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On the back of his first pole position last weekend, Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas topped the second day of in-season testing at Sakhir. The Finn ejoyed a trouble-free day and completed a massive 143 laps.
Better to have something like this happen on day one of testing, than near the tail end.Thunders wrote:Hmm that's not good.
Probably will take a few hours, spokeswoman of Honda said it is in a difficult access location, so they'll need a few hours of tinkeringtaperoo2k wrote:Better to have something like this happen on day one of testing, than near the tail end.Thunders wrote:Hmm that's not good.
Find the problem, work out a fix, carry on testing. I think given Honda has a new PU concept,
niggles with various systems are to be expected. Hopefully they'll be out on track again today.
Oil System could mean any number of things, perhaps it'll be something fairly simple and
easy to fix.
I know, I expect if they fix the problem they'll be back out before the end of the test session. I would assume they have to take everything apart to get to the oil system, then put it all back together again and hope nothing else breaks in the process.noxroxafox wrote:Probably will take a few hours, spokeswoman of Honda said it is in a difficult access location, so they'll need a few hours of tinkeringtaperoo2k wrote:Better to have something like this happen on day one of testing, than near the tail end.Thunders wrote:Hmm that's not good.
Find the problem, work out a fix, carry on testing. I think given Honda has a new PU concept,
niggles with various systems are to be expected. Hopefully they'll be out on track again today.
Oil System could mean any number of things, perhaps it'll be something fairly simple and
easy to fix.
In addition to the bull not running....it's missing a tail!noxroxafox wrote:http://img.f1today.eu/x/full/photos/58b ... 21dae5.jpg
I agree, although, maybe they'll have the engine out in 1 hour, but they still need to resolve the Oil-system issue.. .so maybe its expected to take 2 hours to fix the oil issue and then put the engine back in..FW17 wrote:One would have expected being on the 4th year of an engine formula that they would have engineered the car to be taken apart and put back together faster than 4-5 hrs
Why? They found the issue at 10a.m. Given let's say 6 hours max. to fix the problem, they'll be good to go at 4p.m. which gives them another 2 hours of running. Let's just hope they can fix it.noxroxafox wrote:They say that the problems at McLaren-Honda are in the area of the front of the drive-train, so they have to take the engine out to resolve the issue.. They expect it will take 4 to 5 hours before they can resume testing today. So the chances Alonso will take the MCL32 for a run today seem very slim