Pastor Maldonado recorded the fastest time on the penultimate testing day of the current 4-day session at Barcelona. The session was dominated by 4 red flags and was eventually cut short 3 minutes earlier than planned because Felipe Massa came to a halt in the pitlane.
Alonso hasn't done a "quick" lap today.CHT wrote:perhaps the teething problem is caused by the first quick lap alonso did with the F2012.banibhusan wrote:Ahh..Another small teething problem for the prancing horse so to say.Mr Alcatraz wrote: 10:40 @InsideFerrari brings news of minor trouble: "A small issue is keeping Fernando in the garage for a while... Nothing major but it takes some time to fix whoops
Last year the quickest Findia qualifying time was a 1:24.332 though. And Hulkenberg was on mediums. (Barca 2011 race, the option tyre was soft)blokkie wrote:And already Hulkenberg at 1:23.440 , almost there . Sounds realy promissingMr Alcatraz wrote:Fair reasoningbeelsebob wrote:Last year's pole time was a 1:20.9, given that this is probably the highest aero circuit of the year, we might be looking at a second to a second and a half's penalty from last year... I'd say if someone gets into the 1:22s in testing then 1) it will have been a very light car 2) the car is probably pretty damn quick. I'd expect in reality, due to sand bagging a low 1:23 will be the fastest we'll see in testing.
Plus they brought the super softs that they didn't have last week, although no one has used them yet I thinkshelly wrote:You have to factor tires in that. This years pirellis could be 1,2 or even 3 seconds quicker than last year - we have no clue about that and this offsets all times comparison
Where are you getting sector timing data?dieguezzz wrote:Is Vettel just gunning sector two without taking consideration of other sectors?? They are focusing on something... we need to find out
yeah tell us plzraymondu999 wrote:Where are you getting sector timing data?dieguezzz wrote:Is Vettel just gunning sector two without taking consideration of other sectors?? They are focusing on something... we need to find out
raymondu999 wrote:dieguezzz wrote:Is Vettel just gunning sector two without taking consideration of other sectors?? They are focusing on something... we need to find out
Yea what's up with thatWhere are you getting sector timing data?
just reading sms