F1 2010: Testing sessions thread

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Originally Posted by F1boat

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

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Kobayashi seemed to make one quick lap at the end of the session, before this he wasn't that visible. In some ways STR's good performance could be logical since their car is pretty much an evolution from RB5 (well, sounds similar to the sentence that used to describe RB6 :D ), so the main questionmark has been the level of quality work at Faenza factory. Last year STR was struggling notably despite having essentially the same chassis as RBR, but maybe by now they have managed to install the Ferrari engine properly? It's like STR finally becoming fast in 2008 after earlier struggles.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81409

Tis only testing, but....

"Alonso was particularly eye-catching, with Alonso lapping in 1m21.928s towards the end, while Schumacher's later times were around 1m23s"

And that was on a longer run by Fernando too.

forget 6/10ths, it's now 1.2seconds plus!

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Originally Posted by truefan72

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

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Then again it's better for Virgin to undergo those embarrassing incidents in testing rather than at GP weekends! I don't dare to think, what might Campos and USF1 be up to in Bahrain without any testing if they somehow miraculously make it to the grid.

Very impressed with little Nico. Fast and error free - bodes well.

Maru was 5th or so for most of the day so I think we can over look the banzi last lap.

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Originally Posted by tamburello

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81409

Tis only testing, but....

"Alonso was particularly eye-catching, with Alonso lapping in 1m21.928s towards the end, while Schumacher's later times were around 1m23s"

And that was on a longer run by Fernando too.

forget 6/10ths, it's now 1.2seconds plus!

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1.2 secs over some flabby old dude with a dodgy neck ;)

i think we're writing of Virgin waaaay too soon - they only did, what, 11 laps, and the first 6 or 7 of them were just installation laps, Red Bull were something like 6+ seconds off on the first few laps, i very much doubt that Virgin have completed a flat out lap yet and will have been building up slowly.

don't get me wrong, i don't expect to see them at the top of the timesheets any time soon, but they are not 10 seconds off the pace either

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Originally Posted by Robinho

i think we're writing of Virgin waaaay too soon - they only did, what, 11 laps, and the first 6 or 7 of them were just installation laps, Red Bull were something like 6+ seconds off on the first few laps, i very much doubt that Virgin have completed a flat out lap yet and will have been building up slowly.

don't get me wrong, i don't expect to see them at the top of the timesheets any time soon, but they are not 10 seconds off the pace either

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Agreed. You'd be less than 10 secs off the pace in a GP2 car with an F1 engine bolted in the back so Virgin will certainly improve.

Testing is all about learning what does and doesn't work - clearly front wing mounts requiree some improvement! :D

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81415

Well, uh, I think I got that mixed up somehow.

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Originally Posted by truefan72

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

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Compared to other new teams at least they completed a car, attempted to turn up and run with their fellow competitors and still have some time to understand the car with a couple more weeks of testing (dry hopefully)

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Originally Posted by wedge

Compared to other new teams at least they completed a car, attempted to turn up and run with their fellow competitors and still have some time to understand the car with a couple more weeks of testing (dry hopefully)

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don't get me wrong I am not writing them off at all .In fact quite the opposite. ! am glad they made it to testing and that the car seems well put together. I am just disappointed that in the first 2 days we have seen virtually nothing from them and that they seemed a little unprepared to handle the issue of replacing a broken nose.

But also before that incident, you would have thought they would have wanted to run more laps just to break the car in better. We will see what the next 2 days hold and hopefully they will run a good number of laps.