2013 Testing - Barcelona 1: 19 - 22 Feb

[Glyn]

That's why I always preferred the Bridgestones, they allowed drivers to push without fear of losing the tyres. These days a driver behind can't push like mad, catch up to, and engage a thrilling battle with another driver because by the time they get there they won't have any tyres left!

How were the Bridgestones designed? How were they able to make a car require multiple stops, or at least make a multiple stop race much quicker?

Although these tyres will make pitting decisions quite crucial.

[CjC]

Correct me if I'm mistaken but did the teams run a 'development tyre' in Brazil and gave good feed back to Pirelli?

I dont like the rule to run the start of the race on the tyre you qualified with, but i am a fan of having to run the 2 type of tyre in the race

[atanatizante]

It would have been a better idea to keep those tyres from last year and impose a mandatory number of pit stops per race, depending on the pitstops they did last year in a particular race and adding 2 more.
E.g. if 2012 Melbourne race was a 2 stopper race, then mandatory must be a 4 stop race for this year ...

[ajdavison2]

That's why I always preferred the Bridgestones, they allowed drivers to push without fear of losing the tyres. These days a driver behind can't push like mad, catch up to, and engage a thrilling battle with another driver because by the time they get there they won't have any tyres left!

How were the Bridgestones designed? How were they able to make a car require multiple stops, or at least make a multiple stop race much quicker?

Although these tyres will make pitting decisions quite crucial.

Well I'm no tyre expert, but I think in lamens terms they were slower over 1 lap, had a wider working window, but lasted longer. It got to the point where people were doing almost a full race on Bridgestones and stopping on the last lap (I think Vettel was one man to do this, in Japan? )

[Hail22]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrhwtJcgksA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbZJh6FFVe0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AaxPWPuLAI[/youtube]

Please note that video three is a photo compilation from day 2.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntpzQkkGCbU[/youtube]

[andrewf1]

so they are indeed using a bit of a different layout to the circuit in sector 3! i didn't know that and it looks like a shorter route. it partially explains the closeness in lap times with the 2012 qualifying.
edit: * hmm, or maybe im wrong *

thanks for the videos!

[NathanOlder]

so they are indeed using a bit of a different layout to the circuit in sector 3! i didn't know that and it looks like a shorter route. it partially explains the closeness in lap times with the 2012 qualifying.
edit: * hmm, or maybe im wrong *

thanks for the videos!

Looks the same to me. Pretty sure its the same final sector as used in F1 recently

[Nando]

I´m a little bit confused about certain times like Red Bull being in the 1.30´s etc.

Last year´s quali was 1.21.7
This was nearly done today with Perez in the Mclaren with what i would guess is more fuel then running on fumes basically.
And the fact that DRS is not used everywhere anymore.
New tires i guess makes up for it as well but anyways.

I was under the impression that fumes vs full tank was around 5 seconds including the no DRS use in the race (for the leader)

But let´s say Vettel, 1.21 today but then race runs up in the 1.30´s,
That´s quite a large gap imo.

Even if he was running absolute full tank i can´t understand how he can be so many seconds of his quickest time.
Think his slowest was 1.34? 13 seconds i´m sure isn´t what you lose from 100+kg´s of fuel.

Sandbagging perhaps?

[Tamburello]

^^^High fuel load, old tyres?

[Shrieker]

One thing is clear, I'm still not used to seeing so much difference between fast qualy laps and race laps. It's become... Endurance racing.

[mx_tifoso]

Which is why F1 should soon merge with LMP1. Some more body work and weight will do the trick to get it to spec.

[Ferraripilot]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrhwtJcgksA[/youtube]

Interesting. Note how hard Lewis nails the throttle just out of turn 1. Yet I believe at turn 7 he takes a fairly wide line. The car looks good though. Very stable under braking with nice turn in.

[Shrieker]

He closes the rear wing flap more or less a full second before he starts braking. Would you guys rather say it's regular practice during testing, or is their DRD causing reattachment issues like their DDRS was doing last season. I can't really tell from the vid. though if they got the DRD on the car or not.

[raymondu999]

It seems to be something he does at times. I remember in Monza 2011 (when he was trying to pass Schumacher for something like 20-odd laps) Lewis was always closing his DRS before the braking zone. And that was with a properly blown diffuser with overrun mapping, not the half-blown coanda exhaust diffusers we have nowadays.

[Hail22]

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