2014 Testing - Jerez 28-31 Jan

[Helios]

Could it be that Renault is making their issues look bigger than they are so they can exploit the upcoming panic in order to be allowed to include some performance-enhancing parts which would ultimately give them an advantage over the other engine-manufacturers? Just a thought, knowing with what kind of tricks the Renault/RB partnership has got away with already.

[WhiteBlue]

F1t said:

“We have clearly identified a problem that we could not fix this morning, but we are working to ensure that the teams, especially Red Bull and Toro Rosso are able to take to the track at 9am. It's a sequential problem resulting from the integration of all systems".

Taffin further said the problem is to do with hardware only, and while spare parts are available at the track, they do not have enough of them to get all teams running again. Therefore, parts from Viry will be flown over to the circuit to resolve the issue for all three customer teams available at the Jerez test.

The issue is to do with the control system of the batteries, and different packaging within the different cars makes fixing it all the more difficult. He said "sometimes it's easy, but due to the design of cars, sometimes we first have to remove a lot of parts before being able to access the batteries".

It is not surprising that the Renault customer cars suffer from an integration problem. Merc and Ferrari designed the whole package with one set of engineers and their customers took their clues for the main design decisions from them. Renault customer have three different solutions to battery packaging and it makes it so much harder to solve the problems. People were right about the advantage of an integrated manufacturer package at least for speedy prototype testing. It may not make a difference later in the season but the manufacturer jobs are obviously less of a mess to sort out.

[Hail22]

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

[gray41]

No Notebook from Ted?

[SectorOne]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQbdEJsjHQ

These cars are just so cool

[Hail22]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQbdEJsjHQ

These cars are just so cool

They have impressed thus far, and I don't believe they're pushing their cars just yet. Still looks to be all reliability / aero flow testing. Fingers crossed!

[Forza]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9owKBY_mJ8&[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtenemHPJM[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9_j5bkCRU4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2rYL5gRewo[/youtube]

[stefan_]

Felipe in Williams overalls.

[Forza]

https://twitter.com/tgruener/status/428797982973370368 https://twitter.com/WilliamsF1Team/stat ... 0531549184 https://twitter.com/ToroRossoSpy/status ... 2279445505 https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/statu ... 1949436928 https://twitter.com/ToroRossoSpy/status ... 1663069186

[Vanja #66]

Vergne sets the first time of the morning - a 1.52.3 - but his Renault power unit is not sounding hugely healthy

http://www.f1zone.net/news/jerez-testin ... ive/23828/

Renault still having troubles?

[Forza]

https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/428805988100362240

[Gaara]

What is this green thing? sometimes it's red too. How does it work? related to the ERS?

[astracrazy]

yes its to let the marshalls etc know the car is safe

Hamilton starting the day with a 12 lap stint. Already extended Red Bulls total? I know they only done 8 yesterday

[charlex]

What is this green thing? sometimes it's red too. How does it work? related to the ERS?

green it s ok, red dont touch

[xDama]

I've been wondering, what if a car crashes quite violently (Kubica - Montreal 2007 for example) and the T-cam gets destroyed, or the car's upside down in gras/gravel? Are marshalls going to be able to see if it's safe to extract/help the driver?

Seems like quite a strange place to put that kind of a signal light...