2013 Testing - Barcelona 2: 28 Feb - 3 Mar

[pocketmoon]

Lotus-Konkurrent Romain Grosjean fügte an: "Besonders im Regen sah der Mercedes beeindruckend aus.
http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/form ... 40835.html

The merc is especially impressive in the rain ?

[lewishamilton90]

button : "I really don't know who's quick," said Button. "But the one team that has been consistently quick has been Mercedes more than anyone else."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/21637548

[fritticaldi]

How about Circuit Paul Ricard? Awesome facility.

[ESPImperium]

Portamao will not host F1 testing or a race till they pay a €2.8m fee from 2009 from the stand alone GP2 race that was there, The interest alone is 10% every year it isnt paid. Bernie is using it as a weapon for the Park Algarve (New track name as of start of this year i am led to believe) in order to not bring a race there as its FIA license is a 1A Level.

As for Estoril, it is now a 2B license, as it needs 5 upgrades to get their 1A license back;
* Track needs to be at least 4.5km long, its presently 4.182km
* Track needs tra mack run off area at/in at least 5 different areas
* Pit buildings need updated as they are only GP3 spec
* Track infrastructure needs updating, they need better Broadband for media and more car parking spaces available, around 20,000 spaces is the figure that was quoted about 3 years ago.
* Grandstanding, they need to get about 50,000 seats available as well.

Estoril will need about €45m minimum to get this track its 1B license for testing (Bullet 1 would be omitted then) and €60m for a race. Also the track surface isnt bumpy, its just like Jerez now, it lacks bitchumen which would churn and grate the Pirellis.

Personally id like to see them use Motorland Aragon.

[ell66]

Grosjean,Hulkenberg and Button are positive about the car those are valuable opinions. I heard J.Herbert talking about Mercedes being hard on their tires, when i fact Mercedes (Ross and Rosberg) has come out and said tires aren't an issue anymore. J.Herbert should be replaced doesn't add anything, better add Eddie Jordan who occasionally brings scoops. Herbert is trying to be funny but he really isn't never brings news or talks rubbish.

Agree completely on Herbet, the worst pundit iv ever seen, stumbles his words, goes round in circles and just continually states the obvious, sky need to cut him, hill's not bad and iv always quite liked brundle.

As for the merc, looks impressive, will be interesting to see what they bring to the car this weekend.

[Hail22]

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Sauber does the Harlem Shake during their lunch break (also in the caption comp thread for permanent reflection)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhPcZQwS3QY[/youtube]

[foxmulder_ms]

Sauber............. they cracked me up lol

[stefan_]

Good one from Sauber. Would have been nice if when the bass dropped members from other teams would have appeared too doing random stuff around there.

Weather prediction for today:


Barcelona pre-season testing: Day 3 (02.03.2013) line-up

Red Bull Racing
Mark Webber

Scuderia Ferrari
Felipe Massa

McLaren
Sergio Pérez

Lotus F1 Team
Kimi Räikkönen

Mercedes AMG F1 Team
Lewis Hamilton

Sauber F1 Team
Esteban Gutiérrez

Force India F1 Team
Adrian Sutil

Williams F1 Team
Valtteri Bottas

Scuderia Toro Rosso
Jean-Éric Vergne

Caterham F1 Team
Giedo van der Garde

Marussia F1 Team
Jules Bianchi

Running time:
9am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm
(Local time, GMT +1)

[Blackout]

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Brighter conditions greet the teams the morning - we have a mostly dry track and sunshine.

[Donuts]

Magnificent. Now let's put some Melbourne specs on the cars!

[astracrazy]

Portamao will not host F1...

shame because Portimao is a fantastic track

[Forghieri]

Good one from Sauber. Would have been nice if when the bass dropped members from other teams would have appeared too doing random stuff around there.

Weather prediction for today:
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/7931/0203kw.png

Barcelona pre-season testing: Day 3 (02.03.2013) line-up

Red Bull Racing
Mark Webber

Scuderia Ferrari
Felipe Massa

McLaren
Sergio Pérez

Lotus F1 Team
Kimi Räikkönen

Mercedes AMG F1 Team
Lewis Hamilton

Sauber F1 Team
Esteban Gutiérrez

Force India F1 Team
Adrian Sutil

Williams F1 Team
Valtteri Bottas

Scuderia Toro Rosso
Jean-Éric Vergne

Caterham F1 Team
Giedo van der Garde

Marussia F1 Team
Jules Bianchi

Running time:
9am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm
(Local time, GMT +1)

According to Italian media, Kimi has food poisoning, Davide Valsecchi will drive today.

[korzeniow]

Shame for Kimi and Lotus

[stefan_]

Bad luck. Davide will start the day behind the wheel, but they called back Romain (who had left the track last night to spend a couple of days home) and if he gets back to the track in time he will drive in the second part of the day.

[Tim.Wright]

According to Italian media, Kimi has food poisoning, Davide Valsecchi will drive today.

Haha, I've often had food poisoning too on a saturday morning