Renault's depute technical managing director, Rob White, has explained what is the reason for Renault's lack of reliability, and the plans on how the company aim to resolve this in 3 weeks time to be ready for testing at Bahrain.
That's probably the best conclusion of the first day of testing. I've been cringin' all day long reading some of the nonsense here.beelsebob wrote:God, the people here can be dumb sometimes.
Had it occurred to you that several teams worth of hundreds of professional engineers disagree with you about whether lots of (or any) track running is the absolutely necessary on the first day of testing? Instead, they seem to consider that making sure that every component of the car works in an integrated fashion, and making sure that nothing goes seriously wrong is more important.Rikhart wrote:You know whats dumb? Dumb is wasting one of the 6 available test days before the first race without setting a time. Thats dumb. If you feel this is acceptable for this level, I completely disagree.beelsebob wrote:Right... All these teams of professional engineers are just "amateurish". Clearly you could do a much better job.Rikhart wrote:Today was a pretty amateurish show by most teams, only ferrari are exempt from that really. I cant help but think that F1 teams have become sloppy, accostumed to years of stable regulations. Suddenly there is a bigger change, and everybody loses their minds, one of the best teams cant make stuff fit, etc...
God, the people here can be dumb sometimes.
Same here, they still sound like F1 cars but with some extra sound effects thrown in, I'm definitely buying Melbourne GP tickets now!BoBee wrote:I love the engine sound, a real nostalgia from 70s,80s
Where did you came up with 6 test days? 4 days at Jerez + 2x4 days at Bahrain is actually double of what you said.Rikhart wrote:Dumb is wasting one of the 6 available test days before the first race without setting a time. Thats dumb. If you feel this is acceptable for this level, I completely disagree.
Well these ARE prototypes. It's not like they pull #47,500 off the assembly line for a random test. For most, if not all, of these cars, today will have been the first time this set of components have been completely assembled together. Didn't I read that Red Bull just completed their crash test last week?Rikhart wrote:Today was a pretty amateurish show by most teams, only ferrari are exempt from that really. I cant help but think that F1 teams have become sloppy, accostumed to years of stable regulations. Suddenly there is a bigger change, and everybody loses their minds, one of the best teams cant make stuff fit, etc...
I like the sound of Raikkonen's car under braking, is that the ERS kicking in? It does sound like an electro motor or something.PABLOEING wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmnFrJt05F0
The high pitched whistle you hear is the turbo spinning down. The noise is actually going on all the time that the turbo is spun up, it's just normally it's masked by the engine running.zeph wrote:I like the sound of Raikkonen's car under braking, is that the ERS kicking in? It does sound like an electro motor or something.PABLOEING wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmnFrJt05F0
apparently they have a 'winter compound'.Webber2011 wrote:Ok, really dumb question here and I haven't read the whole thread so sorry if it's been discussed.
Why are some of the cars running unmarked tyres ?
Is it an unknown compound simply for Pirelli to evaluate, and if so, why would the teams do that ?
That's true, but building the car properly is something you can demand from those "professional engineers", in the case of McLaren and Red Bullbeelsebob wrote: Had it occurred to you that several teams worth of hundreds of professional engineers disagree with you about whether lots of (or any) track running is the absolutely necessary on the first day of testing? Instead, they seem to consider that making sure that every component of the car works in an integrated fashion, and making sure that nothing goes seriously wrong is more important.
Rather anecdotal, but to be honest, it's not a surprise that the first failure (and actual loss of half a day), came from the team with the shortest turn around time between runs, and hence the least caution, and the least testing of parts and setup actually being correct.
