2015 Pre-season Testing

[notsofast]

Will we be able to tell the McLaren and the Force India apart this year? Both are silver/chrome looking cars with a red/orange stripe in pretty much the same place.

[RZS10]

Engine cover is different, should be no problem - and McLaren will supposedly change the livery anyways

[Overdriving]

David "Crofty" Croft has confirmed that the laptime set by Nico Rosberg on the soft tires was without DRS usage. So the saga continuous. I still think that Mercedes could do a 1:23.2 ( 2 seconds faster then last years poll) on medium set of tires with the usage of DRS.

Looks like it's false. Someone at the track saw Nico use DRS on his fast lap and posted the video on autosport's forum.

[erlik]

Will we be able to tell the McLaren and the Force India apart this year? Both are silver/chrome looking cars with a red/orange stripe in pretty much the same place.

... and they will probably battle each other for places

So, I think we will have great championship and battle for 2nd place in WCC.

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

Lorenzo De Luca @LorenzoDL83 ·

#Gazzetta " #Arrivabene & #Marchionne are expected today at Montmelò. #Ferrari today will do a full race sim & qualifying sim"

[NathanOlder]

David "Crofty" Croft has confirmed that the laptime set by Nico Rosberg on the soft tires was without DRS usage. So the saga continuous. I still think that Mercedes could do a 1:23.2 ( 2 seconds faster then last years poll) on medium set of tires with the usage of DRS.

Looks like it's false. Someone at the track saw Nico use DRS on his fast lap and posted the video on autosport's forum.

Id like to know how people can prove that they have a video of the fastest lap

[lio007]

Another long-ish stint for Button

Button's current lap times: 1:30.676, 1:30.903, 1:31.036, 1:31.041, 1:30.994, 1:31.086, 1:31.091, 1:31.427, 1:31.309, 1:31.433, 1:31.463, 1:31.892

btw I forgot to say, that's from Sky's live

Can you provide a link, where we can see all the laptimes for each driver?

[mikeerfol]

Another long-ish stint for Button

Button's current lap times: 1:30.676, 1:30.903, 1:31.036, 1:31.041, 1:30.994, 1:31.086, 1:31.091, 1:31.427, 1:31.309, 1:31.433, 1:31.463, 1:31.892

btw I forgot to say, that's from Sky's live

Can you provide a link, where we can see all the laptimes for each driver?

There's no such link I'm afraid...

[Thunder]

Anyone have an idea why McLaren almost never starts testing at 9? They are always at least half an hour late to the Party.

[CjC]

Anyone have an idea why McLaren almost never starts testing at 9? They are always at least half an hour late to the Party.

Historically mclaren never crack on with it on time. Even during the race weekends, for instance if one of the drivers misses a practice session, you'd expect them to be one of the first out on track the following session- nope not mclaren, they usually have the excuse of 'waiting for the track to rubber in'. It doesn't wash with me I'm afraid.

As for testing, mclaren needs miles as we all know, so why they aren't out straight away we can only presume the car isn't fit to take to the track.

In his case they might be fitting the race spec PU to the car??

What ever it is it frustrates the living hell out of me!

[mikeerfol]

They're out now

EDIT https://twitter.com/f1writers/status/571598148226957312

[f1316]

So Williams and Ferrari very similar on super softs but still 0.5s slower than Mercedes on softs yesterday.

Clutching at straws: is there some logic to ss actually wearing out too soon in these conditions? Perhaps softs are actually better.

[Mesteño]

This is just happening now in Mercedes motorhome.

[Cale24]

So Williams and Ferrari very similar on super softs but still 0.5s slower than Mercedes on softs yesterday.

Clutching at straws: is there some logic to ss actually wearing out too soon in these conditions? Perhaps softs are actually better.

Tell me about it Anyone know the estimated lap time difference between soft and supersoft? I'd estimate 0.5s a lap.

[Frafer]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-7aSyqXAAAffa_.jpg

This is just happening now in Mercedes motorhome.

I spot (right to left) Mattia binotto, james allison, maurizio arrivabene for ferrari toto wolf for mb and yasuhisa Arai for honda. I'd bet the other one are gonna be horner and some renault guys