Pastor Maldonado recorded the fastest time on the penultimate testing day of the current 4-day session at Barcelona. The session was dominated by 4 red flags and was eventually cut short 3 minutes earlier than planned because Felipe Massa came to a halt in the pitlane.
Fair reasoningbeelsebob wrote:Last year's pole time was a 1:20.9, given that this is probably the highest aero circuit of the year, we might be looking at a second to a second and a half's penalty from last year... I'd say if someone gets into the 1:22s in testing then 1) it will have been a very light car 2) the car is probably pretty damn quick. I'd expect in reality, due to sand bagging a low 1:23 will be the fastest we'll see in testing.
what if someone goes below 1:20.9?beelsebob wrote:Last year's pole time was a 1:20.9, given that this is probably the highest aero circuit of the year, we might be looking at a second to a second and a half's penalty from last year... I'd say if someone gets into the 1:22s in testing then 1) it will have been a very light car 2) the car is probably pretty damn quick. I'd expect in reality, due to sand bagging a low 1:23 will be the fastest we'll see in testing.
Taking a lot of time working with the suspension setups my guess, other parts as wellbanibhusan wrote:May be they are trying new parts or changing the set-up? Or they are still waiting for the track to rubber up, in which we'll see them mostly in the afternoon only.
Then the car is utterly spectacular.CHT wrote:what if someone goes below 1:20.9?beelsebob wrote:Last year's pole time was a 1:20.9, given that this is probably the highest aero circuit of the year, we might be looking at a second to a second and a half's penalty from last year... I'd say if someone gets into the 1:22s in testing then 1) it will have been a very light car 2) the car is probably pretty damn quick. I'd expect in reality, due to sand bagging a low 1:23 will be the fastest we'll see in testing.
10:40 @InsideFerrari brings news of minor trouble: "A small issue is keeping Fernando in the garage for a while... Nothing major but it takes some time to fix........... whoopsMr Alcatraz wrote:Taking a lot of time working with the suspension setups my guess, other parts as wellbanibhusan wrote:May be they are trying new parts or changing the set-up? Or they are still waiting for the track to rubber up, in which we'll see them mostly in the afternoon only.
Ahh..Another small teething problem for the prancing horse so to say.Mr Alcatraz wrote: 10:40 @InsideFerrari brings news of minor trouble: "A small issue is keeping Fernando in the garage for a while... Nothing major but it takes some time to fix whoops
perhaps the teething problem is caused by the first quick lap alonso did with the F2012.banibhusan wrote:Ahh..Another small teething problem for the prancing horse so to say.Mr Alcatraz wrote: 10:40 @InsideFerrari brings news of minor trouble: "A small issue is keeping Fernando in the garage for a while... Nothing major but it takes some time to fix whoops
And already Hulkenberg at 1:23.440 , almost there . Sounds realy promissingMr Alcatraz wrote:Fair reasoningbeelsebob wrote:Last year's pole time was a 1:20.9, given that this is probably the highest aero circuit of the year, we might be looking at a second to a second and a half's penalty from last year... I'd say if someone gets into the 1:22s in testing then 1) it will have been a very light car 2) the car is probably pretty damn quick. I'd expect in reality, due to sand bagging a low 1:23 will be the fastest we'll see in testing.
