Red Bull RB6

[segedunum]

Well, Nick Heidfeld has given a frank assessment of where he thinks the Red Bull is based on his testing observations. He goes into a fair bit of detail actually:

http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... l=de&tl=en

Sorry, it's German translated to you have to read everything at least a couple of times to get the meaning. The word 'frightening' is even used in there, so that's clear.

Even if the speed is there as Heidfeld thinks though, I'll be suprised if they don't have a few retirements. They can't just paint over their testing mishaps in a few weeks.

[ringo]

Very good assessment, he should be a commentator if that is allowed by the teams.

[gary1203]

Well, Nick Heidfeld has given a frank assessment of where he thinks the Red Bull is based on his testing observations. He goes into a fair bit of detail actually:

http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... l=de&tl=en

Sorry, it's German translated to you have to read everything at least a couple of times to get the meaning. The word 'frightening' is even used in there, so that's clear.

Even if the speed is there as Heidfeld thinks though, I'll be suprised if they don't have a few retirements. They can't just paint over their testing mishaps in a few weeks.

google translator is fun lol
though it's still understandable

back to the topic
I'm glad to see RB6 got such a nice review
so apparently the car is a downforce beast huh?
would this has anything to do with our special exhaust pipe?

[BreezyRacer]

English cover of Heidfield's comments ..
http://www.crash.net/f1/news/157603/1/h ... ening.html

[segedunum]

He's a good, experienced analytical driver is Nick. How he hasn't got a drive when you see some of the 'talent' that's coming in right now, despite the big name drivers, I have no idea. They've just picked out the highlight of what he said at crash.net, but it hasn't captured all of the detail about the different teams he went into unfortunately. That really seems more interesting.

Nick says what I've thought all along about Red Bull, and their continuity from last season seems entirely logical. I'm interested in Red Bull's pit-stops. I just hope it doesn't all become an anti-climax.

[Giblet]

Kate and her dirty sister have been kicked to the kerb.

Luscious Liz is here now, and she doesn't want the exes hanging around.

We might see Kate or her sister once in a while, for a quicky with a test driver, or DC might take them out for the occasional tryst.

[raceman]

Kate and her dirty sister have been kicked to the kerb.

Luscious Liz is here now, and she doesn't want the exes hanging around.

We might see Kate or her sister once in a while, for a quicky with a test driver, or DC might take them out for the occasional tryst.

[segedunum]

Well, Red Bull certainly look fast and unless Ferrari are better over a race (or Red Bull have a famous engine, gearbox or <insert problem here> problem) distance I can't see Vettel being beaten. I don't know what happened to Webber and can only hope he made a mistake.

[Mysticf1]

Webber dropped a heap of time in the middle sector, after hearing Rosberg's comment about one mistake and ur tyres are no good for the rest of the lap i can only assume thats what happened.

[BreezyRacer]

Is it possible that Webber was on the hard tires? It would make sense but I couldn't see anything to tell ..

[ringo]

Heidfeld was very right, the car is very planted in the turns. Vettel's sector 2 was what was very strong. The car had no drama with the suspension going through there. It could be sprung less stif, but setting up for pole is always welcome with Vettel.

[roost89]

Webber lost time in turns 18 and 19 were due to him messing up.
He locked the rears into 18, losing 2 tenths
tried to regain time through 19 and lost 4 tenths

Source: Autosport Q&A

[segedunum]

Bugger. I wish I hadn't been sort of right now - we'll see if I was really right tomorrow. I haven't even put money on Vettel or Red Bull! I had a sneaking feeling Red Bull were hiding something in winter testing, especially when I saw its complete lack of drama through high speed corners and how much it rode kerbs and some bumps better than last year's car in some testing clips. That's where last year's car had a weakness. The times they were producing were just too average with their main rivals and looked as if they were just matching them. Heidfeld must have seen something similar, and he's seen more of the car than I have.

I don't even think the pole lap was terribly great for Vettel. He was faster than that earlier on, but I think he was really trying to make sure he didn't take too much out of the tyres as they started going away. I did expect him to be a fair bit further ahead.

The only saving grace is if the Red Bull is a bit hard on its tyres, and that could really open the door for Ferrari or perhaps Mercedes during the race. The McLaren just looks too unstable for me and all that fuel can't make that up. It's difficult to tell now as all teams have the same problem at Bahrain. If the tyre degredation turns out to be fine relative to everyone else, and it might well be if they're riding kerbs and bumps better, and they don't have a famous reliability gremlin..............it'll be one of the biggest anti-climaxes there's been in the sport. They have so much more downforce it's silly.

[i70q7m7ghw]

Red Bull impractical exhausts lose vettel the race.

[Fil]

maybe the exhaust stickers fell off..