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More teams have hit trouble in the final day of pre-season testing at Barcelona. At a moment when one would expect reliability issues to be nearly ironed out, the lack of running for some teams was surprising.
It will be interesting to see what Bottas can do with soft tires, considering his best lap was done on mediums and he is running a low DF wing compared to Vettel.
True, but my impresion was that his fastest lap was after longer stint, so I don't beleve it was loaded with so much fuel. But who knows..
Sainz thinks it's more like 1.5-2s. Alonso said something similar I believe.
“I think if you get the tyres working on the new Tarmac at Barcelona it’s around two seconds faster,” said Sainz. “Also what I heard from other categories, friends that live in Barcelona and come to run with different categories, they’ve all been on a normal day one and a half seconds faster, two seconds sometimes.”
Sainz only ran in the afternoon during today’s test by which time the temperatures had dropped and the surface had cooled. However he expects the track will be much quicker in normal conditions.
“If you get your tyres working, which today I didn’t manage but looks like people in the morning when the sun was out they managed to do, the track is going to be seriously quick this year. It’s going to be a completely different track, completely different balance, completely different [degradation] to what we were used to in Barcelona one year ago.”
The changes go beyond resurfacing at some parts of the track, Sainz explained.
“There’s slight difference in cambers. In grip, obviously. In kerbs there’s a bit of a difference also. It’s not exactly the same track as it was last year.”
Robert's stint (on soft tires):
Even more so if the fact they have no one over 25 is the reason the Martini deal died.
where did you get the info it was Williams from? this morning Clare was saying the team would be happy to cancel filming day if asked... but no one had askedJust_a_fan wrote: ↑27 Feb 2018, 16:48It was Williams. There was a suggestion that testing should go to Friday because of the weather. Williams have a filming day booked so said "no". Change needs unanimous agreement so it's not happening.
