Ferrari’s Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc posted the quickest lap on the final day of pre-season testing in Bahrain to end the running on top ahead of Mercedes racer George Russell and Stake F1 driver Zhou Guanyu.
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All rumours of gained tenths I've seen so far are (the more doubtful the better )
Ferrari: 0.5s Nugnes Motorsport Italy
AMR: 0.6s apparently said by Stroll
Mercedes: "over half a second" Nugnes Motorsport Italy, so let's say 0.6s
Nugnes really has no shame whatsoever, he already screwed up that Mercedes was going to retain pullrod and now he apparently has access to the simulator data of several teams. Incredible
All rumours of gained tenths I've seen so far are (the more doubtful the better )
Ferrari: 0.5s Nugnes Motorsport Italy
AMR: 0.6s apparently said by Stroll
Mercedes: "over half a second" Nugnes Motorsport Italy, so let's say 0.6s
Nugnes really has no shame whatsoever, he already screwed up that Mercedes was going to retain pullrod and now he apparently has access to the simulator data of several teams. Incredible
Nugnes never said 0.5s gained IIRC. 0.5s was reported by Formu1a.uno and only related to pure aero improvements. Also we are talking about wind tunnel data.
Nugnes never said 0.5s gained IIRC. 0.5s was reported by Formu1a.uno and only related to pure aero improvements. Also we are talking about wind tunnel data.
Someone who understands Italian please help, I only can understand basic words, but I think Nugnes has said at the end of the video that the expectations are of a performance increase of 5 tenths.
"si parla de una crescita prestazionale di un mezzo secondo"
Nugnes never said 0.5s gained IIRC. 0.5s was reported by Formu1a.uno and only related to pure aero improvements. Also we are talking about wind tunnel data.
Someone who understands Italian please help, I only can understand basic words, but I think Nugnes has said at the end of the video that the expectations are of a performance increase of 5 tenths.
"si parla de una crescita prestazionale di un mezzo secondo"
I just finished watching this video.
Nugnes said that an ex Journalist, Alessandro Stefanini (which is considered the biggest "Fiorano expert" in the world because he has been there his entire life as a F1 journalist) was at the SF 24 filming day. He was also able to take lap times with his "watch" (Nugnes add that of course he is not 100% precise, but he is quite good and consistent at taking lap times) and the car was performing over 0.5s better than the SF 23 on average (so not related to the fastest lap vs fastest lap of the 2 cars).
Nugnes add that Alessandro told him the SF 23 was garbage last year
In any event, as you can see, this is very different from saying the car will be 0.5s quicker.
Nugnes never said 0.5s gained IIRC. 0.5s was reported by Formu1a.uno and only related to pure aero improvements. Also we are talking about wind tunnel data.
Someone who understands Italian please help, I only can understand basic words, but I think Nugnes has said at the end of the video that the expectations are of a performance increase of 5 tenths.
"si parla de una crescita prestazionale di un mezzo secondo"
I just finished watching this video.
Nugnes said that an ex Journalist, Alessandro Stefanini (which is considered the biggest "Fiorano expert" in the world because he has been there his entire life as a F1 journalist) was at the SF 24 filming day. He was also able to take lap times with his "watch" (Nugnes add that of course he is not 100% precise, but he is quite good and consistent at taking lap times) and the car was performing around 0.5s better than the SF 23 on average (so not related to the fastest lap vs fastest lap of the 2 cars).
Nugnes add that Alessandro told him the SF 23 was garbage last year
In any event, as you can see, this is very different from saying the car will be 0.5s quicker.
I just finished watching this video.
Nugnes said that an ex Journalist, Alessandro Stefanini (which is considered the biggest "Fiorano expert" in the world because he has been there his entire life as a F1 journalist) was at the SF 24 filming day. He was also able to take lap times with his "watch" (Nugnes add that of course he is not 100% precise, but he is quite good and consistent at taking lap times) and the car was performing over 0.5s better than the SF 23 on average (so not related to the fastest lap vs fastest lap of the 2 cars).
Nugnes add that Alessandro told him the SF 23 was garbage last year
In any event, as you can see, this is very different from saying the car will be 0.5s quicker.
Hmm. So half a second around Fiorano maybe equates to .75s around a normal length circuit. Let's hope for a bit more than that given that's vs launch spec SF23.
I just finished watching this video.
Nugnes said that an ex Journalist, Alessandro Stefanini (which is considered the biggest "Fiorano expert" in the world because he has been there his entire life as a F1 journalist) was at the SF 24 filming day. He was also able to take lap times with his "watch" (Nugnes add that of course he is not 100% precise, but he is quite good and consistent at taking lap times) and the car was performing over 0.5s better than the SF 23 on average (so not related to the fastest lap vs fastest lap of the 2 cars).
Nugnes add that Alessandro told him the SF 23 was garbage last year
In any event, as you can see, this is very different from saying the car will be 0.5s quicker.
Hmm. So half a second around Fiorano maybe equates to .75s around a normal length circuit. Let's hope for a bit more than that given that's vs launch spec SF23.
I just finished watching this video.
Nugnes said that an ex Journalist, Alessandro Stefanini (which is considered the biggest "Fiorano expert" in the world because he has been there his entire life as a F1 journalist) was at the SF 24 filming day. He was also able to take lap times with his "watch" (Nugnes add that of course he is not 100% precise, but he is quite good and consistent at taking lap times) and the car was performing over 0.5s better than the SF 23 on average (so not related to the fastest lap vs fastest lap of the 2 cars).
Nugnes add that Alessandro told him the SF 23 was garbage last year
In any event, as you can see, this is very different from saying the car will be 0.5s quicker.
Hmm. So half a second around Fiorano maybe equates to .75s around a normal length circuit. Let's hope for a bit more than that given that's vs launch spec SF23.
I predict Alonso win in Bahrain.
You heard it here first.
This Just made me remember that last year Bahrain had lot of Alonso Hype train.
Wonder if anyone can create similar hype this year
Hype train even before the 1st day of test is mindblowing!
Last year rumours of their numbers had been around for weeks before the test already. This year we haven't really got that sort of rumour flying around
Yeah, this year I wouldn't be shocked if nothing really changes, because every teams finds about the same amount of time, some a bit more, some a bit less.