2018 pre-season testing thread

[godlameroso]

What a waste, hopefully it's better weather from here on in. It's only expected to rain in the last hour of testing tomorrow, and temperatures will be in the double digits.

[GoranF1]

Mclaren is making the biggest progress in this test definetly..
Day 1 P5
Day 2 P3
Day 3 P2

We all know whats coming tomorrow.

[Morteza]

We have a lap time!

Alonso did a 2m21.268s on wet tires. And then he improved it with a 2m18.545s

[media]https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/968891319312683008[/media]

[HPD]

Marketing Team P1 ! (joke, relax)

It's a good time I do not know if it was worth the risk.

After each quick lap, Mclaren must cool the area

[McHonda]

Considering that it's really unlikely for gravel to damage that part of the exhaust, as well as the fact that they most likely had the engine cover off during the night and would've definitely caught any damage done there, I don't think it's related in any way.

Yeah,good point.

Sorry dude but Toro Rosso did 175 laps with the Honda engine today.
Mclaren did 88 with renault and red bull did 172 , so maybe mclaren isnt that good at integrating engines

STR-H have done great yeah but not sure McLaren's issues were to do with packaging. The wheelnut certainly wasn't and there was 40-50 laps lost there and while yesterday they said it was a bracket breaking which also wouldn't be packaging, I think there's enough rumours kicking around about it happening again that it's best to leave that open as a possibility to be fair so there may well be some gremlins, I haven't a clue at this point.

Still positives. The cars getting praise by those at the track, the suspensions getting admiring glances and apparently because of the temp and track surface there isn't much between compounds which would suggest they look pretty good on the time sheet too but it's still too early with too many unknowns to get either excited or down about it.

[GM7]

Well, not a lot of information today...

PS : This is an Excel document not the official F1 design

[PhillipM]

After each quick lap, Mclaren must cool the area

That's a pretty good sign that the exhaust issues there were just heat buildup when there's no airflow after parking in the garage, so probably nothing a thicker ceramic coating or reflective foil can't fix.

[GoranF1]

Marketing Team P1 ! (joke, relax)

It's a good time I do not know if it was worth the risk.

After each quick lap, Mclaren must cool the area

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXI0STYXUAIIzLr.jpg

Even whit this big hendicap still finished all 3 days in front of TR, and will finish in all of the remaining sesison in 2018 from now until Abu Dhabi.

[bauc]

If overheating exhaust pipe is Mclaren's biggest problem in the pre-season well, I'm all in!!!!

Fingers crossed for the rest of the 5 days remaining.

[HPD]

After each quick lap, Mclaren must cool the area

That's a pretty good sign that the exhaust issues there were just heat buildup when there's no airflow after parking in the garage, so probably nothing a thicker ceramic coating or reflective foil can't fix.

Still not known
Mclaren still did not do long runs.

[Morteza]

The results of today

[McHonda]

Over 5x the laps of their nearest rival and more than all the other teams combined!!!

Pfft, who said there was a problem...

[Manoah2u]

Marketing Team P1 ! (joke, relax)

It's a good time I do not know if it was worth the risk.

After each quick lap, Mclaren must cool the area

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXI0STYXUAIIzLr.jpg

TOTALLY offtopic but whoa, that shade of blue is looking fantastic in the right lighting.

[GoranF1]

Also

[media]https://twitter.com/alo_oficial/status/ ... twterm%5E0[/media]

[FrukostScones]

Nexxt week will be hot, I mean great... Short Ranking: .
1. MERC. Still ominous.
2. RB/ Ferrari
3. Renault / McLaren
4. Williams. The car, not them paydrivers.
5. Force India
6. Haas
7. TR
8. Sauber