Mercedes GP 2011

[marcush.]

oops..not bad for a bunch of amateurs at sea.

[mtec80]

Where is Segedunum???No comment to this?

[Yups]

Amazing time, hope it was a legal lap. Was it on soft or super soft tyres?

[bot6]

They're just the cameras for the TV

They are indeed, but their positioning just in front of the suspension is interesting...

[bot6]

What a time!

1 Schumacher Mercedes 1m21.268s

Let's not be too overoptimistic here... The track has rubbered in quite a lot since yesterday.

The positive point is that I doubt this was set on the supersofts as these tires won't be there for the first few GPs.

[ali.unal]

What a time!

1 Schumacher Mercedes 1m21.268s

Let's not be too overoptimistic here... The track has rubbered in quite a lot since yesterday.

The positive point is that I doubt this was set on the supersofts as these tires won't be there for the first few GPs.

With Pirelli, there is no rubber-in process as blutant as with Bridgestone. Rubber is marbled all over the place out the racing line. So, Michael's time is nothing but encouraging.

[FrukostScones]

I am quite relieved by seeing this time from Mgp, but it is a bit sad that nowadays all you need is a flexi-wing to boost your laptime.

The shocking part of this time is, that if MercedesGP can run 1.21,2 than Red Bull can run 1.20,2

[ForMuLaOne]

Imo this Car is still about to change...but I like what i see. Would have been a miracle if Mercedes was unable to build a good car.

[bot6]

you uncoil like a spring....?

I highly doubt they could have carbon fibre that flexible over sucha short distance.

All the flex wings bend along their span to allow the wing end plates to close the gap to the road increasing the ground effect

Actually the RB one also bends along the length of the car. The front of the wing goes down, the back goes up.

[i70q7m7ghw]

I think these pylons are designed to flex the wing back...

[i70q7m7ghw]

This must be how Red Bull pass the deflection test, the wing flexes when pushed from the front, the test is done by pushing from above...

[bot6]

This must be how Red Bull pass the deflection test, the wing flexes when pushed from the front, the test is done by pushing from above...

I think it's one of the ways, although it does flex transversely too.

[FrukostScones]

About the tires: I read somewhere, that Pirelli is bring only the soft and hard tire compound to this test, due to the choice of the first few races.

I read that Perez posted his 1.21,7 on supersofts yesterday (he did a 1.22,1 with softs). So supersofts are available I guess.

[ali.unal]

About the tires: I read somewhere, that Pirelli is bring only the soft and hard tire compound to this test, due to the choice of the first few races.

No Adamski all tyers are available for the test. See the statements from yesterday:

James Key said:
"He [Perez] did a good and controlled set of laps, setting a time of 1:22.042 minutes on soft tyres and 1:21.761 on the super soft compound."

And from Renault:
"For the afternoon with Nick, we concentrated on set-up work and ran the medium and soft tyres."

[Nuclear]

AMuS:

Schumacher did his best lap with the old FW and "Soft" tires