Team: Toto Wolff (Executive Director - Business), Paddy Lowe (Executive Director - Technical), Andy Cowell (Executive Director of Mercedes AMG Powertrains), Niki Lauda (Chairman), Bob Bell (TD), Aldo Costa (ED), Geoffrey Willis (Technology Director), Ron Meadows (SD), Andrew Shovlin (CRE), Simon Cole (CTE), Matthew Dane (CM)
Drivers: Nico Rosberg (6), Lewis Hamilton (44)
Team name: Mercedes AMG F1 Petronas
Simple... they changed it. The early reports of "zomg, it's taking 12 hours to change a PU" from the first days of testing were overblown for multiple reasons. 1) The engineers had never put the PU together in the car before, and had a long check list to make sure it all went correctly 2) Practice makes everything quicker 3) Probably many of the long wait times people highlighted with it were caused by teams bullshitting to justify not being able to run for the rest of the day.atanatizante wrote:Someone said that Lewis engine/PU issue in Melbourne was due to a loose connector and according to Sky they run it on FP1 to see if everything is working fine and fortunately it was ok ...
But they also said that this PU it`ll be used at a later date back in the championship and my silly question is how could they managed to change their PU with a new one in a space of 2 and a half hours?
Maybe I misheard Ted but I thought he said Mercedes would change from PU#1 to PU#2 during Friday evening, ready for Saturday morning>beelsebob wrote:Simple... they changed it. The early reports of "zomg, it's taking 12 hours to change a PU" from the first days of testing were overblown for multiple reasons. 1) The engineers had never put the PU together in the car before, and had a long check list to make sure it all went correctly 2) Practice makes everything quicker 3) Probably many of the long wait times people highlighted with it were caused by teams bullshitting to justify not being able to run for the rest of the day.atanatizante wrote:Someone said that Lewis engine/PU issue in Melbourne was due to a loose connector and according to Sky they run it on FP1 to see if everything is working fine and fortunately it was ok ...
But they also said that this PU it`ll be used at a later date back in the championship and my silly question is how could they managed to change their PU with a new one in a space of 2 and a half hours?
Yes, this is what happens at every race weekend. They will probably use the Melbourne race engine for the next few events' practice sessions then maybe bring it out again for the Monaco race or something. They use different engines for Friday to save them for the race.Gaz. wrote:Maybe I misheard Ted but I thought he said Mercedes would change from PU#1 to PU#2 during Friday evening, ready for Saturday morning>
They can't! cars are in parc fermé after exiting from the box in Q1, if I am right!LightningLewis wrote:Didn't Mercedes change engine cover between Q1 and Q2? From cannon to the closed one used in Melbourn?
Yes they did.LightningLewis wrote:Didn't Mercedes change engine cover between Q1 and Q2? From cannon to the closed one used in Melbourn?
Or they ran one with cannon and one without ?RicerDude wrote:Yes they did.LightningLewis wrote:Didn't Mercedes change engine cover between Q1 and Q2? From cannon to the closed one used in Melbourn?
Gaz. wrote:Maybe I misheard Ted but I thought he said Mercedes would change from PU#1 to PU#2 during Friday evening, ready for Saturday morning>beelsebob wrote:Simple... they changed it. The early reports of "zomg, it's taking 12 hours to change a PU" from the first days of testing were overblown for multiple reasons. 1) The engineers had never put the PU together in the car before, and had a long check list to make sure it all went correctly 2) Practice makes everything quicker 3) Probably many of the long wait times people highlighted with it were caused by teams bullshitting to justify not being able to run for the rest of the day.atanatizante wrote:Someone said that Lewis engine/PU issue in Melbourne was due to a loose connector and according to Sky they run it on FP1 to see if everything is working fine and fortunately it was ok ...
But they also said that this PU it`ll be used at a later date back in the championship and my silly question is how could they managed to change their PU with a new one in a space of 2 and a half hours?
