2013 Testing - Barcelona 1: 19 - 22 Feb

[SchumiSutil]

Well, until we will see a race simulation for Mercedes, it will be difficult to foresee anything. After all Rosberg is on hard tyres, and looking at Grosjean this afternoon and Maldonado this morning the wear is slimmer than yesterday...

[FoxHound]

I think it's obvious Rosberg is not doing a full race simulation (unlike RG, MW,PM)

Stint simulation is as good. Given the temperature difference of a normal GP weekend and at this test, not as much info can gleaned from tyre deg.

[Maxion]

Red Bull look the team to beat at the moment me thinks

Huh, why? Grosjean is currently lapping faster and also on a long race simulation.

GRO is at least one stint in front.

I did a bit of data crunching.

Matching up webbers and grosjeans first 39 laps the table looks like this:



Summing up the laps for which there's a time for both drivers we find that Gro is .057s slower on average per lap than webber has been. So they are quite close. Also do bear in mind that Grosjean started his stint 17 laps before webber did, track being more green and all that.


If anyone wants the raw data shout out, it's a PITA to copy down.

[Blackout]

Grosjean's race sim

54 1:31.446 +4.675
55 1:31.647 +0.201
56 1:31.422 -0.225
57 1:32.090 +0.668
58 1:32.582 +0.492

61 1:28.523 -4.059
62 1:28.543 +0.02
63 1:29.785 +1.242
64 1:30.759 +0.974
65 1:31.128 +0.369
66 1:30.940 -0.188
67 1:31.716 +0.776
68 1:31.359 -0.357
69 1:32.642 +1.283
70 1:31.499 -1.143
71 1:31.743 +0.244
72 1:32.271 +0.528

75 1:27.005 -5.266
76 1:27.828 +0.823
77 1:28.051 +0.223
78 1:28.988 +0.937
79 1:30.312 +1.324
80 1:37.146 +6.834
81 1:30.288 -6.858
82 1:30.248 -0.04
83 1:30.497 +0.249
84 1:30.917 +0.42
86 1:32.727 +1.81
88 1:31.536 -1.191

91 1:29.147 -2.389
92 1:28.594 -0.553
93 1:28.262 -0.332
94 1:28.423 +0.161
95 1:28.622 +0.199
97 1:29.118 +0.496
98 1:29.188 +0.07
99 1:29.397 +0.209
100 1:29.324 -0.073
101 1:29.265 -0.059
102 1:29.127 -0.138
103 1:29.248 +0.121
104 1:28.880 -0.368
105 1:29.461 +0.581
106 1:28.957 -0.504
107 1:29.238 +0.281
108 1:29.403 +0.165
109 1:29.601 +0.198
110 1:29.836 +0.235
111 1:30.361 +0.525

114 1:28.093 -2.268
115 1:28.343 +0.25
117 1:28.473 +0.13
118 1:27.465 -1.008

[GrizzleBoy]

FIA needs to ban red flagging sessions within 30 minutes toward the end and allocate set time slots for people to do their fuel checks.

[dxpetrov]

At this stage the track is basically the same. It doesn't get any better in terms of rubber. It could only get worse since the temperature is going down.
More so, I haven't seen anyone doing 26s in the race sim yet, as WEB just did, followed by mid 27s. Impressive...

[gray41]

Tomorrow could be a right off with the weather and temperature.

[Mika1]

Tomorrow could be a right off with the weather and temperature.

Yeah, LH will leave the pitbox ASAP.

[Mika1]

Tomorrow could be a right off with the weather and temperature.

Yeah, LH will leave the pitbox ASAP.

[Maelstrom]

Maybe we'll get to see the full wets and intermediates in action.

[Maxion]

At this stage the track is basically the same. It doesn't get any better in terms of rubber. It could only get worse since the temperature is going down.
More so, I haven't seen anyone doing 26s in the race sim yet, as WEB just did, followed by mid 27s. Impressive...

Well, that was on fresh tyres right after a pit stop with (presumably and most likely) a low fuel load since he's at the end of his race sim.

[dxpetrov]

At this stage the track is basically the same. It doesn't get any better in terms of rubber. It could only get worse since the temperature is going down.
More so, I haven't seen anyone doing 26s in the race sim yet, as WEB just did, followed by mid 27s. Impressive...

Well, that was on fresh tyres right after a pit stop with (presumably and most likely) a low fuel load since he's at the end of his race sim.

As fresh as Grosjan's after his 4th pit stop. And also some 14 laps before the end of race sim, which was disrupted by the red flag.

[dren]

Merc, Lotus, RB all looking decent on tires today.


Any idea what tires Nico was running earlier for his banger lap? I believe they were used mediums but not sure.......

Mediums with several laps of fuel on board for Nico. Alonso and Grosjean were on Softs.

[Tamburello]

So who's going to win in Melbourne? That's all I want to know.

[madly]

I did a bit of data crunching.

Matching up webbers and grosjeans first 39 laps the table looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/V0zLRP2.png

Summing up the laps for which there's a time for both drivers we find that Gro is .057s slower on average per lap than webber has been. So they are quite close. Also do bear in mind that Grosjean started his stint 17 laps before webber did, track being more green and all that.

If anyone wants the raw data shout out, it's a PITA to copy down.

What is in column N of your spreadsheet?
In row 27 - GRO has 7s slower laptime (run-off?). I think you should see at all times and flatten that kind of excessive incidental slower times to see slightly better picture.