2018 pre-season testing thread

[gandharva]

Lunch

[Morteza]

That McLaren does look amazing on track.

I hope they found the Hub issue and get some decent laps in.

Also, any issues with Sirotkins's car? No times yet?

Sirotkin will do the afternoon session. It was Stroll for morning

[cliffgamerz]

But so far Renault powered engines have total of 141 laps, Mercedes 126 & ferrari 132

[ivanlesk]

And that is with McLaren doing only 10.

[TwanV]

72 laps and the second highest top speed... looks quite promising for Honda.

[Oscar2603]

Enstone Renault showing good mileage, with the supposed mileage they've done PU wise before this week, I'd like to think it's possible for them to be fighting Red Bull a bit more

[Juzh]

Lunch

http://abload.de/img/lunchm7ufu.jpg

Max speeds (start/finish line) were entered once and then not updated for most of the session. I'd wait for amus to post a photo of timing screens or something simmilar, which they usually do.

[tinvek]

being generous i suppose the logic of force india was that they have to give him some seat time, he won't be fast so why not put him in the car when it's most likely to fail and just tell him to trundle around putting laps on everything, they just weren't expecting him to be unable to drive at that pace without going off.

of course it may be this year's car is a dog and he's actually going to be the greatest driver in the history of F1

[iotar__]

- Are McLaren blaming Honda for wheelnut failure ?

- Bizzarre mid-day line up changes at Williams.
- Also why would bad with tyres and slow Kubica be driving at all? Work on set up? Flawed (see above) and for other drivers that are not capable of it? Hire whoever you want but don't follow it with weird damage limitation campaign.

[1158]

Max speeds (start/finish line) were entered once and then not updated for most of the session. I'd wait for amus to post a photo of timing screens or something simmilar, which they usually do.

They were updating. I saw RAI, RIC, HAR, and STR update several times

[godlameroso]

https://twitter.com/LiveGPit/status/968 ... twterm%5E0
https://twitter.com/SamarthKanal/status ... twterm%5E0

So that's what they look like.

[HPD]

[media]https://twitter.com/ScarbsTech/status/9 ... 9558132737[/media]

[jesa7271]

does anyone have subscription ?

GARY ANDERSON has been examining the new Toro Rosso this morning, and he reckons the small team has scored a few important early tech win in the first months of working with Honda:




Toro Rosso-Honda's crucial early win - F1 - Autosport Plus
Autosport.comMarrying a new engine to a chassis isn't the work of a moment - and when your new engine is the latest from Honda's troubled Formula 1 programme, you cannot afford significant compromises

[GoranF1]

[media]https://twitter.com/EliGP/status/968105544803405824[/media]

[zzed_41]

Renault with 143 laps, 47.6 laps per team. Average 66.5 if we don't take McLaren into account because of their wheel failure.

Ferrari with 132 laps, 44 laps per team.

Mercedes with 126 laps, 42 per team.

Honda with 72, from a single team.

Doesn't say a lot when PU's need to last 462 racing (Catalunya) laps plus prac and quali but at least there's no one really dropping the ball right now