F1 testing in Spain

[pino]

I´m a bit worried about ferrari at the moment and to a lesser state MacLaren, but it´s early days yet.

Are you a Ferrari, McLaren or Kimi fan ? :

[airshifter]

Are you a Ferrari, McLaren or Kimi fan ? :

Not sure about Mia, but I consider myself a fan of all three.



Some more testing times:

1. Michael Schumacher, Mercedes GP, 1 minute, 18.561 seconds, 132 laps

2. Mark Webber, Red Bull Racing-Renault, 1:19.184, +0.623, 97

3. Daniel Ricciardo, Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari, 1:19.587, +1.026, 100

4. Jules Bianchi, Force India-Mercedes, 1:20.221, +1.660, 46

5. Kimi Räikkönen, Lotus-Renault, 1:20.239, +1.678, 117

6. Paul Di Resta, Force India-Mercedes, 1:20.272, +1.711, 69

7. Felipe Massa, Ferrari, 1:20.454, +1.893, 95

8. Jenson Button, McLaren-Mercedes, 1:20.688, +2.127, 85

9. Sergio Pérez, Sauber-Ferrari, 1:20.711, +2.150, 68

10. Pastor Maldonado, Williams-Renault, 1:21.197, +2.636, 97

11. Heikki Kovalainen, Caterham-Renault, 1:21.518, +2.957, 139

12. Pedro de la Rosa, HRT-Cosworth, 1:22.128, +3.567, 64

Schumacher was in last years car, so Webber was the fastest of the new cars. Kimi had a slight off and some damage but still did 117 laps. Check the source for other info and who was driving current cars.

Formula One: Michael Schumacher fastest on day two of Jerez test - Autoweek

[Koz]

... Shoe is fastest... But according to something I read it appears be is driving the 2011 car?
Can someone please confirm this?
(I'm on a phone, with no 3G)

[driveace]

Think that the Ferrari,s and the McLarens are sandbagging a little,but they need to keep an eye on the Bulls,and hope we dont have a runaway faster car,OR the racing could be boring again this year

[steveaki13]

... Shoe is fastest... But according to something I read it appears be is driving the 2011 car?
Can someone please confirm this?
(I'm on a phone, with no 3G)

Mercedes are running their 2011 car with updates I assume, as are HRT as they are struggling to get their new car ready.


Day Three is now under way, giving Lewis, Fernando and Sebastian a first drive in their new challengers.

[steveaki13]

First install laps going on and its only 0.3 C air temp, and 1.1 C track temp. A bit chilly

[F1boat]

Ferrari seem to be in trouble. Oh, crap.

[SGWilko]

Don't write them off yet. They have a lot of data to gather given the pull-rod front suspension and the fact they have been a lot less conservative with their design this year.

Also, the more data you can acquire on all the different variables for setup, the more accurate you can be throughout the season in bringing updates to the car. SO rather than banging out fast laps, they are no doubt concentrating on controlled speed/downforce tests etc.

You can imagine the McLaren will have more sensors on it than a mother giving birth using only a TENS machine for pain relief!!!

[Jefe Máximo]

Schumacher's driving the 2011 car, so the lap times are a bit deceiving.

The Ferrari engine seems to be doing ok in the Torro Rosso.

[Garry Walker]

Ferrari in trouble according AMuS. I wouldn't mind.

In other news, read what this usFAILURE1 team boss and utter retard Peter "dumb dumb" Windsor is saying about the tests so far.

Notes from Jerez testing « peterwindsor.com

Relative to the Michael of 2010/11, however, this was an altogether different driver. He braked to a point on the left of the road, still with the car at perhaps 15 deg from “straight and parallel”, then nudged the Mercedes into the right-hander, downshifting against increasing steering load.

Mark Webber also looked sharp and very quick, although out of the last corner, and towards Turn One, he began his diagonal perhaps 50 metres earlier than Michael (as is Mark’s regular style). Perhaps 200rpm go missing here. Slightly too-early throttle application against abrupt steering load also gave him quite a lot of mid-corner understeer in the middle of One, but, into Two, a downhill, right-hand hairpin, Mark was faultless.

Kimi looked great in all the slow corners, even if he twice missed his braking point into the chicane just before day’s end. All the old Kimi was on show – the great use of a decreasing brake pedal pressure against steering load, the exquisite feel for the right moment to load-up the car with steering. He was almost in Michael’s wheeltracks on the stretch from the last corner into Turn One – almost but not quite. Kimi’s E20 was straight as it crossed the timing line but he began his diagonal to the outside perhaps 20m earlier than Michael. Maybe 50rpm lost here. Out at Turn Five – the daunting, fourth-gear corner – Kimi was a tad disappointing, frequently leading the car in from a point about a metre later than Michael or Mark and thus effectively running out of road mid-corner. I’m sure he was saying afterwards that the car suffers here from understeer but to my eye his initial manipulations were not helping the problem.

LOL!!!!

I just love how he describes the driving style of drivers, yet he himself obviously has no understanding of racing whatsoever.