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The Formula One teams completed the second of 3 pre-season tests at Barcelona, with Friday the last of 4 day running on Circuit de Catalunya. Pirelli enjoyed seeing all compounds in action over the four days, but teams noticed high degradation on all tyres.
To my knowledge there's no limit on DRS usage like on a F1 weekend. Therefore I don't believe anyone knows when a team is using DRS as this is testing and they can do the whole lap with the DRS open if they want. So you can't make sweeping statements about comparative times.k.ko100v wrote:Last year in Q3 they used Softs, wich are this year medium. So we somehow can remove the tyres as a factor, for comparising the pace. But In Q3 the car is with min amount of fuel, today the car has fuel for min. 5 - 7 or maybe 10 laps. And (maybe the biggest difference) last year they use DRS on every straight, today only on the start-finish.andrewf1 wrote:given the fact that last year they did a 1:23:005 in low-fuel Q3 with softs (or was it supersofts?), this time on mediums in testing with an unknown fuel-load is an improvement.Dyanxx wrote:Rosberg just went quickest with a 1:22.616 lap =D>
I'm sure they did, I definitely read it somewhere.dren wrote:Didn't the teams all agree to only use it on the straight during testing?
It only tests we do not know what level of fuel was .. Yet the Lewis said that W04 did not have enough down force in comparison with the mp4-27wunderkind wrote:Looks like the W04 has good raw speed. If they are fast in Barcelona, they should be fastest everywhere. This is really looking good! The tyre degradation issue is not that worrisome, lets hope they will get on top of it soon.
Why would they want to cheat themselves with false times? More than anyone else, Merc themselves want to see where they belong this year and they certainly won't get this understanding, if they use DRS outside of regulations.Shakeman wrote:To my knowledge there's no limit on DRS usage like on a F1 weekend. Therefore I don't believe anyone knows when a team is using DRS as this is testing and they can do the whole lap with the DRS open if they want. So you can't make sweeping statements about comparative times.k.ko100v wrote:Last year in Q3 they used Softs, wich are this year medium. So we somehow can remove the tyres as a factor, for comparising the pace. But In Q3 the car is with min amount of fuel, today the car has fuel for min. 5 - 7 or maybe 10 laps. And (maybe the biggest difference) last year they use DRS on every straight, today only on the start-finish.andrewf1 wrote:
given the fact that last year they did a 1:23:005 in low-fuel Q3 with softs (or was it supersofts?), this time on mediums in testing with an unknown fuel-load is an improvement.
He did have the old front wing, I assume Jerez will have less grip than most F1 tracks and a lot of other parts have been changed since then.MacX wrote:It only tests we do not know what level of fuel was .. Yet the Lewis said that W04 did not have enough down force in comparison with the mp4-27wunderkind wrote:Looks like the W04 has good raw speed. If they are fast in Barcelona, they should be fastest everywhere. This is really looking good! The tyre degradation issue is not that worrisome, lets hope they will get on top of it soon.
I snagged this from somewhere else. It just shows the 7+ lap stints as Forza stated. The Lotus was very good on 4 lap stints, but it's hard to compare.korzeniow wrote:@dren You forgot about Lotus
