F1 Testing 2012 - Week 3, Barcelona

Glaucus · 1 Mar 2012 at 15:00

What caused the infamous Michelin pull out from USA Gp. Was that something tyres produced in a second factory wouldn't of had issues. Or was it simply poor design.

Skeeter · 1 Mar 2012 at 15:02

I think it was just that the design of the michelin tyres was flawed.

God that race was a farce. I was really annoyed that Minardi and Jordan stayed out.

Mr Men · 1 Mar 2012 at 15:47

Good day for Ferrari so far, seems they are maybe not out of it, as many seemed to think

Duke · 1 Mar 2012 at 16:07

Day 1 times

Code:

[b]Pos	Driver		Team		Time			Laps[/b]
1 	Grosjean	Lotus	 	1m23.252s		73
2 	Button		McLaren	 	1m23.510s  +0.258	64
3 	Perez		Sauber	 	1m23.820s  +0.568	118
4 	Webber		Red Bull	1m23.830s  +0.578	102
5 	Rosberg		Mercedes	1m23.992s  +0.740	128
6 	Vergne		Toro Rosso	1m24.216s  +0.964	113
7 	Di Resta	Force India	1m24.305s  +1.053	98
8 	Massa		Ferrari	 	1m24.318s  +1.066	105
9 	Petrov		Caterham	1m24.876s  +1.624	123
10 	Maldonado	Williams	1m25.587s  +2.335	58

Lotus just a tiny bit quicker than the best time last week here.

~Mike~ · 1 Mar 2012 at 16:15

Mercedes getting the laps in again.

Glaucus · 1 Mar 2012 at 16:30

Made me chuckle

Red Bull Racing Spy (@redbullf1spy)
01/03/2012 16:26
At testing they practice everything. Absolutely everything.

Skeeter · 1 Mar 2012 at 16:33

pingwing · 1 Mar 2012 at 17:30

Yay Caterham aren't quite bottom

(their jet boosters must be paying off)

Skeeter · 1 Mar 2012 at 17:47

This is the first day since testing began where caterham have been within 4 seconds of the top time. I hope its the start of an upwards trend

Shimmy · 1 Mar 2012 at 18:13

Another Adrian Newey innovation.

http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2012/0/938.html

Skeeter · 1 Mar 2012 at 18:35

People expected something like this to be developed. Can't see it making much difference though?

Glaucus · 1 Mar 2012 at 18:39

Yeah nothing new and rbr aren't the only ones.

It's thought McLaren are using it to try and close the diffuser off, which is far more interesting.

Mr Jack · 1 Mar 2012 at 18:46

Why was there so little running from Button today?

Nismo · 1 Mar 2012 at 20:32

Mr Jack said:
Why was there so little running from Button today?

I read that they were using today and tomorrow to do setup work they wouldn't normally have time for on a GP weekend, to understand the car deeper and therefore it probably took more time than usual to do the changes.

Certainly nothing to suggest anything was wrong.

Shimmy · 1 Mar 2012 at 22:20

Malaysia spec cooling?

Skeeter · 1 Mar 2012 at 22:24

That's one hell of a vent

Kerming · 1 Mar 2012 at 22:31

Skeeter said:
That's one hell of a vent

thats no vent............ more like a jet lol

............ oh btw Marussia has delayed their launch after the car failed the crash test.

^^ as if anybody cares..

Irish_Tom · 2 Mar 2012 at 08:04

Kerming said:
............ oh btw Marussia has delayed their launch after the car failed the crash test.

^^ as if anybody cares..

Who?

arknor · 2 Mar 2012 at 08:27

Shimmy said:
Malaysia spec cooling?

lol that car is going to be one hell of a turd, merc lost tons of pace last year everytime they used gills around the exhausts.

they were only ever quick at the circuits where it was cool enough that they didnt need gills.

Skeeter · 2 Mar 2012 at 08:34

But everyone runs gills in Malaysia...