Pre-season testing, Jerez, 10th - 13th Feb

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10th February 2011, 09:09
Roamy

great stuff
10th February 2011, 09:21
Dave B

If you're wondering why Petrov seems so slow, he's not going for out-and-out times this morning:

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Course, he could just be slow! Get Bruno in the car... :p
10th February 2011, 09:31
Dave B

Piccy of the weird measuring device on the back of the McLaren:
10th February 2011, 10:02
Dave B

Another update, with the usual caveat about the times being utterly meaningless :p

1 Massa Ferrari 1m20.709s
2 Perez Sauber 1m21.483s +0.774
3 Ricciardo Toro Rosso 1m21.755s +1.046
4 Hamilton McLaren 1m22.283s +1.574
5 Webber Red Bull 1m23.194s +2.485
6 Petrov Renault 1m24.453s +3.744
7 Rosberg Mercedes 1m24.806s +4.097
8 Trulli Lotus 1m26.640s +5.931
10th February 2011, 10:14
SGWilko

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave B

Piccy of the weird measuring device on the back of the McLaren:

I believe (and am probably completely wrong) that this is to supply data that can be fed back to the simulator to better represent the characteristicas of the car. Probably be even more important to get accurate simulation of the use of the adjustable rear wing, and how this may or may not influence other aspect of airflow around the car and thus downforce......
10th February 2011, 10:18
Mark

Quote:

Originally Posted by SGWilko

I believe (and am probably completely wrong) that this is to supply data that can be fed back to the simulator to better represent the characteristicas of the car. Probably be even more important to get accurate simulation of the use of the adjustable rear wing, and how this may or may not influence other aspect of airflow around the car and thus downforce......

Certainly, and it won't just be the simulator (from the drivers point of view) but they do all sorts of modelling which tells them what will be the best setup etc, then of course the driver can use the simulator itself so by the time they arrive at first practice there's only some fine tuning to be done.
10th February 2011, 10:26
ioan

What McLaren is doing is checking if their CFD data is backed up by real track testing data.
10th February 2011, 10:35
ioan

Live timing here: http://www.f1-direct.fr/live-essais-prives.php
10th February 2011, 10:42
Dave B

Not sure how "live" it actually is ;)

Scratch that: I'm hearing that the internet has fallen over at the track, so maybe that's affecting the service :)
10th February 2011, 10:47
DexDexter

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Originally Posted by Dave B

If you've got Twitter, why not follow the list in my signature for live updates?

If you haven't, or can't get access to it where you are, you can try this. Copy the following into a Notepad document as save it as an .html file, then open it in your browser. I run it in a seperate windown in a thin strip down the side of my main browser.

Code:

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:D

Thanks a lot!

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