What's more important? Running the new car or waste time making sure you had spares. If I was running a new team I'd go with the former.Quote:
Originally Posted by woody2goody
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What's more important? Running the new car or waste time making sure you had spares. If I was running a new team I'd go with the former.Quote:
Originally Posted by woody2goody
De La Rosa has a very good time today bearing in mind he only did 8 laps. That Sauber looks competitive this year (although I remember saying the same about 12 months ago when Heidfeld topped testing 3 times in a row!)
Thanks for the video Henners!
The Lotus looks great and I really love the color combos.
I was laughing at that engineer spying on the Lotus. Reminded me of a little kid trying to look up a woman's skirt, like, "What's going on up in here?"
Day 2 times
1. Rubens Barrichello - Williams ................ 1m 27.145 - 98 laps
2. Vitaly Petrov - Renault ................ + 0.683 - 56 laps
3. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull ................ + 1.017 - 70 laps
4. Nico Rosberg - Mercedes ................ + 1.370 - 71 laps
5. Felipe Massa - Ferrari ................ + 1.734 - 92 laps
6. Pedro de la Rosa - Sauber ................ + 2.546 - 8 laps
7. Paul Di Resta - Force India ................ + 3.199 - 33 laps
8. Timo Glock - Virgin ................ + 3.331 - 72 laps
9. Vitantonio Liuzzi - Force India ................ + 3.521 - 24 laps
10. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren ................ + 4.488 - 57 laps
11. Sebastien Buemi - Toro Rosso ................ + 5.533 - 57 laps
12. Heikki Kovalainen - Lotus ................ + 6.409 - 30 laps
Pretty respectable lap times for the Virgin, nicely sandwiched between di Resta and Liuzzi.
Cheeky indeedQuote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Loved how they pushed the car past some of the rival teams as if "look at us, we're here, and we mean business"
Itīs a very big task to start a new F1 entry. I admire Lotus and Virgin.
When the season ends, none of them will be last.
I know, seems like they got yesterdays problems sorted out and got themselves a good run, albeit in the wet.Quote:
Originally Posted by VkmSpouge
Hopefully the weather will improve over the next 2 days, im intrigued to see some dry time comparisons between the 11 teams
What a great set of times today! The "wrong" names at the top!!!
Nice outing by Virgin.
What this of course does do is just illustrate that we have yet to see what the F1 pecking order in terms of outright speed is.
Although I am sure the teams have a good idea and I venture that Mclaren on long heavy runs is the best so far.
This morning (Friday) there was talk of roads into the circuit being flooded, but now everybody seems confident that there'll be some meaningful dry running.
Uneventful so far, apart from Kovy stopping out on track and causing a red flag. From Autosport:
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08:47 There's no confirmation of what caused the Lotus to stop, but there are rumours that someone saw smoke coming from it