2010 Winter Testing

[Giblet]

8 teams within 1 second.

Staring to look like last year. Very close. Every little development will count, and teams that look fast now, with poor development, will tank fast by half season.

I am getting excited already, and two weeks away.

[WhiteBlue]

Restart afer red flag caused by Kovalainen. Three minutes to the checkered flag. Quali sims by everyone!

Two laps and another red flag concludes the running in the 2010 pre season testing.

16:02 Either way, it's still the end of the final test day.

16:02 That red flag might've been a bit of timing system confusion, as the screens at Catalunya now say chequered flag instead.

16:01 Even before the session was stopped, the sector times suggested no one was going for a low fuel flier.

Circuit status: Air temperature: 16 ° C
Track temperature: 24 ° C
Test times Updated: 17:02
driver team Drive time difference #
1. L. Hamilton McLaren MP4-25 1:20.472 134 pit
2. M. Webber Red Bull Racing RB6 1:20.496 +0,024 61 pit
3. F. Bulk Ferrari F10 1:20.539 +0,067 114 pit
4. A. Sutil Force India VJM-03 1:20.611 +0,139 100 pit
5. S. Vettel Red Bull Racing RB6 1:20.667 +0,195 76 pit
6. M. Schumacher Mercedes GP W01 1:20.745 +0,273 123 pit
7. R. Barrichello Williams FW32 1:20.870 +0,398 84 pit
8. K. Kobayashi Sauber C29 1:20.911 +0,439 67 pit
9. S. Buemi Toro Rosso STR5 1:22.135 +1,663 88 pit
10. R. Kubica Renault R30 1:23.175 +2,703 107 pit
11. H. Kovalainen Lotus F1 T127 1:25.251 +4,779 65 pit
12. L. Di Grassi Virgin Racing VR-01 1:26.160 +5,688 49 pit

Incidents
time driver incident green
16:45 H. Kovalainen Stop, Turn 4 16:54
16:20 R. Barrichello Stop, Turn 4 16:33
16:09 K. Kobayashi Stop, turn 2 16:18
11:05 K. Kobayashi Stop, turn 9 11:14
09:58 R. Barrichello Spin, Turn 4 10:12

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

16:01 Even before the session was stopped, the sector times suggested no one was going for a low fuel flier.

[Pedro]

Barcelona, Day 4, Final results:



F1news.cz http://f1news.cz/novinky/34104-zpravy-z ... jrychlejsi

[PlatinumZealot]

The Boss has dropped the gavel. Court adjourned!

[Pedro]

Barcelona - Summary (all four days)

[ESPImperium]

Distance and laps accross ALL tests for 2010, usual Blue line for the distance, green line for the laps;

Drivers:


Teams:


Engines:

[Pedro]

Summary of all pre-season test
(Valencia, Jerez I, Jerez II, Barcelona)



Based on TSL timings and mileage (as I see different numbers above my post):
http://www.tsl-timing.com/?loc=major&se ... nt=testing

[ESPImperium]

My numbers come all from F1 Today and verified by team press realeases.

[Giblet]

The Boss has dropped the gavel. Court adjourned!

Had to fix that for you.

[ringo]

it's been 50 minutes and no Lewis on track wats going on

McLaren are practicing pitstops.

Hope he sets a blinder early on, Just in case of weather problems later.Im dying to see the mclarens true pace.. [-o<

Only Button can show the true pace of the Mclaren. Hamilton will make the car look better than it actually is. The competition is looking pretty tight, but that is when driver ability comes through.

[Pedro]

My numbers come all from F1 Today and verified by team press realeases.

That's why our lap count are slightly different.


I wonder how did you count the mileage. There you have wrong numbers I guess.

Let's take Massa (we have the same number of laps):

Total 851 laps = 226 laps at Valencia (4,005 km per lap) + 232 laps at Jerez I (4,428 km) + 164 at Jerez II (4,428 km) + 229 at Barcelona (4,655 km)

Total mileage = 905,130 km (Valencia) + 1027,296 km (Jerez I) + 726,192 km (Jerez II) + 1065,995 km (Barcelona) = 3724,613 km

How did you get 3726,903 km?

[godlameroso]

Last year's Q3 Pole lap was a 1:20.527, that was on a two stopper, if this is the best they can do running on fumes then they succeeded in slowing the cars down a bit.

The only driver to get under 1:20 was Barichello during Q2, also he had the fastest lap of the race a 1:22.762

[ESPImperium]

My numbers come all from F1 Today and verified by team press realeases.

That's why our lap count are slightly different.


I wonder how did you count the mileage. There you have wrong numbers I guess.

Let's take Massa (we have the same number of laps):

Total 851 laps = 226 laps at Valencia (4,005 km per lap) + 232 laps at Jerez I (4,428 km) + 164 at Jerez II (4,428 km) + 229 at Barcelona (4,655 km)

Total mileage = 905,130 km (Valencia) + 1027,296 km (Jerez I) + 726,192 km (Jerez II) + 1065,995 km (Barcelona) = 3724,613 km

How did you get 3726,903 km?

My Massa figures:

Test 1: Distance: 905.130 Laps: 226 @ 4.005 Km a lap
Test 2: Distance: 960.876 Laps: 217 @ 4.428 Km a lap
Test 3: Distance: 726.192 Laps: 164 @ 4.428 Km a lap
Test 4: Distance: 1,068.285 Laps: 229 @ 4.665 Km a lap

I think its my Barcelona lap distance that is the difference.

[WhiteBlue]

I have looked into who caused red flags.



There were a total of 53 red flags in 15 days of running.
Rubens Barrichello was the red king with 8 flags.
Petrov was best rookie with 0 flags.
Liuzzi and Alguersuari also covered a lot of ground without causing a red flag.
Kovalainen, Di Grassi and Glock were clearly fighting with Gremlins.
On average we had a red flag every 239 laps.
Kubica, Schumacher and Hamilton ran 600-750 laps/red flag.
Barrichello, Rosberg and Webber had significantly above average red flags without good excuse.
Kobayashi confirmed the rookie crash trend of Japanese drivers.