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Team: Bob Bell (TD), Aldo Costa (ED), Geoff Willis (Technology Director), Andrew Shovlin (CRE), Simon Cole (CTE), Ron Meadows (SD), Matthew Deane (CM), Ross Brawn (TP), Nick Fry (CEO), Toto Wolff (Exec Director), Andy Cowell (MD of powertrain),
Drivers: Nico Rosberg (9), Lewis Hamilton (10)
Team name: Mercedes AMG Petronas
You're a bit off, Mercedes did 5225km, and Sauber did slightly more, 5305kmAMG.Tzan wrote:To sum up testing the car looks good! It has the most Kms than any other car!(well i did my calculations of course...5.169 kms!)..so reliability wise it is promising i think! But it looks a bit worrying that there were no aerodynamic updates! They really need them!
Hah maybe...but considering they lost 2 days at Jerez it's really good job!JackHammer wrote:You're a bit off, Mercedes did 5225km, and Sauber did slightly more, 5305kmAMG.Tzan wrote:To sum up testing the car looks good! It has the most Kms than any other car!(well i did my calculations of course...5.169 kms!)..so reliability wise it is promising i think! But it looks a bit worrying that there were no aerodynamic updates! They really need them!
Its also really cool to be having brake cooling issues atm.dans79 wrote:It was a brake line, I read that from like 4 or 5 different sources.Owen.C93 wrote:I was under the impression the Hamilton failure was caused by a broken brake line probably caused by the fire in that area the day before. Do you have a source on that?mep wrote:That duct just fits into the picture that they have some problems with brake cooling. Which has caused the the accident of Hamilton as well as the Schumacher crash in Singapore.
Downforce, downforce, and more downforce!!!!Mika1 wrote:Sauber-engineer Willem Toet calculated: Mercedes AMG is two seconds faster than last year. Aldo Costa: Yes, but we need to find more downforce. =D>
To be honest, I expected more updates during the last two days of F1 testing. I hope they will bring more to Melbourne. Lewis Hamilton said that they will have a new package before Malaysia.Shakeman wrote:There's always a lot of chat about teams bringing upgrades to Melbourne, are they upgrades or just Melbourne specific components?
I think Mercedes will bring out the rear-wing louvred endplates once them have sorted its downforce balance out. They must be the only top team not running them.Shakeman wrote:There's always a lot of chat about teams bringing upgrades to Melbourne, are they upgrades or just Melbourne specific components?
Wow, you can tell that the aerodynamics are poor from a few pictures on the internet? You should apply to be Newey's right hand man!Adamski wrote:Hard to believe how they want to progress with the poor aerodynamic they have.
Hola, so you think if there are new gizmo bits, thats when the car is good? You don't need lot of funny stuff bolted to make a quick car. If you get the fundamentals right, which I guess is the case with W04 (i am not saying this is championship winning car), then you can have a competitive car. You have to look at the staff who have designed this car and you will understand the difference to the Predecessor. It seems to have only inherited the looks. You should have followed the development NEWS to understand the difference.Adamski wrote:For me it's really interesting that all the top teams from last year running with at least some new bits on their cars at the last days of testing, probably running the Melbourne spec car. On Mercedes it was impossible to find any upgrade on the car since Barcelona two weeks ago or even more.
Hard to believe how they want to progress with the poor aerodynamic they have.