2017 F1 general testing thread

[Sevach]

Massa doing a longish run of low 23s with a 22.9 as the best lap.

[Vasconia]

Almost everybody with soft tyres with the exception of Kyviat(medium). Vettel is making some laps with an unmarked tyre.

16 laps for Vandoorme, good.

Mercedes with "only" 8 laps so far, not the usual stuff for them.

[max_speed]

Vandoorne, on what looked like softs, has just improved to a 1m22.698s. We'll verify that when he flashes past next time. Crept up on us the McLaren, didn't see it coming (even though it's bright orange) ---- makes me bit hopeful

[Anthropolyte]

Vandoorne, on what looked like softs, has just improved to a 1m22.698s. We'll verify that when he flashes past next time. Crept up on us the McLaren, didn't see it coming (even though it's bright orange) ---- makes me bit hopeful

Cautious optimism creeping in here too.

[kasio]

Vandoorne 276.2 top speed for mclaren so far!

[BosF1]

Vandoorne 276.2 top speed for mclaren so far!

Where can you find that?

[Clausell]

[kasio]

Vandoorne 276.2 top speed for mclaren so far!

Where can you find that?

best live text translation IMHO.

http://www.f1today.net/en/live/f1/22302 ... st-of-2017

[BosF1]

Vandoorne 276.2 top speed for mclaren so far!

Where can you find that?

best live text translation IMHO.

http://www.f1today.net/en/live/f1/22302 ... st-of-2017

Thanks!

[BosF1]

Autosport:

Here's the Renault with the Human Energy Recovery System deployed.

[Restomaniac]

Williams 1m21.8-soft
Mercedes 1m22.0-soft

Mercedes have to be sandbagging surely.

[BosF1]

Williams 1m21.8-soft
Mercedes 1m22.0-soft

Mercedes have to be sandbagging surely.

It is called testing, of course they are not flat out. Bottas already went into the 1:19's last week.

[Restomaniac]

Williams 1m21.8-soft
Mercedes 1m22.0-soft

Mercedes have to be sandbagging surely.

It is called testing, of course they are not flat out. Bottas already went into the 1:19's last week.

Why are you rolling your eyes?

We had this very conversation last week about who was and wasn't flat out. I'm just adding to that conversation.

Also you cant compare last week to this as the enviroment maybe very different.

[Thunder]

Lap Count for now:
Massa (30)
Vettel (30)
Vandoorne (26)
Ocon (21)
Kvyat (20)
Hamilton (17)
Magnussen (16)
Palmer (15)
Ricciardo (15)
Wehrlein (11)

[Restomaniac]

Lap Count for now:
Massa (30)
Vettel (30)
Vandoorne (26)
Ocon (21)
Kvyat (20)
Hamilton (17)
Magnussen (16)
Palmer (15)
Ricciardo (15)
Wehrlein (11)

Laps for everyone.
That's an improvement on last week.