2014 Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne

[Forza]

R01 - Onboard videos from Friday Free Practice

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2KDcyJmxIc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doiAnjUvqbo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWCKjwnHXx0[/youtube]

2014 Australian Grand Prix FP1 Jenson Button Onboard - dailymotion

[Vasconia]

You're welcome. As I said, it's meant to give an indication about gearing, not sound.

The sound is what you will hear on TV...
Yes, it's that disappointing.

When the cars enter into a corner the sound is........just embarrasing, this must be a joke.

[the EDGE]

R01 - Onboard videos from Friday Free Practice


2014 Australian Grand Prix FP1 Jenson Button Onboard - dailymotion

Very interesting watching the rev counter on Bottas' on-board, its the first time I have seen it with the new PU's, its no wonder the engines do not sound very good... he spends most of the time around 7-8,000 rpm, occasionally touching 10-11,000

[Mandrake]

How come there is almost no whistling / whining / hissing in the RedBull Onboard? It sounds as if they were running the ICE only.....

[Jef Patat]

What is the situation with Renault? Particularly for Redbull. If the power unit is unable to operate at peak efficiency and Redbull are producing this kind of pace; I am concerned.

They can run at full power by now, see the renault engine thread:
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... &start=465

[Gerhardsa]

Sounds a lot like GT4,3 and 2 cars imho, especially from the Bottas video

[iotar__]

What is the situation with Renault? Particularly for Redbull. If the power unit is unable to operate at peak efficiency and Redbull are producing this kind of pace; I am concerned.

They can run at full power by now, see the renault engine thread:
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... &start=465

There's some general info from Renault bloke from press conference, nothing worth quoting:
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/ ... 15559.html

These press conferences are as useless as they get. Fake boss can't comment on real boss's policies, stupid question and no answers or poor meandering to good questions. "Let's not call it that let's call it something else", "let's not talk about it" "I have nothing to add". Drivers conferences are remarkably even worse.

[frosty125]

Anyone got an idea of the lap time difference between compounds I'm interested as Button didn't do his fast lap on the option.

[Nick Sieczkowski]

I was at turn 2 and you can't even hear the cars coming down the straight. The first thing you hear is a whine as they approach turn 1, no engine noise at all. Unless you are within about 20m of the track (at a high speed section) you don't even have to raise your voice to talk above the engine noise (without ear plugs!). It definitely doesn't have the high pitched noise that can be heard from suburbs away now. In fact, unless it was dead quiet ie. no helicopters or anything flying anywhere near you etc., you can't even tell if anyone is even on track.
Each engine sounds unique though.

[i70q7m7ghw]

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

Sounds like my 1.3l Fiesta

[Redragon]

Anyone got an idea of the lap time difference between compounds I'm interested as Button didn't do his fast lap on the option.

Antena 3 were reporting that the difference between compounds are close to 2 seconds

[basti313]

Does any website have longrun times from FP2 already?

http://en.mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page ... 20Hamilton

Here you go m8. Mercedes looks even more dominant in longrun pace. Red Bull 2nd quickest funny enough.

Thanks!

Wow @Mercedes! Only team able to run 1:33.x consistent. RedBull seems second fastest (just crazy if you think about how they struggled at testing...) with Vettel running very inconsistent laptimes. Maybe due to lack of testing, but he also managed to do 2 laps in the high 1:33s.

The times of Vettel were very consistent. In each stint of the longrun he had tow laps behind another car, so this is nothing you have to look at.
It would be more interesting to know which tires they were running. If Vettel did his longrun on the softer compound and Massa his on the harder, RB would still be far behind.

[Bredd]

Anyone got an idea of the lap time difference between compounds I'm interested as Button didn't do his fast lap on the option.

Im pretty sure button did his time on the options. If you watch this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26573372

Button is on the yellow walled options.

[iotar__]

It's not that RB looks great (same for Ferrari) everyone else around them is average except Mercedes. It's all about reference points, look at long runs (depending on tyres, fuel etc.). Two good teams situation reduced to one, plus some Renault catching up judging from comments about "driveability".

[mclaren_mircea]

Anyone got an idea of the lap time difference between compounds I'm interested as Button didn't do his fast lap on the option.

Im pretty sure button did his time on the options. If you watch this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26573372

Button is on the yellow walled options.

What is the true about Button's tyres when he did his best time?
James Allen said that Button's time was on medium, NOT on soft.
"Sandwiched between the Red Bull pairing was the McLaren of Jenson Button, the three-time Australian Grand Prix winner ending the day 0.9s slower than Hamilton after taking second place in FP1. Interestingly he was the only driver to not run the soft tyre, maintaining a 0.5s buffer over team-mate Kevin Magnussen, who did."

And from Mclaren's report: ""Moreover, and encouragingly, he appreciates that there’s more to come – particularly when attempting to draw the full potential from a set of new Option tyres – but he’ll get there. "

So, was he on soft or on medium tyres? It's very important that if it was on medium, his time correlated with soft tyres he wwould be right behind Hamilton and Rosberg, and ahead of the Ferrari. =D>