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.
Yes, this is what they were doing.Anthropolyte wrote:I'm thinking that Mercedes and Ferrari were just aiming for consistent times this morning, as someone else suspected... Ferrari were on medium tyres all morning, with Mercedes running softs, and very similar times for both across the board. I wonder if we'll see some changes from both this afternoon.
Yes it is possible. And perhaps our use of the word cruising is different. But they are still in F1 terms, significantly slower than they will be in a week or two. Also, I think that it was suggested they might be 20-30km slower than potential, having accepted that top speeds might be slower this year, not 50-60.Juzh wrote:Yes, yes, yes, they don't push, as if we didn't hear that a million times by now. But they're also not coasting 50-60 kmh slower either. It's 2 extremes, none of which I'm believing at the moment. This speed trap is either bogus and can only be used to compare cars that are testing right now, or the only other possible alternative - it's at the start/finish line.mwillems wrote: Teams rarely push their cars on the first test, let alone the first day. The cars are faster onto the straights and in theory will have more horespower. There will be more drag than last year, but potentially it will be more efficient drag too. Why is it "ludicrous" to think that they might not be anywhere near top speed?
If it is "ludicrous" to think the cars are cruising, then the five seconds that we were promised (and the teams think they will deliver) seem to have vanished into thin air.
My guess is that they took the PU out, identified the problem, realised it would take about three hours to fix, and put a fully built known-working PU in whilst the problem is fixed on the other one.GrayGreat wrote:Following McLaren's earlier tweet that Alonso would be back out this afternoon following an oil systems issue, Honda has chosen to change his engine to save time while continuing to investigate the problem.
Why couldn't they do this earlier? I mean why have they decided to do this now? Does not seem like a terminal issue with the engine but a faulty oil pump only.
Good to know that this is not an inherent issue that could effect multiple engines.Anthropolyte wrote:My guess is that they took the PU out, identified the problem, realised it would take about three hours to fix, and put a fully built known-working PU in whilst the problem is fixed on the other one.GrayGreat wrote:Following McLaren's earlier tweet that Alonso would be back out this afternoon following an oil systems issue, Honda has chosen to change his engine to save time while continuing to investigate the problem.
Why couldn't they do this earlier? I mean why have they decided to do this now? Does not seem like a terminal issue with the engine but a faulty oil pump only.
Wellllll... it still could be. I really hope not though.GrayGreat wrote:Good to know that this is not an inherent issue that could effect multiple engines.Anthropolyte wrote:My guess is that they took the PU out, identified the problem, realised it would take about three hours to fix, and put a fully built known-working PU in whilst the problem is fixed on the other one.GrayGreat wrote:Following McLaren's earlier tweet that Alonso would be back out this afternoon following an oil systems issue, Honda has chosen to change his engine to save time while continuing to investigate the problem.
Why couldn't they do this earlier? I mean why have they decided to do this now? Does not seem like a terminal issue with the engine but a faulty oil pump only.
More information gathered from the investigation might have discovered if the issue was one which might cause further issues in the engine. If they immediately put in the second engine which subsequently became faulty, might they then have broken all available engines? Getting a third engine might not have been possible for a few days. Assuming they have two engines today and not more. Is that stated anywhere? Do we know how many they have?Anthropolyte wrote:My guess is that they took the PU out, identified the problem, realised it would take about three hours to fix, and put a fully built known-working PU in whilst the problem is fixed on the other one.GrayGreat wrote:Following McLaren's earlier tweet that Alonso would be back out this afternoon following an oil systems issue, Honda has chosen to change his engine to save time while continuing to investigate the problem.
Why couldn't they do this earlier? I mean why have they decided to do this now? Does not seem like a terminal issue with the engine but a faulty oil pump only.
Nothing, it was just an example of what could possibly be wrong. It could be something else entirely, but the point was that there's no way of telling at the moment whether it's a fault affecting all PUs.godlameroso wrote:What makes you say it's a oil pump that's causing the issue?
