2014 Testing - Jerez 28-31 Jan

[MercedesAMG]

Some new like this:

http://f1tests.info/2013.php

available anywhere?

[George77]

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/694

[Pup]

108 laps for Magnussen so far - is he doing, or has he done a race sim as well?

[diemaster]

good day and good lap for marussia.

[erlik]

Did Magnussen and Kvyat have contact at the end?

[Felipe 92]

On skysportsf1 twitter it says it was spin

[Forza]

[timbo]

Wow, Merc sounds wildly different in the last vid. Wonder was race simulation when the vid was recorded? Would they switch cylinders off to safe fuel at certain parts of the race?

[Forza]

[zoro_f1]

here is graphical illustration of how many LAPS are done by every team and power unit manufactures.



click to enlarge...

[mclaren_mircea]

I'm still not convinced regarding all that Mercedes yay, Red Bull nay - talking. Could it be that Mercedes were mostly focused on reliability instead of performance and RB went the other way round? If that was the case, Mercedes need to hope for RB to retire like every 2nd race of the season, which I doubt is going to happen. Sure, you can work on your setup early on with a reliable car and squeeze out some tenths of a second, but that wouldn't really help much if their concept is clearly behind RB's concept performance-wise. And then there's McLaren aswell ... even though the laptimes in Jerez don't mean a lot, it still seems like they've got some serious pace aswell.

+1

Mp4-29 shown flashes of speed that I dind't saw on the W05. Hamilton's best time on Thursday was on mediums, like Kevin, and he did a 7 lap stint, while Magnussen ws on his first hours as a F1 official driver, made gis time on a 3 lap stint, and between them was more than half a second (it was almost a second). In now situation extra fuel for 4 laps will bring you more than half a second. And remember that Kevin said that it wasn't a back at the wall lap that 1:23:2 because in the subsequent lap he did a 1:23:5 a lap time which wasn't touched by Rosberg or Hamilton in 4 days. They did in this four days long stints, but not only, and believe if Mclaren's team of engineers got it wrong last year, doesn't mean that they can't do a better car than Aldo Costa and Geoff Willis. There were aero measurment laps for Mercedes W05 not only race simulations, and in none of that they were close to mp4-29. In fact in all the days mp4-29 was on track was faster than W05.
The discussion with the sponsors it's non sense, because they have big big budget for this year, and from 2015 HONDA will be sponsor to (pumping money not only free engines). After a bad year like 2013, Mclaren can't afford to to running for the sponsors, all what they did was optimising the car.

[Trocola]

Plus the fact Mclaren are still looking for a title sponsor, so putting their car at the top of the time sheets was always going to look good. Also the fact the Kevin put his car off the track twice yesterday, suggests they were pushing a little harder than most of the others.

The same thing was said when BrawnGP tested in Barcelona: the car is underweight, they are doing glory laps, they are looking for a sponsor...

The Magnussen's red flags could be because he is new on F1 and was with slick tyres on a cold circuit that was half wet

Sorry for the off-topic

[mclaren_mircea]

1 Kevin Magnussen McLaren 1m 23.276s - 162
2 Felipe Massa Williams 1m 23.700s +0.424s 133
3 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m 23.952s +0.676s 121
4 Jenson Button McLaren 1m 24.165s +0.889s 83
5 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m 24.812s +1.536s 78
6 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1m 25.344s +2.068s 42
7 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m 25.495s +2.219s 173
8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m 25.588s +2.312s 188
9 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1m 26.096s +2.820s 17
10 Sergio Perez Force India 1m 28.376s +5.100s 48
11 Daniel Juncadella Force India 1m 29.457s +6.181s 81
12 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 1m 29.915s +6.639s 45
13 Adrian Sutil Sauber 1m 30.161s +6.885s 103
14 Jules Bianchi Marussia 1m 32.222s +8.946s 25
15 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber 1m 33.270s +9.946s 60
16 Marcus Ericsson Caterham 1m 37.975s +14.699s 12
17 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1m 38.320s +15.044s 11
18 Kamui Kobayashi Caterham 1m 43.193s +19.917s 54
19 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 1m 44.016s +20.740s 9
20 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 1m 45.374s +22.098s 10
21 Robin Frijns Caterham No time - 10
22 Max Chilton Marussia No time - 5

[SectorOne]

I love infographics and graphs so thanks

[zoro_f1]

@SectorOne graphic visualisation is very good for spectators and also a little bit for engineers too... i will make further more data (statistics) in the future... thanks for your like...