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Formula One tyre supplier Pirelli have said that the final day of testing at Jerez will be used for wet tyre testing after the track is artificially watered. The company also developed a special tyre for this test, specifically for the colder conditions.
But only 3/10 up on Jenson on a green track with little setup work. Time will tell.Rikhart wrote:Yes that time was a bit of an eye opener on the hards, which are supposed to be a full second slower than the softs (its half a second for each compound). My jaw dropped when I read they had done it on the hards, really.fritticaldi wrote:Although Raikkonen did not beat the best time of Massa yesterday , the real performance is Vettel's with 1'18'5 on hard tyres. The Red Bull also showed discerning reliability.
Can't hardly wait to see the performance of the Red Bull in the upcoming test in Barcelona. It's also a miracle the Red Bull attended the Jerez tests as they were behind schedule.
i know that, but red bull never reveal their tricks until last day of tests, also you need to consider that red bull run everything on their brazil specification, webber sayed that. i still think red bull even with Vettel time hid their performances in some way, but i think mclaren is over them a bit.mclaren_mircea wrote:@ Neno
Look an impression from Gary Anderson about Vettel's time.
BBC F1 technical analyst Gary Anderson in Jerez
"The longer this test has continued, the more it looks as though Jenson Button's fastest time of 1:18.8 in the McLaren on the first day was very reasonable indeed. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel has beaten it by 0.3secs on the final day but the track has four days' worth of rubber on it now, so should be considerably quicker"
I agree. Early days, lost of development to come especially for bigger teams, unknown time differences between tyre compounds, and it's Jerez with its weird layout and surface.McMrocks wrote:In my opinion nobody must fear any time set at this tests. First test is all about correlation. Updates will follow and even Massa said that he is still wowed by Button time. However we don't know how the cars were setup up and we don't know any fuel loads. I think they haven't tried to drive a time which shocks the rivals.
We can get an initial placement for teams. Adjusting times properly (-0.5s to Button for setting time the first day not 4th; -0.5s to Force India which I think can't be so bad they sandbag; -0.5s to Caterham after all they didn't seem SO slow) we getstefan_ wrote:Combined times: Jerez pre-season test
Pos. Driver / Team / Time / Laps / Tyre
1. Felipe Massa Ferrari / 1.17.879 / 227 laps / Soft
2. Kimi Räikkönen Lotus / 1.18.148 / 123 laps / Soft
3. Jules Bianchi Force India / 1.18.175 / 56 laps / Soft
4. Romain Grosjean Lotus / 1.18.218 / 149 laps / Soft
5. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull / 1.18.565 / 198 laps / Hard
6. Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber / 1.18.669 / 252 laps / Soft
7. Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso / 1.18.760 / 177 laps / Soft
8. Nico Rosberg Mercedes / 1.18.766 / 162 laps / Medium
9. Jenson Button McLaren / 1.18.861 / 120 laps / Hard
10. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes / 1.18.905 160 laps / Medium
11. Sergio Pérez McLaren / 1.18.944 / 179 laps / Medium
12. Paul di Resta Force India / 1.19.003 / 240 laps / Soft
13.Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso / 1.19.134 / 153 laps / Medium
14. James Rossiter Force India / 1.19.303 / 61 laps / Soft
15. Mark Webber Red Bull / 1.19.338 / 174 laps / Medium
16. Nico Hülkenberg Sauber / 1.19.502 / 178 laps / Medium
17. Valtteri Bottas Williams / 1.19.851 / 178 laps / Soft
18. Pedro de la Rosa Ferrari / 1.20.316 / 51 laps / Medium
19. Pastor Maldonado Williams / 1.20.693 / 155 laps / Medium
20. Charles Pic Caterham / 1.21.105 / 166 laps / Soft
21. Luiz Razia Marussia / 1.21.226 / 113 laps / Medium
22. Max Chilton Marussia / 1.21.269 / 107 laps / Soft
23. Giedo van der Garde Caterham / 1.21.311 / 152 laps / Medium
via gpupdate.net
Interesting that 3 of the top 4 teams in 2012 are at the bottom. I wonder if they are spending more time in the garage trying lots of different settings/parts, not wanting to leave a stone unturned?Poleman wrote:Did the calculations based on stefan_'s post and so we have:..
Lotus at least was consistently at least half an hour in the garage between outings, when they had no problems reported. I hope this programme pays off.richard_leeds wrote:Interesting that 3 of the top 4 teams in 2012 are at the bottom. I wonder if they are spending more time in the garage trying lots of different settings/parts, not wanting to leave a stone unturned?Poleman wrote:Did the calculations based on stefan_'s post and so we have:..