F1 Testing 2012 - Week 2, Barcelona

Haha, just checked on the site again and it has magically changed to a 1:26.xxx :D

Damn, was getting my hopes up there and thinking it could be a 5 horse race at the front.
 
If I'm honest I am massively disappointed in Caterham.

I know its testing and all that, but after almost 2 full tests they haven't got within 4 seconds of the top time. I can't believe that they haven't tried at least once for a qualifying simulation.

:(
 
Day 3 times

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[b]Pos  Driver         Team            Time                Laps[/b]
1    Maldonado	    Williams	    1m22.391s	        106
2    Schumacher	    Mercedes	    1m23.384s  +0.993	127
3    Kobayashi	    Sauber	    1m23.582s  +1.191	99
4    Button	    McLaren	    1m23.918s  +1.527	114
5    Vergne	    Toro Rosso	    1m24.433s  +2.042	78
6    Webber	    Red Bull	    1m24.771s  +2.380	97
7    Massa	    Ferrari	    1m24.771s  +2.380	84
8    Di Resta	    Force India	    1m25.646s  +3.255	83
9    Glock	    Marussia	    1m26.173s  +3.782	108
10   Petrov	    Caterham	    1m26.448s  +4.057	70
 
What happened to the RB?

Hoping Caterham didn't do anything else than race sims today, otherwise it's not looking good.
 
is a driver deemed to have "lifted off" if he keeps his right foot flat to the floor and brakes with "left foot/hand/thought control" ?


Skeeter said:
http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-publi...E/1-2012 TECHNICAL REGULATIONS 07-12-2011.pdf

Section 5. (5.5. onwards).

Difficult to get your head around, but there are a lot of mentions of linking throttle position to drivers foot and things, suggesting holding the throttle open when the driver lifts off is banned. 5.6.6. seems to cover those claims that people were using it for reliability. They can continue to do so, but only at high RPM.

From what I gather from that, the teams are limited to 2 engine maps all season, one for Dry and one for Wet. The position of the throttle in the engine must relate to the position of the drivers foot, specifically when the driver is off throttle the engine must be as well. And there is an exception that at over 80% throttle and 15,000rpm stuff can be done to ensure reliability. Put simply, off throttle maps are banned.
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Damien. said:
MSC and the Merc looks like its taking shape.
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Webbo's average lap time was 1:28.978 in 51 laps (with 3 different tyre types)

Schumi's was 1:29.327 in 59 laps (with 2 different tyre types)

Difference is 0,349/lap

i dont know about RBR but it looked like the merc never ran light as one one of the stints in that simulation webber was faster on hards than msc was on mediums where as when they were both on hards at the start of the simulation the times were very similar.

the RBR possibly ran out of fuel at the end of the simulation aswell.

so far i reckon it looks like

RBR
+
3-4 tenths
mclaren/mercedes (seems to close to call)

ferrari seem to be in a bit of trouble with the new car, right now i would put them behind mercedes and mclaren
 
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All cars will have updates, so that means nothing.

Happy with car is the difference between front runner and winning. Needs to be an awesome car.
 
Mr Men said:
LOL
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just for you from the james allen blog
The feeling was less positive from Fernando Alonso as he signed off from testing the Ferrari at Barcelona. The Spaniard never managed more than short bursts of laps at a time. “I don’t know if we are competitive or not,” he said.” We’ve tested lots of things and the strengths and weaknesses we saw in Jerez are the same. It’s a complex car and we need to understand it,” he said. The body language of the Ferrari crew in Barcelona tells its own story. We’ve all known each other long enough that you can tell what kind of car a team has by watching the mechanics and engineers, without needing to look at a stopwatch or lap time clusters.

Speaking to Italian media Alonso said that the car has problems on corner exits in particular. “It’s an area where we are struggling,” he admitted. “We don’t know if it will be a season or triumph or disappointment. Our plan is ambitious; we want to win from the first race, but I don’t know where we are.” Today Felipe Massa drove the car and managed 84 laps, almost exclusively on the hard Pirelli tyres.
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on the other hand
RBR
MERC
MCLAREN
all seen fairly happy with what they have and have all been doing work on long runs
 
arknor said:
just for you from the james allen blog


on the other hand
RBR
MERC
MCLAREN
all seen fairly happy with what they have and have all been doing work on long runs
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Webber says RB need to improve before Australia, you keep day dreaming though :)

This first long period of shaking down for the F2012 is now reaching its conclusion. While the mantra repeated on a daily basis by the crew of the Prancing Horse remains the same from Jerez to today – “we are acquiring data on the behaviour of the new car,” there’s a good reason for it: the team is concentrating mainly on analysing all the information gathered on what is a totally new project, featuring some extreme elements that require an in-depth check in order to be fit for purpose by the start of the season.

The work on the track has therefore been rather different to previous winters, leaning more towards set-up modifications and on car configuration rather than looking for performance over short and long distances. Yes, there have also been a few little problems on the reliability front which have slowed down the operation, but the guide lines for the real development work are beginning to emerge and they will form the basis of the final test session next week, which will get underway on Friday 2 March, twenty four hours later than planned. Also different to usual will be the running order of the drivers, in that Felipe will start and then alternate with his team-mate, who will bring the session to an end on Monday 5 March.

Today, Felipe was back in the cockpit of the F2012 after four days in which it fell to Fernando to see to development. “The car is definitely better compared to Jerez and we are beginning to define how we must move forward to continue to improve,” said the Brazilian. “I ran all the time on the hardest tyres and I am reasonably pleased with the work we did. Tomorrow, I will try the other compounds and we will work on fine tuning the car. It will be important to do a lot of kilometres over these final five days to be as well prepared as possible for the first race of the season.”
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Maybe you should remember winter testing with Ferrari and the F2004, looked average all winter until the final test at Imola :)
 
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