More teams have hit trouble in the final day of pre-season testing at Barcelona. At a moment when one would expect reliability issues to be nearly ironed out, the lack of running for some teams was surprising.
[/quote]Update from McLaren
Don't expect to see Fernando Alonso back out on track for a little while - McLaren are expecting at least a delay of a couple of hours as parts of the car were damaged in the gravel (in addition you'd presume to the wheel)
And confirmation from the team that the wheel problem caused the spin.
god damn.....i heard before the crash Alonso was setting faster sector1&2 times than Bottasturbof1 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 11:46Gonna say definitely more. Floor and diffuser will need to be patched and they will have to investigate the broken wheel nut and possible the other wheelnuts as well. Don't expect them to be out again before the afternoon.
Or something as simple as the wheelnut not being fitted correctly.
Session 1 of day 1 of testing - times aren't important, reliable and consistent data is. You don't go out to set fastest laps from lap one, you go out to check systems and get some data. Fast times come later. The only reason for setting fast times is to attract attention and thus, hopefully, sponsorship.
Even if that is the case, there are little hooks that prevent the wheel to come of. Could be a double failure... all in all, not something that should happen and you don't want to happen. Bit like Hamilton's wing coming off a couple of years ago at his first lap at winter testing.
Also on supersofts was he. Don't get carried away so far.GoranF1 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 11:49god damn.....i heard before the crash Alonso was setting faster sector1&2 times than Bottas
reliable data can only come from going quickJust_a_fan wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 11:56Session 1 of day 1 of testing - times aren't important, reliable and consistent data is. You don't go out to set fastest laps from lap one, you go out to check systems and get some data. Fast times come later. The only reason for setting fast times is to attract attention and thus, hopefully, sponsorship.
Total tosh.johnny comelately wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 12:01reliable data can only come from going quickJust_a_fan wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 11:56Session 1 of day 1 of testing - times aren't important, reliable and consistent data is. You don't go out to set fastest laps from lap one, you go out to check systems and get some data. Fast times come later. The only reason for setting fast times is to attract attention and thus, hopefully, sponsorship.
alonso's body language is totally: "here we go again."GoranF1 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 12:00[media]https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/968062051099783168[/media]
