Official Pre-season testing thread

[Forza Bianchi]

AMuS:

14:18 Meanwhile, we have also found out what the problem was at Mercedes: The water pressure in the engine is dropped suddenly. When it goes on, we can not say unfortunately.

 

[BrightLampShade]

Fixed

 

[51LV3R8RR04]

Boom!

 

[Forza Bianchi]

Alonso on a long run, in the 1:42's and 43's

 

[Forza Bianchi]

Trackside observations

11:42 Some more observations from GLENN FREEMAN down at Turns 1 and 2. He reckons the cars look difficult to drive and sound pretty good too.

"Pretty much all of the cars I've seen on track look a real handful through here. They're moving around a lot and you can see the drivers really having to work.

"Just had a Mercedes and a Ferrari going around together. As soon as you get even two cars running together the noise level ramps up to an impressive level.

"Would be harsh to judge the sound of F1 2014 purely on cars running solo."



11:47 GLENN FREEMAN reports that Alonso has gone off at the end of the back straight:

"Just went in too deep and ran wide; tried to hold it but the car wobbled on him."

 

[Eat Sleep Watch F1 Repeat]

11:45 Rosberg is consistently lapping in the low 1m40s to high 1m39s at the moment. Alonso is in the 43s. Bottas is just winding up.

 

[Forza Bianchi]

Hulk - 1m37.215s

 

[BrightLampShade]

Obligatory Mercedes power 1,2,3 now

 

[Eat Sleep Watch F1 Repeat]

Hulkenberg was on soft tyres

 

[Eat Sleep Watch F1 Repeat]

Tobias Grüner F1 ‏@tgruener 2m
@MercAMGF1Fans Hulkenberg was on soft, Rosberg on medium. Hulkenberg 5-lap-run, Rosberg 12 lap-run. So fastest lap no surprise.

 

[BrightLampShade]

Marussia in the wars this test sadly

 

[BrightLampShade]

Sauber stopped. Braking issue?

 

[Forza Bianchi]

Now Hulk has done a 1:36.445

EDIT: On soft tyres and pitted immediately after.

 

[51LV3R8RR04]

Amazing, Seb with 43 laps done, FEAR THEM!

 

[51LV3R8RR04]

Mercedes turning up the dial for fun now.

 

[BrightLampShade]

McLaren pleasing the sponsors

 

[Forza Bianchi]

Magnussen - 1m35.489s on soft tyres.

 

[Julius Caesar]

McLaren pleasing the sponsors

Glory run or not, they're under 2 seconds off the times that they did in qualifying last year. Given reports of how slow this years cars are meant to be, that has to be a genuinely quick time.

 

[BrightLampShade]

Glory run or not, they're under 2 seconds off the times that they did in qualifying last year. Given reports of how slow this years cars are meant to be, that has to be a genuinely quick time.

Much harder to run fake times this year as well as there's not excess ballast to take out

 

[51LV3R8RR04]

And how far away is the best Ferrari powered unit to the fastest Mercedes so far? ye 2.2 seconds!!!