Unless we are extracting performance to pit less?
Unless we are extracting performance to pit less?
Was there any explanation of the crash from yesterday? was it driver error or did something break?
Automotosport compare times Vet & HAm its about 1:18:666 really? And our car go to scrutineering for checking safety requirements.Thet sad:" Theoretically, the teams could even drive underweight."
I lol-ed so much from this sequence from F1Today.
(times indicated are local time, sorry)
SANBAGGING FOR THE FERRARI
Vettel's lap was on the ultra soft tyre but he lifted as he crossed the start-finish line. Ferrari are sandbagging.
Update posted on 19:34:22
VETTEL SETS A NEW FASTEST LAP
Wow, Vettel gets right to it. A new fastest lap of 1:19.164 is the fastest lap we've seen in winter testing so far.
Update posted on 19:32:50
Tobi Grüner @tgruener
Vettel best S1 & S2 + Hamilton best S3 = 1:18.666 Min.
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Hey guys! Wasn't Seb supposed to hold a press conference at the break? Any news?
Can anyone explain what this statement means? "The FIA incorporated rules about what angle the side pods should be, and paragraph 3.8.8 says that that angle should be 75 degrees. This is purely to aid aesthetics - aerodynamicists would prefer the angle be 90 degrees to help air flow" What is this side pod angle they talk about?
Hve to work this afternoon have fun with testing guys!
That's what I thought, but didn't think everyone else had them at 75 degrees. I'll go see some more pics. Thanks
Sebastian Vettel sets fastest time in F1 Testing but says Mercedes are still the team to beat in F1 2017 - Very logical from Vettel and Ferrari
I'm keeping my hopes in check. Looking at those Mercedes onboards, they look ominous
Rumors from Albert Fabrega ES,we could do race simulation today
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Autosport21:52 Vettel's still behind the Toro Rosso and this is costing him on what we think is a race sim. That last lap was 1.5s slower than his previous
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I know it's only testing and blah, blah, blah but, all in all, we've had a very promising time of it so far.
Despite that, the anti-Ferrari BS emanating from Andrew Benson at the BBC makes even the Ferrari-haters at Autosport seem pro-Scuderia.. Any obscure set of extrapolations he can come up with to make the Mercedes seem the car to beat, he will.
I hope we stuff Mercedes this year, if only to spite the glory hunting drones who shout for them.
Trying to be less angry..
From Autosport:
They both seem to be doing a race sim, 2s a lap is huge and even accounting for the fact that Ricciardo is on meds to Seb's softs.15:28 During the first stint, with both on soft tyres, Vettel averaged 1m25.1s over 14 laps. Plus, he spent two laps tucked up behind Kvyat. Ricciardo averaged 1m26.3s over 12 laps. Advantage Ferrari so far.
15:24 Such has been the pace difference between Vettel and Ricciardo on this second stint that the two cars started the stint nose-to-tail and now Vettel crosses the line with Ricciardo not even in sight heading into Turn 13.
15:19 Three 1m24.0s from Vettel, three 1m26.0s from Ricciardo. How good are these boys?
15:18 The Ferrari just looks so much easier to thread through Turn 13 and into the chicane. Ricciardo's making it much more of an 'S' – and that was the case before he took on a harder compound of tyre than Vettel.
Kyvat Red Flag..Our race sims postpones for a while now..
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Damn ....
Ok so let's just say that Marko called in a "favor" from Torro Rosso, to prevent Ricciardo being lapped by Seb.
Green...
In the meantime
Vettel (S) #SF70H Out 24.6 24.4 24.7 24.9 26.4 traffic 26.4 traffic 24.4 25.1 24.9 25.0 25.0 25.02 4.9 25.2 BOX -S-out#F1Testing #Day7 #F1And Vettel (probably) resume his race sims with medium nowVettels 2nd stint til the red flag (soft) 1:24.0 - 1:23.9 - 1:23.9 - 1:24.0 - 1:23.7 - 1:24.0 - 1:24.0 - 1:24.0 - 1:23.6 - 1:23.8 - 1:23.9 - 1:24.0 - 1:23.8 - 1:23.9 - 1:23.9 - 1:23.7 - 1:23.8
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Seb looks to be more comfortable with the new car than Kimi. Hope Raikkonen proves me wrong tomorrow, but he has had a lot of misfortunes and the number of laps isnt great.
The cooling conduct that was integrated with the floor has been taken off today.
2nd stint looks great. 17 laps with almost the same times :)
Art without engineering is dreaming. Engineering without art is calculating. Steven K. Roberts
In comparison to Red Bull (Ricciardo), Vettel's race sim is super impressive.
20:52 Vettel's onto his 26th flying lap on these medium tyres and his pace is just starting to fade – his last two laps have been in the 1m25s.
20:47 Massa, who is at the foot of the times, sets a personal best 1m25.080s.
20:47 We've crunched the numbers for the second stint from Vettel and Ricciardo. Vettel, on softs, averaged 1m23.9s over 17 laps. Ricciardo, on mediums, averaged 1m26.1s over 16 laps.
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