F1 2013 Testing: Week 1 Jerez

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Ferrari confirmed that it was the gearbox this morning which is being replaced at the moment.

Hopefully they'll be out again this afternoon.
 
Just wear and tear. If there was a little crack in it then F1 cars driving over it repeatedly will start pulling the surface up. Eventually it loosens enough for a big chunk to get pulled up, and viola, a gert big hole to ruin your test.
 
Nismo said:
Force of an F1 car clouting over it, it normally happens at least once during a season where a practice session is stopped because a bit of track/curb breaks up.
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Added to that, generally the jerez track is in very poor condition anyway. A couple of teams have complained about it in the past as has Pirelli this year.

I'm all for more testing to be run on tracks that aren't in the F1 calendar, but they need to be of the same quality as the poorest F1 track *so that'll be Canada or Brazil then... ;)*
 
Mike306 said:
Seems that's to simple to do. They could have done that, then fixed the hole during the lunch break maybe.
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There's no official lunch break at Jerez, so they had to stop the session and repair it.

They've added 30 minutes to the end of the day anyway, so no real issue in terms of lost running time.
 
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes is exactly where he had hoped it would be right now, after getting his first proper experience of the new W04.

After his first day of action at Jerez on Tuesday was cut short by a crash caused by brake failure, Hamilton was finally able to put together a proper evaluation programme on Thursday.

And although Hamilton did not shy away from the fact that his team will need to improve the car's speed if it is to challenge at the front, he said that its performance was realistically the best he could hope for.

"I think we are at the level where we would have hoped to have been," he said, when asked by AUTOSPORT for his verdict on where the team was at right now. "I couldn't really have asked for more.

"The guys have done a great job to add downforce to the car, understand where they have been and take the car in the direction they want to go. Now they need direction.

"They need me and Nico to tell them where we can improve the car and which direction we need to go - is it front end that we need to improve?

"Is it rear end? Is it globally? Is it corner entry? Is it corner exit? All this kind of thing. So that is what we are working on."

Hamilton concedes that the Mercedes appears to be lacking downforce compared to what he was used to at McLaren, but he has faith that progress would be delivered over time.

"We have some work to do but it doesn't feel like it was a disaster," he said. "I feel like it's [the car] a good platform, a good foundation to work from.

"Definitely we are going to keep asking for downforce, and hope the guys continue to do a great job at the factory."
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Lap count as of 14:45...


Bianchi 56
Raikkonen 51
Vettel 74
Gutierrez 119
Hamilton 101
Perez 69
Vergne 68
De la Rosa 34
Bottas 53
Pic 77
Di Resta 14
Razia 75
 
Jono8 said:
Lewis's last three laps:

1:25.872
1:25.866
1:25.892

Now thats consistency!
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I remember alonso doing something like that in the Renault in a race. He was told he needed something like 8 laps at something like a 1:16.7 and he did exactly that. Was unbelievable.

Where are you getting live timing?
 
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