F1 Testing 2010

SKILL said:
In a car with no setup (the team doesn't even have last years setups to 'guesstimate' from), with a driver who's never driven the car in anger before, in soaking wet conditions?

The time tells us absolutely nothing about the pace of the Virgin...
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didnt they do some laps at silverstone? surely they have a rough setup.

they only did 6 laps today aswell which is more worrying than beeing 6.5seconds off the pace of a car that did its lap at the same time....

btw all the aero stuff and cameras on the cars are probably just to gather data for the simulators and not much else?
 
The silverstone day was just a shakedown wasn't it? I doubt the setup will be very close to 'quick',

Yes, the lack of laps today is far more worrying, it could be just because they didn't see much point in pushing it on a wet track, or it could be some fundemental problems showed up,

But as above, we'll see, hopefully with a dry day tomorrow, I don't expect them to be lightning quick but I don't expect to see them behind by that much either...
 
blackrider said:
I wouldn't be too worried about VR just yet, it seems they just took it easy today in the wet as they don't have many spare parts at the moment.

A few things are mentioned in this Q & A with Timo Glock
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81388
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ORLY?!

F1todat.nl said:
Virgin-Racing car falls apart

The session is neutralized and the cause lies with the new Virgin Racing. The VR-01 lost all elements of the bodywork in Turn 2 that must be cleared first.
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Looks like his nose came off. That's a few quids worth of carbon fibre gone. It ain't cheap is it this F1 lark :)

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Also looks like there is something falling off the sidepod, unless thats the wing stuck under the car.

It's a bit worrying if the wing fell off all by itself from normal use O.o
 
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