F1 Testing 2010

Ezee84 said:
Good solid stuff from the Lotus team. Their main objective from today would have been to get the car back in one piece with a hard drive full of data so job done in that respect. Lap times will have been pretty far down the order for them on the 1st test for sure. I expect the car to be a lot quicker once they hand it over to the 'proper' drivers.

I'd be suprised if Heikki & Trulli aren't at least half a sec per lap quicker than Fauzy. Possibly more.
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Fauzy reckons that getting the power steering installed tonight is worth 3 seconds a lap on a wet track and more than 3 seconds on a dry track. :eek:
 
i dont see branson sticking with f1 for more than hes contracted to personally.

he doesnt seem the type to be in it for the motor racing
 
Flibster said:
Fauzy reckons that getting the power steering installed tonight is worth 3 seconds a lap on a wet track and more than 3 seconds on a dry track. :eek:
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his helmet must be made of tinfoil too....

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FIRE!!!
 
Day 2 times added to OP. Still difficult to read much from it. Lets hope for dry weather next week as they put the final parts on the cars and maybe see some flying laps.
 
The problem with all these wet testing sessions is that it is becoming very difficult (almost impossible), for us to glean any real information from testing times.

What seems to be happening is that the fastest time is not being put up by the fastest driver/car, but the driver/car who comes out at the right time of the day (ie. at the dryest point of the wet session).
 
Kovi's general thoughts of the Lotus so far are that it has the potential to be very good although it lacks grip in high speed corners but is very good in the low speed corners. The car is also too heavy at present.

Looks like the hydraulic issues were an installation error rather than anything major so positive news there.

Shame he binned it today as the most important thing for the team right now is to gather data. Hopefully he can do a full stint tomorrow without issues.

I personally wouldn't read too much into who sets fastest laps & general lap times to be honest. Remember some of the smaller teams will be running on fumes to get a quick time to attract potential sponsors & most of the teams will be trying to figure out tyre wear on different fuel loads.

Also the likes of Ferrari/McLaren/Red Bull don't usually do any runs on absolute fumes in testing as they won't want to show the true pace of the car to the others.
 
sunama said:
The problem with all these wet testing sessions is that it is becoming very difficult (almost impossible), for us to glean any real information from testing times.

What seems to be happening is that the fastest time is not being put up by the fastest driver/car, but the driver/car who comes out at the right time of the day (ie. at the dryest point of the wet session).
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You need to make your mind up :D
 
Ezee84 said:
Also the likes of Ferrari/McLaren/Red Bull don't usually do any runs on absolute fumes in testing as they won't want to show the true pace of the car to the others.
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Why is that then? Are they afraid that when the opposition see just how fast they really are going, they will try harder? I think not.

In general, if you are fast during pre-season testing, you are fast in the first few races of the season. We've seen this pattern virtually every single year, for as long as I can remember.

At some stage during the test all teams (including Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull), have to run with low fuel and optimised setups to see just how fast they can go. This is part of the testing program.

If teams decide to run slow on purpose or only run the car using a slow setup/high fuel load, then they run into the danger of having a car whose performance is totally unknown, in qualifying trim, come the first race of the season.

Hiding the performance of your own car, goes against the very fundamentals of testing, as you will end up with a car which hasn't been extensively tested (as the team tries to hide the true performance of the car).
 
CS||nuTs said:
You need to make your mind up :D
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I have.

If the tracks are all dry and the conditions are consistent, you can make conclusions based on the lap times which are being put up.

However, if it rains and the conditions of the track are constantly changing there is virtually no way of reliably extrapolating any conclusions, based purely on those lap times. In the wet, we can quite possibly see a Lotus (or any other slow car), go out on a dry track and put in a 1m 20s lap time. After a downpour, a Ferrari and McLaren could come out and struggle to break the 1m 30s barrier. We see similar things happen when rain occurs during qualifying for races, where the slowest cars (in previous races), end up on the front rows of the grid, purely because of the fact that they put up their lap time, before a downpour.
 
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