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Official: Testing Thread

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  1. Delete Me

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    All I've seen is am and pm and a brakes in between sessions.
     
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  2. genjigonzales

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    09:00 - 18:00 (08:00 - 17:00 BST) with an hour lunch break at 13:00 (12:00 BST), if memory serves.

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    A reminder of the running order:


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    [td]Turvey (AM)
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    [td]Turvey[/td]
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    [td]Lotus[/td]
    [td]d'Ambrosio[/td]
    [td]Raikkonen[/td]
    [td]Grosjean[/td]
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    [td]Alonso[/td]
    [td]Massa[/td]
    [td]Alonso[/td]
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    [td]Rosberg (AM)
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    [td]Kobayashi[/td]
    [td]Kobayashi[/td]
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    [td]Bottas[/td]
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    [td]Vergne[/td]
    [td]Vergne (AM)
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    [td]Marussia[/td]
    [td]Pic[/td]
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    [td]Caterham[/td]
    [td]Gonzalez[/td]
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    Weather update:

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  3. genjigonzales

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    1m38.363 for Bottas but I'm not sure whether the track is dry yet. I don't know what lap times we're expecting but I thought it'd be quicker than that. Rosberg did a 1m42.968. Alonso's just coming out.

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    Dry lap times would be almost 20 seconds faster.

    Red flag - Vergne in the gravel
     
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    Ferrari are back to the launch-spec exhausts. Also the acer ducts look a bit shorter (Jerez-spec here)

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    Red Bull and McLaren with 2 laps between them... keen!

    With less reason to hide pace this time round I wonder if we'll see a "realistic" leaderboard come Thursday.
     
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  7. genjigonzales

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    I don't know how advanced Red Bull's Mugello is but they apparently have Buemi driving the simulator live while Vettel and Webber are running practice sessions during race weekends, which enables them to try additional setups in the same conditions and then apply them to the race cars. Buemi has tweeted that he is at Milton Keynes for a couple of days and I think Marko said that Red Bull are taking twice many personnel to Mugello as they normally would, so they're clearly taking it very seriously.

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    Webber has done a decent little run now. Like McLaren, they could be trying some extreme solutions that take a while to set up on the car but only a few minutes to test out.

    Autosprint says Ferrari's Mugello exhaust may be "overheating the floor", according to @Crucial_Xtreme.
     
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    another picture of the front wing of the Ferrari, they say it's not new or anything.

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    Sauber's front wing is new, as are their sidepods:

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    There are reports and pictures of Mercedes testing out parts of the 2013 car for their new driver but they didn't say who it was.

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    ;)
     
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  12. genjigonzales

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    As well as being illegal, so they're clearly using it for comparison work.
     
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    Just as others appear to be copying Sauber.

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    Coanda, in effect:

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    Here's the older exhaust with the so-called coanda ramp (the McLaren solution uses airflow to induce the coanda effect):

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    New layout for Williams too.

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    Compared to the old one.

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    Not very good with the heat though...

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    Ferrari say they are going to have a longer break than others.
     
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    Jenson Button will be ripping through sun-drenched Hungarian streets soon. Watch the tedious Vodafone presentation on an amazing Hungarian website.

    I think Hungarians should design all websites now.
     
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    The rain has returned!

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