2015 Pre-season Testing

[JimClarkFan]

How much running did Mclaren get in before the fuel problems?

I seen a picture with some flow vis - suggests they had some good running before the fuel pump issue.

[Blanchimont]

From http://ticker.auto-motor-und-sport.de/

"16:05 Zwei pinke Sektoren, aber ein schlechter Schlussabschnitt kostet Räikkönen eine Zeitenverbesserung."

Translation: Two purple sectors, but a slow third sector didn't allow Raikonnen to improve his [1:20,841]time.

[WaikeCU]

How much running did Mclaren get in before the fuel problems?

I seen a picture with some flow vis - suggests they had some good running before the fuel pump issue.

Counter is currently on 35 laps for Button.

EDIT: Looks like fuel pump issue can't be fixed in time. Button calls it a day.

[Overdriving]

Meh. Raikkonen's time on softs is practically the same as Vettel's time on mediums.

[JimClarkFan]

How much running did Mclaren get in before the fuel problems?

I seen a picture with some flow vis - suggests they had some good running before the fuel pump issue.

Counter is currently on 35 laps for Button.

EDIT: Looks like fuel pump issue can't be fixed in time. Button calls it a day.

That isn't bad running for a brand new engine.

Overall I think Mclaren Honda did well.

No major problems, but they need to get those smaller issues sorted

[Chene_Mostert]

Anyhooo, Kimi just hit the 100 lap mark!

[Vasconia]

That isn't bad running for a brand new engine.

Overall I think Mclaren Honda did well.

No major problems, but they need to get those smaller issues sorted

Small ones which costed too much time. Anyway 78 laps is not a disaster though its quite a poor mark.

[CBeck113]

Not sure how anyone spins McLearn/Honda testing as a positive! Bottom line is that it was the worst out of all the teams present. The fact they had the mercedes engine in their car for all of 2014 and could have studied the layout and design was a huge advantage. No excuses girls that was a pathetic showing in jerez. Perhaps what they should have done is borrowed mercedes technical documents as they have ferraris in the past and built their car that way. =D>

This is a TEST - not a show. The teams have individual goals they attempt to achieve, completely different test programs and strategies they rum, and it is in their hands to judge if the test was successful or not. The best thing that can happen during testing is that design errors show themselves, so they can be eliminated before the season begins - that is effective testing. This can only backfire if there are too many errors in the design - but they have three tests to insure that everything is ok.

So people: stop crying that team a sucks because they aren't completing enough laps, or that team b is pushing and team c isn't - they are all running their programs and only they know how successful they were. It's fun to guess and compare, but that is all we can do.

[Phil]

So, these are the laps for day 4 of the pre-season test in Jerez:

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1   Kimi Raikkonen	 Ferrari	  1m20.841s           106 laps
2   Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	   1m22.019s  +1.178   112 laps
3   Lewis Hamilton	 Mercedes	 1m22.172s  +1.331   115 laps
4   Max Verstappen	 Toro Rosso  1m22.553s  +1.712    97 laps
5   Felipe Massa   	Williams	 1m23.116s  +2.275    73 laps
6   Romain Grosjean	Lotus	    1m23.802s  +2.961    53 laps
7   Daniil Kvyat  	 Red Bull	 1m23.975s  +3.134    62 laps
8   Jenson Button 	 McLaren	  1m27.660s  +6.819    35 laps

[poolboy67]

STR already confirmed they've got a launch spec car with a nose that was just made to pass crash tests, so they could have A nose for the jerez tests.

ferrari are going to bring a new nose for melbourne, that we know. the current nose must've been made just like STR nose was, just to pass crash tests.

i bet they're going for a short as possible and high as possible nose like lotus and merc have. maybe not as short as them.

[Jonnycraig]

Ferrari using Flo-Vis on the FW neutral section, pylons, suspension back to sidepod inlets today.

http://formula1.com/wi/enlarge/sutton/2 ... 3fe136.jpg

You don't do that if you are not interested in nose tip/nose cone modifications.

I'm sure that soon we'll see some changes.

It was rumoured a few days ago that McLaren, Ferrari & RB will have different noses for the next test.

[PlatinumZealot]

Can someone do the engine mileage totals? I think Ferrari are giving merc serious competition in the data stakes.

[Dixo]

Just a thought for those who constantly mention how little McLaren Honda have ran etc, Red Bull only ran 21 lap's in the whole jerez test last season and to my knowledge McLaren have ran over 70 Lap's so far!

Yes, but RBR was not the only team with Renault engine. There were two other teams (STR and Caterham) and they all together did 668km (Btw. Ferrari 1966km and Merc 3874km)! Honda did only 349km... From this point of view it's not so optimistic, right?

[Moose]

Can someone do the engine mileage totals? I think Ferrari are giving merc serious competition in the data stakes.

Day 1:
Merc: 230
Renault: 81
Ferrari: 133
Honda: 6

Day 2:
Merc: 193
Renault: 91
Ferrari: 177
Honda: 6

Day 3:
Merc: 318
Renault: 184
Ferrari: 200
Honda: 32

Day 4:
Merc: 243
Renault: 161
Ferrari: 218
Honda: 35

Total:
Merc: 984 laps (4,408 km)
Renault: 517 laps (2,316 km)
Ferrari: 728 laps (3,261 km)
Honda: 79 laps (354km)

[dans79]

by team

Merc       516     
Sauber     382
Toro Rosso 353
Ferrari    349
Williams   278 
RBR        166 
Lotus      149  
McLaren     79