F1 2010: Testing sessions thread

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Originally Posted by henners88

Another weird testing device by Mclaren.

http://twitpic.com/12kra1

http://twitpic.com/12krck

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Christmas lights, in February.....?

Alonso now on his 100th lap of the day - certainly no reliability worries for Ferrari at this stage!

But 6/10ths slower... :erm:

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Originally Posted by RJL25

Newey said a car designed 100% on CFD won't work and you can only create a concept on CFD but the actual design has to be developed in the wind tunnel... looks like he might be right

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That's his opinion.

Force India did the opposite of Newey. They relied on CFD to develop last year's car. They said it was good at analysing flow rates at a macro level.

No one yet really knows the precise reason for the "mounting failure" whether it be a clumsy mechanic, structual failure or the wrong numbers from the design room.

First failure for McLaren - apparently Button's stopped at "Curva Dry Sack" (love that name :) )

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Hasn't he already been proved wrong, in the case of the ALMS Acura at least.

In any case, it's very early days for the VR-01 and this is what testing is for.

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But the problem was that the Acuras were racing themselves in ALMS. Yes Wirth and developed it all year but not under duress of competition had the Audis and Porsches continued racing last year.

And the winner is... Kobayashi.

According to unofficial timing he snuck his Sauber into top spot just as today's session ended.

1 Kobayashi Sauber 1m19.950s
2 Buemi Toro Rosso 1m20.026s +0.076
3 Button McLaren 1m20.618s +0.668
4 Hulkenberg Williams 1m20.629s +0.679
5 Liuzzi Force India 1m20.754s +0.804
6 Schumacher Mercedes 1m21.083s +1.133
7 Alonso Ferrari 1m21.424s +1.474
8 Kubica Renault 1m22.003s +2.053
9 Webber Red Bull 1m22.043s +2.093
10 Glock Virgin 1m29.964s +10.014

Huh, what a strange period of testing we have had at Jerez so far, made more difficult to read due to weather. As far as I can see, no team has "done a Brawn" so far and dominated the field, so it's still open. What surprises me is the pace of STR - Buemi seemed to be making competitive times both on shorter and longer runs.

What seems obvious is that Virgin is clearly behind all and is obviously suffering a difficult start. Hopefully it isn't a fundamental flaw that the car is unable to deal with the forces on a bumpy track like Jerez? Hopefully Lotus will do better.

For me Sauber are the biggest surprise. I wonder however if STR is that fast, whether RBR will copy its ideas lol.

a bit disappointing that Virgin was not better prepared for this test. You cannot loose a front wing and then call it a day because you don't have spares. Shouldn't happen in today's F1. And before that, they were not really running laps anyway. So I'm not sure why they even showed up at Jerez. Seems they were not ready yet