You dont want to understand. I said, they have to run, so if they do not run any km, then when? Second point, Ricciardo himself said, you dont learn anything meaningful in 2 degree temperatures, and this is what I was trying to tell you, you dont learn so much in these conditions, and Ferrari would have run if it was dry, but they did not want to take a chance in damaging the car, plus running in the rain as they already had 80laps. Mercedes did 83 laps. Only 3 laps better. We are the 3rd or 4th in the lap count. The two of the teams who ran more than us, they had to run, Honda and Renault, they had to do reliability testing because this is a problem for them. Its the first day, we did 80 laps. Sure, more would have been better, but it was raining, track is dirty, cold, track temp was in the 8 or 9 degree range, so its really cold. Ferrari even ran softs to see if they can warm them up to get meaningful data.
Also, you are saying, no matter what, even if you dont get any meaningful data, plus, its cold, and rainy, and you sent the driver out, then when he crash, you blame him, saying its his problem. Then, when you dont have spare parts, then what you will do? Sit the next two days and wait for the parts? So, you sent a driver out, in the cold rainy conditions, tell him to just drive around, aimless, then if he crash, you wait for two days, miss two days of testing, put the whole program behind, yes?
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/13...hind-the-times
Gary Anderson seems to be eating a little bit of his own words again this year, at least today!
Day 1 testing in miles and laps and by single team
Renault engines - 255laps 1187.02km add an additional 22 laps and 102.41km = 277laps & 1289.43km
RedBull - 105 laps 488.77km
Renault - 99 laps 460.84km
Mclaren - 51 laps 237.40km (tyre fell off in 1 session) so lost laps but lets use Force India's total of 22 laps and 102.41 km
Ferrari engines - 198laps 921.69km
Ferrari - 80 laps 373.40km
Sauber - 63 laps 293.26km
Haas - 55 laps 256.02km
Mercedes engines - 178 laps 828.59km
Mercedes - 83 laps 383.36km
Williams - 73 laps 339.81km
Force Inda - 22 laps 102.41
So given Renaults mileage and data collection.....who has more and who gains from this?
I realize this is day one but someone put the order out there to gain as many laps as possible for all teams under Renault. While it may be okay for a few that we beat Mercedes, I would not want Ferrari to be in this predicament. You know how strong the Mercedes Works Team is. We need to be beating everyone in mileage and data collection. Tomorrow is a new day and we have the rest of the week.
Well, I would get the average of both Renaults (Redbull & Renault) and add that total to the Mclaren thereby raising everything else from Renault as a whole. Care for a redo?
I'm not crying like we have never in the history have done the most miles...we have but the past is completely different from this year.
So 2023 started off bad, but managed to claw back some lap time come end of the year. Lets hope SF24 will give us tifosi something to smile about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF7mzheacrg
Teds notebook!!
oopps, beat me to it.
It snowed(light) last night in Barcelona...this morning.
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who's on track today...fyi
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Just FYI, no one cares about you twos little pi$$ing contest. Can we just talk about testing please? I hate getting notifications to come here and see it’s just arbitrary bickering.
We’re here to talk testing, and Ferrari! You two clearly have a different view on something. Good for you!
The boys this morning getting ready....with coats.
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I did.....and to right I did an addition IF the Mclaren DID NOT have it's incident using a conservative figure.....or I could use the average of the two.
Track temp this morning at 9am...2.8c
little damp but it should dry up for testing.
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BREAKING NEWS!
Big breaking news: Martini will no longer be a sponsor of Williams following the 2018 season.!!
Anybody know about this ??
Drive it like you stole it!
Overhead shot of Seb in the car......
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So RBR quickest yesterday, interesting although it's only testing.
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