2014 Winter Testing - General

[Godius]

Chance McLaren will run without Vodafone sponsorship, some of the Magnussen videos he's wearing a pain McLaren shirt not a Vodafone branded one?

The sponsor deal ran out at the last race. Or the last day of November im not sure. So they could run without the Vodafone logos. The question is if they want to re-paint the whole car just for at test run. (Im saying this as i expect them to run their 2013 racer).

I hope that they will be sporting their lovely bright orange livery this winter testing season.

[Gridlock]

Yet again Red Bull gets to take 4 cars where everyone else gets 2...

So sick of Toro Rosso.

[Bredd]

Mclaren and force India not attending now.

[astracrazy]

Chance McLaren will run without Vodafone sponsorship, some of the Magnussen videos he's wearing a pain McLaren shirt not a Vodafone branded one?

The sponsor deal ran out at the last race. Or the last day of November im not sure. So they could run without the Vodafone logos. The question is if they want to re-paint the whole car just for at test run. (Im saying this as i expect them to run their 2013 racer).

I hope that they will be sporting their lovely bright orange livery this winter testing season.

they won't have to re paint any thing just remove the decals

not attending now anyway

[gray41]

Will they just take a single car and share the running or will teams have both cars at the track?

Its trivial but will they just run the cars without numbers for now?

Maybe Sky will have someone there to give a daily summary.

[mkable1370]

Mclaren and force India not attending now.

Where'd you hear that? The Headline article on F1Technical today says that they will be part of the six teams who are now signed up for the winter tests in just over a weeks time.

[SectorOne]

Mclaren and force India not attending now.

Where'd you hear that? The Headline article on F1Technical today says that they will be part of the six teams who are now signed up for the winter tests in just over a weeks time.

http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/12433 ... hrain-test

[kooleracer]

Are the regular drivers allowed to participate in this test? This was a big opportunity for Kevin Magnussen to get a lot of miles under his belt, a real pitty for him.

[astracrazy]

Will they just take a single car and share the running or will teams have both cars at the track?

i think only one car is allowed during testing, not sure about this though

Are the regular drivers allowed to participate in this test? This was a big opportunity for Kevin Magnussen to get a lot of miles under his belt, a real pitty for him.

It wouldn't matter if the can or not, Kevin isn't a regular driver yet. Looks like mclaren have shot themselves in the foot, i can't understand why they aren't taking part.

[SectorOne]

Lotus requests a one week delay of the first 2014 test at Jerez.
That´s not good.

[i70q7m7ghw]

Will they just take a single car and share the running or will teams have both cars at the track?

i think only one car is allowed during testing, not sure about this though

Are the regular drivers allowed to participate in this test? This was a big opportunity for Kevin Magnussen to get a lot of miles under his belt, a real pitty for him.

It wouldn't matter if the can or not, Kevin isn't a regular driver yet. Looks like mclaren have shot themselves in the foot, i can't understand why they aren't taking part.

They did a test in Italy last month. Force India are saying they aren't ready due to the short notice. It starting to sound like a lot of the teams aren't going to be ready for the test.

[zonk]

So sick of Toro Rosso.

So go to see Doctor.

[astracrazy]

Lotus requests a one week delay of the first 2014 test at Jerez.
That´s not good.

ouch

[Jonnycraig]

Lotus requests a one week delay of the first 2014 test at Jerez.
That´s not good.

No surprise, they turned down an offer to the Pirelli tyre test as they couldn't afford it..

http://www.suomif1.com/2013/12/uusi-ren ... yntymassa/

[Holm86]

Dec.11 (GMM) Lotus has requested that the first official test of the 2014 pre-season, at Jerez late in January, be postponed for a week.

That is the news of Speed Week correspondent Mathias Brunner, reporting that the financially-struggling Enstone based team asked for the postponement early this week at the F1 Commission meeting in Paris.

It was already known that, despite every team being invited to test next year's Pirelli tyres with 2013 cars next week in Bahrain, Lotus was not among those who took up the offer. And now, it emerges that the black and gold-liveried team is struggling to be ready for the start of official 2014 testing, when the turbo V6 engines are set to run for the very first time.

Brunner quoted an unnamed team boss as saying: "Everyone knew the date for Jerez, and everyone made their plans accordingly.

"If someone is not ready, that is not anyone else's problem."

Speed Week said another team figure rated the chance of a postponement at Lotus' request at just 30 per cent.

Meanwhile, although the FIA said this week that Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari, Toro Rosso, Force India and McLaren will all test Pirelli's 2014 tyres next week, it emerges that the latter two teams will in fact not be in Bahrain.

A McLaren spokesperson confirmed that news.

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