracing.com/article/update-spy-0

    'We do, however, get the opportunity to make our own entertainment, one avenue to which is reading some of the more lurid speculation that's flying around. Our favourite today is the one about Seb apparently having a massive hissy fit in Jerez, refusing to drive the car because it wasn't very good, and storming off in a huff.~

    A major news broadcaster posted the story this morning, along with the line "No-one outside the team knows whether it happened or not, and those on the inside wouldn't say.

    Eh? Run that by me again?

    I suppose it could be true. Maybe four World Championships really have turned him into a screaming primadonna. Perhaps what really happened is Seb leapt out of the car and started foaming at the mouth. He made a very rude gesture in the direction of Adrian, snarled at Rocky, kicked Ole in the spanners and then stormed out of the garage, saddled his unicorn and rode back to Switzerland.

    Meanwhile Adrian's lost his copy of the Illustrated Junior Encyclopaedia of Motorsport and says he can't design without it. Daniel's sulking is really starting to get everyone down, Dr Marko has decided to return to his roots and become a dubstep producer under his street name DJ Graz and, after his New York residency last summer, Christian's far more interested in street art than F1 anyway.

    Seb, meanwhile has sent us a postcard, and says he's really sorry for all the fuss. He'll be back soon but has decided to chill for a while by spending a couple of weeks watching daytime soaps and eating crisps 'round at Mark's house.

    Maybe that's what happening. It's certainly a rumour. No one outside the team knows for sure and those inside won't say...
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  12. BrightLampShade

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  13. El_Bando

    El_Bando Can't remember, where was I?
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  14. BrightLampShade

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    11:39 Lotus suggests that Maldonado's last run met a fiery end.

    @Lotus_F1Team: "A bit of a flame display on track means we've brought the E22 back to investigate what went wrong."



    I'm going to go out on a limb and say engine?
     
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    Matt Somerfield ‏@SomersF1 2m
    .@MercedesAMGF1 using the floor I mentioned last night https://twitter.com/SomersF1/status/439100192361418752 … Twin vertical floor strake config #WO5 pic.twitter.com/QhiEhhNGVT

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    Matt Somerfield ‏@SomersF1 1m
    Eye spy with my little eye, what appears to be another camera mounted in the @MercedesAMGF1 WO5's Sidepod #TechF1 pic.twitter.com/kCBXgWUftD

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    MOST RECENT UPDATE: 11:47:18
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  17. El_Bando

    El_Bando Can't remember, where was I?
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    Here comes a negative review of Red Bulls testing on the beeb.

    Its War.....

    ....Bust first he needs to reply to my text.
     
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  18. BrightLampShade

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  19. eddie_squidd

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    Button driving for Red Bull according to Autosport. Maybe they saw he was languishing at the bottom of the laps completed table and just assumed?

    "12:21 A little over two hours to run in Bahrain. Here's the lap count so far:

    Hamilton (Mercedes) 80
    Alonso (Ferrari) 75
    Massa (Williams) 71
    Gutierrez (Sauber) 59
    Perez (Force India) 54
    Bianchi (Marussia) 52
    Vergne (Toro Rosso) 43
    Ericsson (Caterham) 35
    Maldonado (Lotus) 31
    Ricciardo (Red Bull) 29
    Button (Red Bull) 20"
     
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  20. 51LV3R8RR04

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    Somebody at Autosport not doing their job properly it seems...

    Hamilton (Mercedes) 80
    Alonso (Ferrari) 75
    Massa (Williams) 71
    Gutierrez (Sauber) 59
    Perez (Force India) 54
    Bianchi (Marussia) 52
    Vergne (Toro Rosso) 43
    Ericsson (Caterham) 35
    Maldonado (Lotus) 31
    Ricciardo (Red Bull) 29
    Button (Red Bull) 20
     
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