Mercedes GP W02

[tarzoon]

Running hot, are we?

[Mandrake]

What do you refer to? The slits at the coke bottle ending of the sidepots?

[tarzoon]

yes. Actually, they were there before, I just missed them completely

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

It is the sexiest car on the grid for me. The W01 was ugly as sin, but this is lovely.

[dren]

From Autosport Live feed:

14:26 And while we wait, some insight from @TeamAnglais: I'll let someone else decide when it's the right time to start worrying about the pace of the Mercedes. But here are the details of the 14-lap run Rosberg just did before he stopped:

28.1, 23.9, 23.9, 24.4, 24.5, 24.3, 24.6, 25.0, 26.2, 25.4, 25.3, 26.1, 26.0, 25.7

He then pitted a couple of times but rejoined without refuelling or changing tyres:

26.5, 27.1, 26.8

Earlier, Webber was consistently in the 1m23s over a similar 19-lap run. Massa dipped into the 1m22s and then 1m24s late on two long runs. The only other car to do a stint as long as 12 laps so far is Trulli, and he dropped from 1m24/25s to 1m26s at the end.

[Mandrake]

As encouraging as the long runs in Valencia were, as worrying are the times today, I only hope they were filled 120% or not flooring it at all....

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

Interesting Dren.

But with the cars having fuel loads to do 70 laps, 1 seconds difference between Webbo and Rosberg can mean a fuel difference of 15 laps
Eg Rosberg full and Webber on 55 laps worth.

Conversely it could mean the opposite in which case Mercedes are dead ducks.

Not enough to go by just yet.

[dren]

I'm not too worried yet as it doesn't seem like Mercedes is worried, but time will tell. Let's hope the car was filled to the brim.

[AbbaleRacing77]

It is the sexiest car on the grid for me. The W01 was ugly as sin, but this is lovely.

Honestly I though the w01 was pretty sexy as well. I loved the look of the low swooping nose and the color scheme is just beautiful. But I agree the w02 is definitely the sexiest car on the grid, it follows a very German design philosophy. The ugliest car is definitely the mclaren the first 2 years they used that chrome paint was kinda cool but now it's just getting old... Now with those predator style side pods it looks even worse. Just my opinion of course...

[toshinden]

It is the sexiest car on the grid for me. The W01 was ugly as sin, but this is lovely.

Honestly I though the w01 was pretty sexy as well. I loved the look of the low swooping nose and the color scheme is just beautiful. But I agree the w02 is definitely the sexiest car on the grid, it follows a very German design philosophy. The ugliest car is definitely the mclaren the first 2 years they used that chrome paint was kinda cool but now it's just getting old... Now with those predator style side pods it looks even worse. Just my opinion of course...

as well to me, two things i love the most from W01. the nose and the blade

[tarzoon]

same here.

Wouldn't it be for the ugly colour scheme, the red bull would have been the best looking.

[Ferraripilot]

I'm sort of seeing W02 as Ferrari's sports cars from the 70s. Hardly the quickest things around but certainly the most beautiful. I'm a huge Schu fan so they better be playing tricks on us for the moment.

Anyone know what the deal is with their heat issue? Manifold problem maybe?

[dren]

Well heavy fueled or not, the car is putting in slow times. The same thing happened to Mclaren two years ago. Hopefully we will hear more.

[toshinden]

any negative comment yet from the drivers?

[dren]

any negative comment yet from the drivers?

Last test both were positive on the handling. Nico said it was quite better than last year's car. But I haven't heard anything yet on this test. Nico should have a quote out soon.