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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.
You failed to mention that he stated there was damage to the floor.Wass85 wrote:Hamilton not a happy bunny at all. He's stated the car wasn't feeling great at all and they had high tyre degradation. Backs up the claims earlier from someone watching trackside that the car didn't look planted. I'm slightly worried about this year.
One of the problems of this mess is that Honda must have ready the PU for tomorrow if I am not wrong. Because the validated PU will be the one for the first race. So taking into account that they are facing (yet) another engine change things don´t look very well.Andres125sx wrote: Can you please wait at least until we can see how the car perform?
This is testing, problems here are to be expected, and those problems mean we´ve not see the car performing yet
If tests are a mess, but once the season start the Melbourne spec PU have solved these problems and can perform, I´ll be happy, even if it does continue with reliability problems from time to time
Very frustrating day for him, I genuinely think they are struggling relative to Ferrari and Redbull. They certainly have the engine but from what I've seen of the footage they are third best in the chassis department.GPR-A wrote:Lewis on Sky:
Just 49 laps for Lewis Hamilton this morning for Mercedes and, speaking to the media in the lunchbreak, the Briton admitted the W08 hadn't been handling at its best:
"It wasn't feeling great today, but that's just with set-up and it's quite hot today as well so tyres degrading and things like that," he told Sky Sports News HQ.
"And we had some damage to the floor, but I didn't have any offs or anything like that, which is a good thing. I did see puffs of smoke from other people going off, but I managed to keep it on.
"Just a bit of an awkward balance today and I think the tempeartures are a bit higher today, so it's harder on the tyres. Perhaps not having the car really in the window, but also having damage to the floor meant there was good corners and not-so-good corners. So they're working on that to make sure Valtteri has a clean afternoon.
"I'm not particularly excited at the moment, just because it's the first day of week two and I didn't get a lot of running this morning, so I'm looking to the next couple of days."
So 0.2 and 0.4 behind the Ferrari and Red Bull with a damaged floor.GPR-A wrote:Lewis on Sky:
Just 49 laps for Lewis Hamilton this morning for Mercedes and, speaking to the media in the lunchbreak, the Briton admitted the W08 hadn't been handling at its best:
"It wasn't feeling great today, but that's just with set-up and it's quite hot today as well so tyres degrading and things like that," he told Sky Sports News HQ.
"And we had some damage to the floor, but I didn't have any offs or anything like that, which is a good thing. I did see puffs of smoke from other people going off, but I managed to keep it on.
"Just a bit of an awkward balance today and I think the tempeartures are a bit higher today, so it's harder on the tyres. Perhaps not having the car really in the window, but also having damage to the floor meant there was good corners and not-so-good corners. So they're working on that to make sure Valtteri has a clean afternoon.
"I'm not particularly excited at the moment, just because it's the first day of week two and I didn't get a lot of running this morning, so I'm looking to the next couple of days."
How did that happen then, he said he had no off's? Why didn't the team pick it up on their data?Restomaniac wrote:You failed to mention that he stated there was damage to the floor.Wass85 wrote:Hamilton not a happy bunny at all. He's stated the car wasn't feeling great at all and they had high tyre degradation. Backs up the claims earlier from someone watching trackside that the car didn't look planted. I'm slightly worried about this year.
Hmm.
With no idea how much time that cost if at all?Restomaniac wrote:So 0.2 and 0.4 behind the Ferrari and Red Bull with a damaged floor.GPR-A wrote:Lewis on Sky:
Just 49 laps for Lewis Hamilton this morning for Mercedes and, speaking to the media in the lunchbreak, the Briton admitted the W08 hadn't been handling at its best:
"It wasn't feeling great today, but that's just with set-up and it's quite hot today as well so tyres degrading and things like that," he told Sky Sports News HQ.
"And we had some damage to the floor, but I didn't have any offs or anything like that, which is a good thing. I did see puffs of smoke from other people going off, but I managed to keep it on.
"Just a bit of an awkward balance today and I think the tempeartures are a bit higher today, so it's harder on the tyres. Perhaps not having the car really in the window, but also having damage to the floor meant there was good corners and not-so-good corners. So they're working on that to make sure Valtteri has a clean afternoon.
"I'm not particularly excited at the moment, just because it's the first day of week two and I didn't get a lot of running this morning, so I'm looking to the next couple of days."
I don't know I wasn't in the car or the Merc garage.Wass85 wrote:How did that happen then, he said he had no off's? Why didn't the team pick it up on their data?Restomaniac wrote:You failed to mention that he stated there was damage to the floor.Wass85 wrote:Hamilton not a happy bunny at all. He's stated the car wasn't feeling great at all and they had high tyre degradation. Backs up the claims earlier from someone watching trackside that the car didn't look planted. I'm slightly worried about this year.
Hmm.
May be some manufacturing defect? OR some aerodynamic load is slightly out of calibration?Sevach wrote:That's curious indeed, the team was trialling a new floor that borrows from last years W floor today, why did it break with no off track excursions?
Running too low? Floor needs to be reinforced?
Damaged floors generally cost time.Wass85 wrote:With no idea how much time that cost if at all?Restomaniac wrote:So 0.2 and 0.4 behind the Ferrari and Red Bull with a damaged floor.GPR-A wrote:Lewis on Sky:
Just 49 laps for Lewis Hamilton this morning for Mercedes and, speaking to the media in the lunchbreak, the Briton admitted the W08 hadn't been handling at its best:
"It wasn't feeling great today, but that's just with set-up and it's quite hot today as well so tyres degrading and things like that," he told Sky Sports News HQ.
"And we had some damage to the floor, but I didn't have any offs or anything like that, which is a good thing. I did see puffs of smoke from other people going off, but I managed to keep it on.
"Just a bit of an awkward balance today and I think the tempeartures are a bit higher today, so it's harder on the tyres. Perhaps not having the car really in the window, but also having damage to the floor meant there was good corners and not-so-good corners. So they're working on that to make sure Valtteri has a clean afternoon.
"I'm not particularly excited at the moment, just because it's the first day of week two and I didn't get a lot of running this morning, so I'm looking to the next couple of days."