F1 Testing 2014: Week 1 Jerez
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Here's a snap of Red Bull earlier 'cutting' and 'drilling' holes in to the bodywork of the RB10
I can't upload to YouTube atm but if anyone has an email address I can send a short clip of the Torro Rosso's engine woes from this morning, and they can host it, if there's any interest. Just post the email addy here.
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McLaren Mercedes With Jenson Button F1 Jerez Testing
Torro Rosso Renault with Jean-Éric Vergne - F1 Jerez Testing
Don't know if it's meant to be higher quality but hopefully good enough.
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Thank you! Try not to laugh too loud at the Torro Rosso
Mercedes development seems to be way ahead if it was just a sound test.
Seems like power is being delivered far more consistently in the Mercedes engine from the two clips. The Torro Rosso is trying to catch a breath the whole way through
That Toro Rosso sounds broken
It's crazy, isn't it? I do hope Renault sort their issues, and the Renault-powered team sort theirs. It would be bad to have them start too far behind the others. On the other hand, it does increase Marussia's chances of being the first of the newer teams to score a point.
Is this a case of a bad product from Renault though or are the teams second-guessing Renault? Presumably the engines have been tested extensively out of the cars so you have to assume it's either got a very small sweet spot that hasn't been found yet, or some teams are trying to be a bit too clever.
Nothing to do with the Engine or packaging from Renault as far as I understand (well the engine may well be inferior to the Mercedes engine)
, but moreover it's how Adrian Newey and his colleagues have gone about packing it into the RB10. Cooling and wiring issues predominantly I imagine.Thanks for all the feedback The_Abyss
Good having someone trackside to pick up on some of the finer details.
Do you get to wander around the paddock at all?
No worries
No paddock access unfortunately. A few of the teams in our hotel but they're split into day and night shifts so we can only grab a few minutes with them at the end of each day. Marussia chaps are funny - they seem to know they're on a hiding to nothing but are incessantly cheerful
The chaps from Pirelli are good value too - they seem quite happy with the 2014 tyre but just don't want to talk about last year - there's a feeling they just got stitched up.
Nothing to do with the Engine or packaging from Renault as far as I understand (well the engine may well be inferior to the Mercedes engine)
That would imply all the Renault teams are doing something wrong though, and I wouldn't have expected a smaller team like Toro Rosso ignore any advice Renault were giving them.
Will be interesting to see what the Lotus is like when it finally arrives.
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The McLaren bits that's everyones talking about look like like they would produce a load of drag. They're near vertical like an air brake.
As for the Renault engines, they would have been tested at load to destruction, so it's obviously an installation issue for the teams.
As for the Renault engines, they would have been tested at load to destruction, so it's obviously an installation issue for the teams.
But that's the beauty of it, they're only like that when the cars going slow, therefore the car rides higher and you don't care about drag, but you do care about downforce. When its running on the straight the downforce pushed the car to the floor and opens up the suspension allowing the air to pass through. So its a double bonus, more downforce when you want it and less downforce when you don't want it.