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After two days of having Vettel on top of the timesheets, Nico Rosberg put his name on the list by going 0.3s faster than second quickest, Vitaly Petrov. Third fastest was Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren, for the first time complete a considerable amount of laps.
YeahBlackout wrote:It's the R30
. Why LRGP exposed in Barcelona repainted R30? 
That's one hell of a claim to make. I'd like to see your logic...n smikle wrote:The torro rosso is just behind Ferrari in terms of ouright speed.
Testingscotty86 wrote:That's one hell of a claim to make. I'd like to see your logic...n smikle wrote:The torro rosso is just behind Ferrari in terms of ouright speed.
"Ferrari are superb under breaking. The car looks like it handles well, doesn't seem to have too many problems with the tyres compared to a lot of other teams.
The Red Bull can get on the throttle quicker than the other teams, in that sense it is in a league of its own. However, after a while it gets a bit twitchier as the tyres wear down.
The Merc is awful, it looks slow and very dificult to handle. It seems to suit Schumacher more than Rosberg.
Mclaren, I don't know what to make of it. It definately looked a lot better in Hamilton's hands than Button's. With Button driving, it was all over the place. It was still nervous and twitchy in Hamilton's hands. It doesn't look slow, but it that quick either.
Lotus Renault, initially I thought the car looked slow, but it looked like it was consistantly heavily fuelled. However, it didn't appear to be too bad on the tyres. It looked consistant and there were a couple of times it didn't look as heavily fuelled and it did look a lot quicker.
Focee India was sometimes looking good and then sometimes looking twitchy. I cant make up my mind with that car.
STR, same as Force India.
Williams, fast car but a little bit nervous at times, I think it is in the top 4.
Team Lotus, looks like it has gained some downforce from last year, however how much of a step forward it has taken is an unknown.
Virgin is again the same as Team Lotus.
HRT, enough said. It looked awful.
I did get up close and personal with some used Pirelli tyres (they weren't Virgins tyres), and I have no idea how many laps had been done on them but they were grained and cracked.
I am no expert, but that was my observations. I could be wrong but Ferrari and Red Bull look to be out in front and the others have quite a bit of a margin to find to catch them up. I am not looking at this from a Ferrari fan perspective, but that is what it looked like from the track. And these observations looked pretty much similar whether the cars were on high fuel loads or not because quite often it was obvious whether they were on a high fuel load or not as the way the cars handled were slightly different and a trend emerged. It is hard to explain."
The reason why the R30 was repainted was to show off the livery long before they show the R31.Lurk wrote:Advertisment shoot I think.
McLaren went with a MP4/23 and Williams with a FW30 in their luggages, but they were not repainted.
Keep trying! I will reveal my methods after the first race.raymondu999 wrote:You're seriously predicting that McLaren are slower than Toro Rosso by testing times? I mean, honestly?
I just don't buy that whole story, suiting MSC more than Rosberg etc. It's the same bashing as last year when they all said that Rosberg will suffer from any changes to the car made for MSC....FrukostScones wrote:found on f1zone.net (this is not my personal opinion, I just quote it.)
"The Merc is awful, it looks slow and very dificult to handle. It seems to suit Schumacher more than Rosberg.
Schuey Rosberg 01:30.456 01:32.431 01:30.657 01:32.329 01:31.326 01:31.943 01:31.206 01:32.480 01:31.526 01:32.236 01:31.998 01:32.218 01:32.517 01:32.119 01:33.481 01:32.256 01:33.516 01:34.230 01:33.564 01:32.745 01:33.685 01:33.837 01:33.803 ---- 01:34.814 01:33.837 ---- 01:30.151 01:31.264 01:30.453 01:31.982 01:30.855 01:32.432 01:30.967 01:32.227 ---- 01:31.331 01:30.967 01:31.714 01:31.767 01:31.782 01:31.370 01:31.785 01:31.609 01:31.764 01:32.072 01:32.312 01:32.394 01:32.524 01:32.632 01:32.361 01:32.486 01:32.878 01:33.000 01:33.076 01:33.511 ---- 01:33.530 01:33.076 ---- 01:29.095 01:33.530 01:29.803 01:30.941 01:30.247 01:30.935 01:30.220 01:31.253 01:30.629 01:31.216 01:30.268 01:30.851 01:30.150 01:30.980 01:31.079 01:31.188 01:30.578 01:31.315 01:31.077 01:33.799 01:30.650 01:31.512 01:30.426 01:31.678 01:30.473 01:32.693 01:30.937 01:32.246 01:31.015 01:32.170 01:31.870 01:32.869 ---- 01:32.875 01:31.870 01:33.537 01:27.569 01:35.080 01:28.356 ---- 01:28.644 01:35.080 01:28.706 01:28.219 01:28.400 01:28.658 01:28.435 01:28.990 01:29.407 01:30.178 01:31.284 01:30.228 01:30.283 01:30.047 01:29.830 01:30.143 01:29.885 01:30.576 01:30.545 01:31.121 01:30.232 01:32.151 ---- 01:30.754 01:31.026 ----
