Official Pre-season testing thread

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SO Red Bull half cured one overheating problem, only to shift it to another part of the car.

Autosport suggesting Vettel's spin was caused by rear brakes overheating!

So much work needed on that car just to make it last more than a few laps it's hard to see it being competitive even when they sort out the various cooling issues as it will end up ruining the aero.
 
EternalMSC said:
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Scenes in RB garage.
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for the context, look how wet his hair is, and the water dripping, is it a person tearing their hair out in some sort of hissy fit? or someone just brushing water through their hair to keep cool in desert conditions and pulling the sort of face you'd expect for someone doing that? I guess it depends on the slant the captioneer decides to give it.
 
Miggins said:
for the context, look how wet his hair is, and the water dripping, is it a person tearing their hair out in some sort of hissy fit? or someone just brushing water through their hair to keep cool in desert conditions and pulling the sort of face you'd expect for someone doing that? I guess it depends on the slant the captioneer decides to give it.
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It's a pretty exasperated look he has on his face, even for someone brushing water through their hair............ Silver's input on this would be quite good.

RBR definitely feeling the pressure at the moment as they just cannot get the car to run properly, let alone find out whether it's quick.
 
Miggins said:
for the context, look how wet his hair is, and the water dripping, is it a person tearing their hair out in some sort of hissy fit? or someone just brushing water through their hair to keep cool in desert conditions and pulling the sort of face you'd expect for someone doing that? I guess it depends on the slant the captioneer decides to give it.
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Haha, remember when he said, "remember these moments, they won't last forever"? I think this is what Seb meant.
 
Red Bulls car has some raw pace but having the foundation to apply that pace to isn't there just yet. You have seen Mercedes, Ferrari and McClaren- all working on getting a solid benchmark for them to them to develop. It will be a very long season though and lots of development going on, almost week to week- fascinating. Very much a long race!
 
Miggins:6112212 said:
EternalMSC said:
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Scenes in RB garage.
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for the context, look how wet his hair is, and the water dripping, is it a person tearing their hair out in some sort of hissy fit? or someone just brushing water through their hair to keep cool in desert conditions and pulling the sort of face you'd expect for someone doing that? I guess it depends on the slant the captioneer decides to give it.
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He'd be quite entitled to look frustrated. He's a racing driver and wants to get out there and put some miles on the new car. I'd be more concerned if he didn't give a crap.
 
Any real clues to the pecking order at the moment folks or do we just know who is more reliable than others so far?
 
BrightLampShade:6112730 said:
Isn't that a old photo of him winning his first wdc or something? ;)
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Something like that... Not entirely sure where it was. Either way, he's got every right to be as frustrated as hell. I would be.
 
TopClass:6112725 said:
Any real clues to the pecking order at the moment folks or do we just know who is more reliable than others so far?
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Hard to say... Will reliability issues surface more when they really start turning the wick up on these cars? And since we've really not seen them really get the hammer down... It's hard to say.

The McLaren looks a bit tasty though.
 
Lol, Rosberg stopped on track five minutes into the session. Alonso is the fastest so far - 1:37.700. However he just did two purple sectors before pitting, so obviously there's a lot more speed in the Ferrari.



Alonso - 1m37.700s (15 laps)
Hulkenberg - 1m38.394s (11 laps)
Bottas - 1m38.615s (15 laps)
Magnussen - 1m39.958s (8 laps)
Vergne - 1m40.609s (35 laps)
Rosberg - 1m40.932s (18 laps)
Gutierrez - 1m41.660s (20 laps)
Vettel - 1m41.850s (4 laps)
Chilton - 1m42.511s (12 laps)
Kobayashi (2 laps)
Grosjean (1 lap)
 
Earlier today

07:28 As Vettel pits after a slow first sector and a personal best second sector, here's a picture clearly showing what Red Bull's primary concern was when he returned from an earlier run, with two fire extinguishers on call at the rear of the car.
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Hulkenburg all but admitted to AMuS yesterday that Mercedes were faster than Force India.

The tires play a big role in the lap times. Hulkenberg told us yesterday that the soft tire is at least one second faster than the medium and the medium brings another second against fierce mixture. Hülkenberg's best time of 1.36,889 minutes was run on soft tires. Alonso was traveling in his time of 1.37,879 minutes with medium rubbers. And Hamilton was the time of 1.37,908 minutes on the hard soles. "Lewis drove a good time. Since we have to put ourselves warm," judged Hulkenberg.
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Vettel just did a 5 lap stint. And then....


08:27 Vettel is back in the pits, but that run was at least long enough to get Red Bull into double figures for the day. It sums up the team's pre-season so far that something so small can be considered a mini-triumph.

08:28 The Red Bull garage has an interested onlooker in our very own EDD STRAW:

"The car disappears behind screens into the garage and is descended on by the team.

"Nothing looks particularly wrong but is there a slight burning smell in the air? Certainly plenty of external cooling fans in use!"
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Alonso to do a race simulation?

08:38 From the pitlane EDD STRAW has more detail on Alonso's 'slow' laps at the moment, and hints that it could be the makings of a serious part of any team's pre-season test programme:

"Alonso drives through the pits. Proper practice start with tyre warm-up wheel spins - the full procedure.

"Watch out for a long run from this. The team are not expecting him back, so this can't be far from a race sim from them."
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Alonso - 1m37.700s (25 laps)
Hulkenberg - 1m38.394s (17 laps)
Bottas - 1m38.615s (33 laps)
Magnussen - 1m39.958s (8 laps)
Vergne - 1m40.609s (44 laps)
Rosberg - 1m40.932s (21 laps)
Vettel - 1m41.370s (12 laps)
Gutierrez - 1m41.660s (25 laps)
Grosjean 1m41.670s (13 lap)
Chilton - 1m42.511s (14 laps)
Kobayashi 1m45.059s (8 laps)
 
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Smooth programme so far but the wind has increased a lot: not ideal conditions!


Alonso returns to the pits and does more burnouts
 
Forza Bianchi said:
Lol, Rosberg stopped on track five minutes into the session. Alonso is the fastest so far - 1:37.700. However he just did two purple sectors before pitting, so obviously there's a lot more speed in the Ferrari.



Alonso - 1m37.700s (15 laps)
Hulkenberg - 1m38.394s (11 laps)
Bottas - 1m38.615s (15 laps)
Magnussen - 1m39.958s (8 laps)
Vergne - 1m40.609s (35 laps)
Rosberg - 1m40.932s (18 laps)
Gutierrez - 1m41.660s (20 laps)
Vettel - 1m41.850s (4 laps)
Chilton - 1m42.511s (12 laps)
Kobayashi (2 laps)
Grosjean (1 lap)
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Clearly Rosberg was told to empty the car out, look how quick they went back out again. Never saw that from Ferrari with their power units when it always took them 3-4hrs to go back out.

Nothing to see apart from Ferrari's race sim without the chimney. *rubs hands*
 
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