Force India VJM11

[NAPI10]

Looking at ‘No of Laps (second to lowest) & Timing (which is not that critical at this stage but still…);
is FI struggling with this package?

Here you go -
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/13469 ... now--perez

[BloodLad91]

The shape of sidepod cooling inlet and mirror mounting is same as RB13 except RB13 is more tighter around sidepod area, hopefully team will introduce tighter sidepod package.

[Morteza]

Via AMuS

[IamLegend]

Looking at ‘No of Laps (second to lowest) & Timing (which is not that critical at this stage but still…);
is FI struggling with this package?

Here you go -
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/13469 ... now--perez

Struggle is a definition tied around a certain Orange colored car and it's team.


The Pink Panther is just laying low and doing it's job. No issues, no breakdowns, just testing and in awful track conditions I might add, so they're just gathering data. Let's wait for Melbourne to see what the new upgrades are and hope the wind-tunnel correlation issue doesn't rear it's ugly head again.

[Manjhi]

Looking at ‘No of Laps (second to lowest) & Timing (which is not that critical at this stage but still…);
is FI struggling with this package?

The car incorporates many features from last year, but it is still looking more complete and refined.

Plus Ocon cracked 1:19.067 sec on "soft tyres", though the lap was not counted bcoz he cut the chicane, but even after that he would have gained at max 0.2-0.3 sec, now looking at that time and the time set by the top three during the same period he topped the time sheet.

So Ocon did touched ~1:19.3 sec(0.2-0.3 added) while Lewis also cut the chicane and did 1:18.3 sec on "Unmarked Pirelli", so even if he was on medium then SFI is at max 1.5-1.6 sec slower than Mercedes, which looks good compared to 2017 season.

Here is something confusing for all of us, Ric & Ham were only clocking 1:18.0 to 1:18.4 sec with Ultra soft tyres on. Only 1.2-1.3 sec faster than Ocon on soft compound.

All in all, it is just testing lets just wait for Australian GP to start.

[PhillipM]

It's not confusing at all, it's testing. About the only decent indicator we get of pace is long runs when you know they have plenty of fuel on board, shy of a team putting in a blistering lap that's 2 seconds faster than anyone expects.

This stuff belongs in the testing thread anyway, it's nothing to do with the tech on the car.

[NAPI10]

Ocon is quite optimistic ; exact opposite view from Perez -

http://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/22678 ... e-red-bull

[Ashwinv16]

If you look at Ocon's Instagram they were also the fastest in the speed trap by a huge margin so clearly suggesting a different set-up

[Morteza]

Via AMuS

[ScrewCaptain27]

Via AMuS

[Sushant008]

High rake on VJM11
(via racefans dot net)

[Sevach]

VJM10 Abu Dhabi vs VJM11 test spec.

[Sidhartha.techie]

VJM10 Abu Dhabi vs VJM11 test spec.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYq1LaAXcAA-_Fa.jpg

That's pretty much the same Car from this angle

[IamLegend]

VJM10 Abu Dhabi vs VJM11 test spec.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYq1LaAXcAA-_Fa.jpg

That's pretty much the same Car from this angle

It's a picture of the side profile detail before the new aero bits that'll arrive in Melbourne, so pretty much the same as the VJM10 except a few changes to the sidepods.

[ScrewCaptain27]

Impressive shot by @AlbertFabrega: