2012 Testing - Barcelona 2: 1 - 4 March

[Mr.S]

Ferarri are doing constantly MID to LOW fuel runs. Most of their runs are in 1-25's,1-26's & stuff.

Barely any 1-29's & 1-30's.

[kooleracer]

Ferrari is not having a good day at the office. A lot of instalation laps and the only covererd 60 odd laps today. Also Mclaren en Lotus are having issues. So of the topteams only Mercedes and Red Bull are stable. Ferrari en McLaren still having issues on the last test week. This is all playing in the hands of Red Bull again. Ferrari is still making wholesale changes on the last test days. They losing an awful lot of track time because of that. Quite because Alonso think they only understand 20% of the car.

72 1:27.993 -3.329
73 1:28.101 +0.108
74 1:28.259 +0.158
75 1:28.461 +0.202
76 1:28.333 -0.128
77 1:28.305 -0.028
78 1:28.277 -0.028
79 1:28.309 +0.032
80 1:28.299 -0.01
81 1:28.352 +0.053
82 1:28.583 +0.231
83 1:31.451 +2.868
84 1:28.496 -2.955
85 1:28.861 +0.365
86 1:28.919 +0.058
87 1:29.041 +0.122

This is quite troubling for the rest of the field.

[Maynard G. Krebs]

Would they be allowed to have a movable exhaust? Not for aero, but if they want to blow/warm the tires, and then have the exhaust tips move away from pointing at the tires, say after 30 seconds or something.

[Peetbeat]

laptimes of rosberg arent as constant as webbers ....i thought this car isnt a tyrekiller?

[blokkie]

-SNIP-

And some hope for Mercedes. The car is DOWNRIGHT shitty with tyres. Eats it up. Now Steady Improvement. Only 2s loss over 10 Laps. That is better than loosing 3.5-4s over 7-8 Laps.

It's the way they test today. Like explained in the Merc thread: ( viewtopic.php?p=315432#p315432 )

I wouldn't worry until the team does. They may have Rosberg drive the car hard to see what the drop off is if you drive in such a way.

There was a Bawn quote from the end of the last test saying just that - they wanted to understand how best to utilise new tyres - push hard early or treat them nicely!

So it's just them testing how fast the degradation is . It's checking the metrics ..

Don't conclude to much about the timings or "degradation" if you don't know the actial testing-plan.

[ReLax]

laptimes of rosberg arent as constant as webbers ....i thought this car isnt a tyrekiller?

AFAIK the Front-Tyre's are getting killed at the W03. Read a post here on the old testing-Day Thread as i reckognize right.

[FrukostScones]

Ferrari is not having a good day at the office. A lot of instalation laps and the only covererd 60 odd laps today. Also Mclaren en Lotus are having issues. So of the topteams only Mercedes and Red Bull are stable. Ferrari en McLaren still having issues on the last test week. This is all playing in the hands of Red Bull again.

72 1:27.993 -3.329
73 1:28.101 +0.108
74 1:28.259 +0.158
75 1:28.461 +0.202
76 1:28.333 -0.128
77 1:28.305 -0.028
78 1:28.277 -0.028
79 1:28.309 +0.032
80 1:28.299 -0.01
81 1:28.352 +0.053
82 1:28.583 +0.231
83 1:31.451 +2.868
84 1:28.496 -2.955
85 1:28.861 +0.365
86 1:28.919 +0.058
87 1:29.041 +0.122

This is quite troubling for the rest of the field.

no, we don't know his fuel load, the hard tyres worked the same (without steep drop off) for McLaren and other teams.

[Th0R]

@kooleracer you wrote that lotus and mclaren are having problems, is there any source which states what kind of problems?

[Peetbeat]

laptimes of rosberg arent as constant as webbers ....i thought this car isnt a tyrekiller?

AFAIK the Front-Tyre's are getting killed at the W03. Read a post here on the old testing-Day Thread as i reckognize right.

i hope they can fix it a little bit to close the gap to RB [-o<

[drunkmunky]

big update with the sauber.

[Blackout]

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11509&start=210

[Mr.S]

Everyone should give up. Red Bull will win AGAIN. Webber lost 1s over a 16 Lap Run. This is ridiculous. Mclaren,Ferrari have no chance.

And Mercedes' needs to SOLVE tyre degradation issues to get 2nd or 3rd place.This is Rosberg's best stint in terms of tyre wear & he has lost almosyt 1s in 7 Laps. Compare that to Webber's 16 Lap run. This is completely Unheard of. What has Newey got in the bag???

[blokkie]

thx for linking to the explenation of the horizontal elements above the sidepods

[kooleracer]

@kooleracer you wrote that lotus and mclaren are having problems, is there any source which states what kind of problems?

McLaren havent been on the track for 2 hours now. There is a reason for that. Analyzing data isn't the reason because thats done at Woking on the fly. So there a nursing somekind of issue now. I don't know what it is, but there got to be one.

Lotus same story. Only completed 54 laps. The came out and whent straight back in.

No source but i think autosport will report on this when they write their test report at the end of this session.

[Mr.S]

Newey is an absolute genius. I give up. Adrian. You have won this year too. This is a WINNING car hands down.

Webber lost 1s over a 16 lap run. 16 Freaking Laps. This is unheard off. If he wanted maybe he could have 30 odd laps with that tyre. Red Bull is going to do 1 Whole Pit Stop less than the others.