On the fifth day of testing at Jerez de la Frontera, Williams F1 Team driver Kazuki Nakajima was the fastest man on track with a lap time of 1:17.494. McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen clocked a fastest lap of 1:17.933.
Not I...I can't see where that time came from. But if genuine then that will shake things up again.Conceptual wrote:Oooh... Drama!
Alonso fastest infront of his home crowd... Who didn't see that coming?
On the old surfaced track, before the Senna curve was added.Moanlower wrote:Great boost for the doubtfull fans especially and those at Jerez anyway. I do think that Brawn is still a half second faster at the least .. if they may keep all their innovations.
Wasn't the track record Senna's 1min18.387 ?
from Formula1.com:natef1 wrote:15:14h red Flag!! The Brawn GP of Button has not endured more and has stopped in the straight line that precedes the chicane Senna.
Anyone know if he just stopped out on track, had a failure of some sort, or worse?
Now, assuming that they were still using the same gearbox set from last week's tests...the failure would have been expected. Otherwise, if it's a completely new gearbox, then they might have a small concern with gearbox reliability, with some "seemingly" bad items in a batch. IIRC, they are using their own gearbox and not a Mclaren-developed one.Ross Brawn had both his team’s drivers in action. Barrichello completed a series of set-up and tyre evaluations and covered 62 laps in the morning. Jenson Button took over for the afternoon and began a race simulation before a gearbox problem brought his running to an early conclusion after 12 laps, leaving him third fastest.
Welcome bmw fanatic, to THE forum. I agree with your overall picture of the current situation. Right now, it's too early to predict pace. No one knows exactly what configuration each car is running. And what better way for Brawn and company to garner some much-needed positive publicity than to immediately top the time sheets. And who knows what Brawn's most important priorities are. Is gaining positive publicity and pulling in more sponsors more important at this time than just doing testing? We will find out in Australia.bmw fanatic wrote:Hi guys. been skimming through your site for months think its great. my opinion on the new BRAWN GP's blistering pace is due to a lack of ballast. i too thought that their radical design had paid off as a result of their headstart on the project but after watching fernando clinch the fastest time in the closing stages i am more skeptical. Mainly due to the same suspicion that renault have (running without ballast to flatter their pace) the fact that they only attempted to beat their time until the closing stages serves to show that they were mereley mimicking BRAWN GP's tactics to confirm their suspicion and provide a more accurate picture to the engineers. i bet if we looked at the times excludint the last few rounds we will see that the renault could not match the pace of the bgp for the rest of the day when they were running in race spec. the numbers should prove inconsistant. its just a guess so dont bite my head off but i think some may find this explanation useful.
well they did more than 100 laps and i doubt that they could get the car set up in time to run a completeley different set up with different weather conditions and pull off a lap that went so much further than theyve ever got close too before. furthermore they've tested without KERS before and ddnt come close.besides all cars should be faster with kers or else whats the point. they have been designed to run KERS therefore not running kers shouldnt benifit them more that a car that was not designed to run kers(at least in the near future).vall wrote:but perhaps Renault took KERS off and tried to optimize the mass distribution and see what happens? But I don;t really think so. I would guess they already did that to evaluate if it will be better not to run KERS...
