F1 Testing 2012 - Week 1, Jerez

englishpremier · 20 Feb 2012 at 17:27

Glaucus said:
Now we know if you miss testing, you can do a private test. This changes things.

Except we knew this all along. You can also trade testing for more wind tunnel time.

arknor · 20 Feb 2012 at 17:46

englishpremier said:
Except we knew this all along. You can also trade testing for more wind tunnel time.

its only straight line testing you can swap for wind tunnel time i think

englishpremier · 20 Feb 2012 at 18:02

Yes true - I stand corrected

arknor · 20 Feb 2012 at 18:07

Shimmy · 20 Feb 2012 at 18:09

sunama said:
The amount of attention that this car is getting and the efforts which Merc are making to hide their car - if this car is anything less than 1s/lap faster than the RBR, it will be a huge let down.

Behave.

I'll be impressed if it evens keeps pace with RBR.

TaKeN · 20 Feb 2012 at 18:30

Interesting front wing/nose going on there!

Mr Men · 20 Feb 2012 at 18:37

don't look anything exciting to me, and Schumacher will hold them back anyway

TaKeN · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:16

Anything interests me though

arknor · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:18

Mr Men said:
don't look anything exciting to me, and Schumacher will hold them back anyway

looks a lot more compact than ferrari

haterz gonna hate i guess

Kerming · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:20

Another ugly edition.....

arknor · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:22

all cars are ugly since 1998 imo

Glaucus · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:23

arknor said:
looks a lot more compact than ferrari
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haterz gonna hate i guess[/QUOTE]

Don't suppose you fancy lining all the cars up like that, do you. Be interesting to see rbr compared to merc. Very Williams esq empty rear.

PinkFloyd · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:24

Impressively tight at the back. Hope it works out a good car!

Skeeter · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:30

Looks like they have gone as far forward as possible with the exhaust.

arknor · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:43

Glaucus said:
Don't suppose you fancy lining all the cars up like that, do you. Be interesting to see rbr compared to merc. Very Williams esq empty rear.

dont think i can find a similar RBR image.

found a pretty close matching angle of mclaren

Glaucus · 20 Feb 2012 at 21:05

Just noticed what odd shape that front wing is.

Shimmy · 20 Feb 2012 at 21:11

Glaucus said:
Just noticed what odd shape that front wing is.

Ignore the right part of the front wing, it's a car door

arknor · 20 Feb 2012 at 21:14

its still an odd shape it curves the oposite way to the mclarens

Glaucus · 20 Feb 2012 at 21:22

I'm not talking about car door.

It's massively wide. And flares out towards wheels on the back edge. It's looks a lot closer to the wheels than the mclarens.

Actually scrap that, it's the mclarens with the odd rectangle wing.

Shimmy · 20 Feb 2012 at 21:24

arknor said:
its still an odd shape it curves the oposite way to the mclarens

If anything it's McLaren's front wing shape that is different from most of the field, Ferrari and RBR both shape the way the Mercedes does.

Note I'm saying the shape, not the proposed 'W duct'

Glaucus said:
I'm not talking about car door.

It's massively wide. And flares out towards wheels on the back edge. It's looks a lot closer to the wheels than the mclarens and I imagine any other car on the grid.

Ah yeah, definitely wide.

The Ferrari pictured above seems to have the wing just as close to the wheels though?