2014 Testing - Jerez 28-31 Jan

[Vanja #66]

Actually Kimi made 3-4 installation laps in last 30 minutes...I think they're playing with some setup...

Haven't seen that on autosport live feed, thank you...

take it easy I think that in these days more than a matter of how many laps you do is that you are able actually to go out whenever you want and for how many laps you want and so far ferrari seems to have no problems in this regard.
maybe they are doing some aero test or something...

No, no, I'm not worried or anything, just asking since there wasn't any info on them... And if something was wrong, I have no doubt there would news about it all over the place...

[Cuky]

From Autosport:

Gutierrez improves to 1m35.824s, but Kimi goes fastest of all for Ferrari with 1m26.585s.

[majki2111]

Haha Kimi gives ypu answer fist 1.26:4.

[Rikhart]

Mercedes bragging about N1 @MercedesAMGF1: "Well would you look at that; top spot for @nico_rosberg with just under 2hrs left here at #Jerez today. He's ramping it up... #F1"

Then 1 min later, Raikkonen top spot...

[Cuky]

Bottas goes second with 1m26.577s, putting him ahead of both Rosberg and Button

[Forza]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keLcrTw7FOI[/youtube]

[kooleracer]

Rosberg on a 10 lap stint, that's encouraging. Far more important then laptimes is able to do a stint without cooling problems.

[Rikhart]

Well if they cant do 10 laps on winter conditions...

[Glyn]

Could someone put up a link that keeps track on each team's individual lap count AND stints?

Mercedes and Ferrari have done quite some multiple lap stints, but I fear Renault is much more down on that count.

Timing links are a bit unreliable for testing, but some are listed here http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... =1&t=17757

Autosport commentary page is the most useful, they gave the following summary an hour ago:

13:07 So, with just under three hours to go, a quick summary of the positions and laps completed so far:

1 Button, (McLaren) 1m27.556s, 32 laps
2 Perez, (Force India) 1m28.376s, 27 laps
3 Rosberg, (Mercedes) 1m29.231s, 24 laps
4 Bottas, (Williams) 1m37.762s, 17 laps
5 Raikkonen, (Ferrari) 1m38.272s, 16 laps
6 Vettel, (Red Bull) 1m38.320s, 8 laps
7 Gutierrez, (Sauber) 1m41.798s, 33 laps
8 Ericsson, (Caterham) no time, 1 lap

Autosport are reporting that Vettel has gone home!

Hopefully Mclaren has mounted the suspension the correct way up this time...

[iotar__]

Engine is not Renault's problem it's Red Bull Renault problem. Since they are a works team, like Mercedes, Ferrari, with all the benefits they are as a whole responsible. That's what you get when you let Newey influence engine design

[diemaster]

The Caterham has stopped and we have our third red flag of the day.

ooh man this is renault engine again

[gray41]

Spoiling everyone else's testing, Mercedes on a nice consistent run.

[Faustino]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keLcrTw7FOI

It looks like the majority of the drivers are struggling to get to grips with the amount of torque these new engines are producing, which begs the question.. how much can the teams be learning from an aero point of view if the cars aren't being driven anywhere near to their potential yet?

[FoxHound]

1. Valteri Bottas Williams FW36 1:26.322 28 laps.
2. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari F14 T 1:26.421 0.099 26 laps.
3. Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP W05 1:27.073 0.751 59 laps.
4. Jenson Button McLaren MP4-29 1:27.556 1.234 36 laps.
5. Sergio Perez Force India VJM07 1:28.376 2.054 37 laps.
6. Esteban Guti Sauber C33 1:33.363 7.041 43 laps.
7. Marcus Ericsson Caterham CT05 1:37.975 11.653 10 laps.
8. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull RB10 1:38.320 11.998 8 laps.
9. Jules Bianchi Marussia MR03 - - 0
10. Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso STR9 - - 0

[RicerDude]

21 consecutive laps for the Merc cut short because of a red flag caused by another Renault powered car breaking down.