In your face Gary Anderson.
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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.
Which makes perfect sense in the limited time of testingWass85 wrote:I think Mercedes are putting a new twist on sandbagging if they are, instead of running with high fuel loads or in a low power setting they setup up the car so it's bad at handling....
Definitely private. Remember, this is actually not an official fia sanctioned event. That's why we don't see any bodyparts outside the garage and neither is there a ban on these fences in front of the box they use to keep prying eyes away.Restomaniac wrote:Something I always wondered was about team radio during testing.
Is it open like on race days or is it private?
If we must believe what McLaren says...
Come on, that's pretty much impossible: both scrapping plans and new structure, reasons:Santozini wrote:Chanman141 wrote:I wonder if the current form of the Ferrari is due to James Allison, and whether they can maintain what looks to be a very good chassis. How many tyres are they allowed to use during testing?
I've heard that what was left of James Allison's plans was scrapped. This car should be 100% developed by the new structure
) making decisions would be scrapping the work they had done themselves since it's hard to imagine engine guy (new TD) judging aero, packaging or suspension designs, anyway technical directors are not exactly mad scientists drawing designs on napkins and once they are gone all the ideas are scrapped, they weren't their ideas to begin with
and hopefully with the same great results.
Exactly, Mercedes won't be running anything close to full power but the cars handling looks nowhere near as planted as the Ferrari. This is coming from a Hamilton fan here, I think we are going to be in for a surprise come Melbourne.BosF1 wrote:Which makes perfect sense in the limited time of testingWass85 wrote:I think Mercedes are putting a new twist on sandbagging if they are, instead of running with high fuel loads or in a low power setting they setup up the car so it's bad at handling....
He basically says that the car might've been nervous but this bill also falls on Honda's tab.
+1!Henk wrote:Can we please make this guy the new sound engineer at FOM?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKObNmhKjNI
Well... They are orange and they are claiming the reporters are spewing "fake news". Makes me rather skeptical