Robert Kubica is leaving winter testing downbeat, having seen his schedule on Friday being cut short by excessive wear on car parts for which the team did not have spares.
Surprised they didn’t give Ocon a run out.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 23:14Hamilton is quite open about his distaste for testing. But, like all of the others that would rather be doing other stuff, he turns up and does his bit. I doubt there's a front line F1 driver that likes testing.
Would have made Bottas very uncomfortable, for sure.f1jcw wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 00:20Surprised they didn’t give Ocon a run out.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 23:14Hamilton is quite open about his distaste for testing. But, like all of the others that would rather be doing other stuff, he turns up and does his bit. I doubt there's a front line F1 driver that likes testing.
Hamilton's pre-season 15 seconds ahead of FerrariNathanOlder wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 22:20I recall earlier in the week, one of the teams or media, came up with Ferrari's race pace was 5 seconds quicker than Bottas' race pace. But as I said at the time, Bottas is usually 20 seconds behind Lewis, so that sky prediction should say Hamilton 15 seconds ahead of Ferrarinevill3 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 22:07Sky sports summary of testing they said they crunched some data regarding the long runs/race sims for Ferrari and Mercedes and Ferrari were about 5 seconds quicker over a full race distance. That says to me that both teams were either evenly matched or running to lap deltas or both. Lets hope they are evenly matched and it will be similar to last year where each teams shines on different weekends/circuits and we have a season long fight between at least four drivers in the two teams. If Red Bull and the others can get involved to take the odd win maybe reliability will decide the championship this year just like 2016.
Here's hoping for a spectaular season that keeps us all on the edge of our seats. All I have taken from this winters testing is that no one has found a silver bullet and the status quo remains. Red Bull's experiment with new engines looks to not have backfired and we have not lost any teams in the off season. All is well in my F1 world
Nathan said that Racing Point's miles were not listed.
With their own photographers they don't have to wait for other photographers to cull, edit, and upload their photos to the internet.
The underfloor of a Formula 1 car is arguably one of the most critical pieces of the entire car in terms of aerodynamic performance.LM10 wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 03:49Why is it so important for teams to especially cover the underside of the car when it's being put on flatbeds? Besides the FW part, there isn't that much to be seen anyway, am I wrong? There are multiple shots of the rear and the diffuser going around already and other than that nothing new to be seen at this spot.
What's more, the photographers being sent out by the opponent teams take pictures, but again, what would they get to see more than we already do on the pictures on the Internet? Pretty much every detail of the cars is on here, for example.
Sorry for the confusion, what I meant was lack of miles as in , they didnt do as many laps as I thought they would. Does anyone know why this was ?strad wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 04:21Nathan said that Racing Point's miles were not listed.
They were because they were lumped in with Mercedes miles just like all the other Mercedes engine runners.
Their drivers laps were there as were their total laps.
I heard lack of parts/spares and essentially, the car they tested with is far from what they'll bring to Melbourne. It was mentioned that they will have by a considerable measure, the most changed car for race 1.NathanOlder wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 09:57Sorry for the confusion, what I meant was lack of miles as in , they didnt do as many laps as I thought they would. Does anyone know why this was ?
Hamilton's advantage was on 3rd sector, where he was 2 tenths faster over Vettel, while being slower in both S1 and S2. Last year, after having clearly understood the lack of slow corner performance at Spa, they applied some fixes that enabled them to win on a circuit like Marina Bay and that performance carried over to Suzuka (particularly last chicane) and it was obvious in COTA (last corner) too.mika vs michael wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 10:28Hamilton matching the Vettel time and being a bit slower in speed trapes means that at least Mercedes is equal with Ferrari...ok maybe Mercedes could be a couple tenths behind an Hamilton performing a mega lap covers that 0.2 sec distance but...
"I really feel there are areas the car has made good steps forward, in slow-speed corners the car feels better than last year, but in other areas there is still work to do."
But without looking at the underside of a car you already see everything other than the middle part of the floor. Could someone explain me what’s so critical about the middle section of a floor? Because it looks relatively simple designed.zibby43 wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 09:21The underfloor of a Formula 1 car is arguably one of the most critical pieces of the entire car in terms of aerodynamic performance.LM10 wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 03:49Why is it so important for teams to especially cover the underside of the car when it's being put on flatbeds? Besides the FW part, there isn't that much to be seen anyway, am I wrong? There are multiple shots of the rear and the diffuser going around already and other than that nothing new to be seen at this spot.
What's more, the photographers being sent out by the opponent teams take pictures, but again, what would they get to see more than we already do on the pictures on the Internet? Pretty much every detail of the cars is on here, for example.
That's the simplest answer to your question.
Do note that McL was on 3 stopper.GPR -A wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019, 08:36https://i.screenshot.net/5w95yt7
Some comparison on the mid-field teams. There was race sim data available for either Renault or for Haas.
McLaren seems to be very very strong! Looking from lap 37 onwards, they started running in 1m21s, which is serious mid-race pace. No other mid-field team has shown that so far.
While I did not find times for a Renault race sim, looking through various stints from Renault drivers, they seem to be up with McLaren.
Haas seems to be behind these two and then behind are Toro Rosso and Alfa. Needless to say, Williams is the last.
I could not find good representative long run times from RP. So, not sure where they sit.
