F1 Testing 2012 - Week 2, Barcelona

Mr Men said:
Yep and he was back out on mediums until a red flag, fair to say they were running a fair bit of fuel
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takes a few mins to put some fuel in the car....
if we want to read to much into testing times
Schumacher
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probbaly on hard tyres with a full tank of fuel , oh and AMUS is reporting the team didnt use DRS all day

looks alo better than the merc and ferrari and they have 2-3 days head start with the new car.
 
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Day 1 times

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[b]Pos  Driver         Team            Time                Laps[/b]
 1.  Vettel         Red Bull        1m23.265s           79
 2.  Hulkenberg     Force India     1m23.440s  +0.175   97
 3.  Hamilton       McLaren         1m23.590s  +0.325   114
 4.  Ricciardo      Toro Rosso      1m23.618s  +0.353   76
 5.  Alonso         Ferrari         1m24.100s  +0.835   75
 6.  Schumacher     Mercedes        1m24.150s  +0.885   51
 7.  Perez          Sauber          1m24.219s  +0.954   66
 8.  Senna          Williams        1m25.711s  +2.446   97
 9.  Kovalainen     Caterham        1m26.035s  +2.770   31
10.  Grosjean       Lotus           1m26.809s  +3.544    7
11.  Pic            Marussia        1m28.026s  +4.761   121
 
fanny said:
q3 is the only time you might really know
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Might?

Are you suggesting that drivers will actually go slow in qualifying, on purpose?

If you are, in all my years of watching F1, I have never seen or heard of a driver holding back in qualifying. Basically, an F1 driver's nature is such that he will attempt to go as fast as he can, so that he can qualify as high up the field as possible, so as to do best in the race.

I honestly cannot recall a single occassion where it came to light where a driver went slow, on purpose, in qualifying.

Vettel, Hamilton, Senna, Mansell...to name a few, all drive eye-balls out in qualifying.
MSc was so determined to get pole in Monaco 2006, that on his final lap, he parked his vehicle across a corner so that nobody else could set a faster time than him.
THOSE are the lengths that some drivers will goto, just to do well in qualifying.

Sandbagging in qualifying...I think not.
 
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sunama said:
Might?

Are you suggesting that drivers will actually go slow in qualifying, on purpose?
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might because a car may have technical or other random difficulties

of course it will be fairly obvious before then that every car is slower than the RB, anyway.

I think I may have contradicted myself there.
 
sunama said:
Might?

Are you suggesting that drivers will actually go slow in qualifying, on purpose?

If you are, in all my years of watching F1, I have never seen or heard of a driver holding back in qualifying. Basically, an F1 driver's nature is such that he will attempt to go as fast as he can, so that he can qualify as high up the field as possible, so as to do best in the race.

I honestly cannot recall a single occassion where it came to light where a driver went slow, on purpose, in qualifying.

Vettel, Hamilton, Senna, Mansell...to name a few, all drive eye-balls out in qualifying.
MSc was so determined to get pole in Monaco 2006, that on his final lap, he parked his vehicle across a corner so that nobody else could set a faster time than him.
THOSE are the lengths that some drivers will goto, just to do well in qualifying.

Sandbagging in qualifying...I think not.
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calm down dear!!
 
Hehehe. okay okay.

I think that we shall get a good indication of the true speed of the cars, in the final day of qualifying where some drivers may choose to go for some glory runs and boost the morale of the entire team (never underestimate the importance of morale).
 
sunama said:
Hehehe. okay okay.

I think that we shall get a good indication of the true speed of the cars, in the final day of qualifying where some drivers may choose to go for some glory runs and boost the morale of the entire team (never underestimate the importance of morale).
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Don't you mean testing? I think all drivers go for a glory run when qualifying (except those who stay in the pits saving tyres).
 
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