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The Formula One teams completed the second of 3 pre-season tests at Barcelona, with Friday the last of 4 day running on Circuit de Catalunya. Pirelli enjoyed seeing all compounds in action over the four days, but teams noticed high degradation on all tyres.
Oh really? I must have missread, then we have near 0 data on McLaren too, because I don't believe they're over a second behind Merc.GrizzleBoy wrote:Perez's time was actually on the softer tyre as was reported by autosport, unless you're talking about yesterday?
What exhaust system used Lewis. I saw many pictures with the old version, but didn't see a picture from today with the new one. If this times are without the coanda... can we guess that there is more pace to find?beelsebob wrote:Well, I did say at least, so there's no assumption in there that Merc have shown their hand, they might be able to go faster than a 1:21.0.JimClarkFan wrote:I'm kind of shocked by that improvement in performance, that is a massive step forward for merc. I wonder how much the RB Mc and Fer have improved. We are of course assuming that Merc has shown their hand between the other 3 big guys have not, which I am not sure is the case.beelsebob wrote:Based on hamilton's current run, 2.2kg of fuel use per lap, and 0.4 seconds per 10kg of fuel, we now know that Merc can do at least a 1:22.0.
Edit: He was on hards too, so they could do at least a 1:21.0 in qually. 1.2 seconds better than last year's pole time isn't bad.
RB, the best knowledge we have is that vettel could do a 1:22.3 on hards, so we know they can do at least a 1:21.3.
McLaren Checo did a 1:22.7 on hards, with 4 extra laps of fuel at least on board, so again, that's a 1:21.3 at least.
Ferrari we don't really have any data on.
I would suggest that all of these estimates are at least half a second off the absolute maximum performance any of these teams can do, as none of them will have turned the engine up to max in testing, I'd also suggest that McLaren and RedBull probably have some more left in them at least.
it's still better then last year when they missed whole first barcelona tests, dont be so upset. it's better to solve problems on test then when is GP.Kansas wrote:its ridiculous that Lotus had barely done any long run since jerez................
Kimi had lost his precious 2 days of testing, they barely had any run to understand the different tyre compound.
Broken exhaust.Mr.G wrote:Any info why Ferrari are so long in garage?
The session is currently closed for lunch....StrikeForceF1 wrote:Fernando has been in the pits for a long time now, I'm reading that they have a broken exhaust. Isn't that something easy to replace?
Great, so they will miss part of the afternoon session as well? Oh dear.Lotus_F1Team Gearbox still being worked on, you just can't get the parts for these foreign cars
