F1 Testing 2014: Week 1 Jerez

[JHeaton]

Ooh, messy.

Guess we'll have to rely on Vergne alone for our entertainment now, seeing as nobody else can seem to make it back out of the pit lane.

 

[Nimzicki]

Ah balls.

 

[Flibster]

Doh, didn't he do that last year as well?

Last year was a brake failure and a head on impact.

Strangely, this looks pretty head on too.

 

[smr]

11:49 Looks like a fair bit of damage on the W05. The course car and marshals are cleaning the circuit well before Turn 1 too.

11:46 Scratch that - it seems Hamilton is in the Turn 1 barriers. Marshals are picking up bodywork on the main straight.


Hammy's binned it.

 

[GravyMonster]

The front wing main plane is sitting on the straight leading to the accident, so it sounds like a front wing failure.

 

[XeNoN89]

Front wing failure

 

[wallofsound]

Ouch, let's hope they can get the car fixed tonight

 

[GravyMonster]

Other angle:

 

[Shimmy]

^ Looks like he was surfing on that front wing for a while.

 

[gord]

Doh, the only car that did work..

 

[Nismo]

That's one way to improve the 2014 noses

Shame for Merc, no doubt that's end of the day for them. Only consolation is that other teams probably won't get much done either.

 

[Nick1881]

Ouch, looks like he was just a passenger, front wing probably got wedged.

 

[drunkenmaster]

This is why they start off at 1:35 laps and build up

If he went out and did a 1:18 pushing the car straight off, could have been a much worse crash somewhere else on the track.

Not a great indication for failure though, breaking off without pushing too hard? Hopefully he tapped it going over a corner or something and it's not a too weak connection from wing to nose.

 

[DiCe!]

Bit of T-Cut should sort that right out.

 

[JoeF1]

^ I would be soiling everywhere wing surfing.

Hope they get it fixed !

 

[drunkenmaster]

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/691

jesus that pic of the Ferrari, it really is just awful looking. Want to see some detailed pics, can't quite work out why the Merc has the shorter nose that doesn't stick out beyond the wing... but doesn't seem to have such a steep/terrible looking nose.

 

[englishpremier]

What is it Sauber are testing? The car has been out just twice.

Can't imagine they've any data they couldn't have got from driving the car around their factory car park.

 

[drunkenmaster]

What is it Sauber are testing? The car has been out just twice.

Can't imagine they've any data they couldn't have got from driving the car around their factory car park.

Plenty of cars are literally getting part way down the pitlane and going back in. They might go out, and find the 6th gear isn't working, or DRS isn't opening, or kers isn't working, or the rear brakes aren't working, or the readouts on the wheel are not working or useless. There is like 1000 things that can go wrong, or not work well.

It's really a case of build car, think it's done as it should be, send it out, go between 3 metres and 3miles and find a dozen things not doing what they should, go back in and look at them, think you fix them, go out again and they didn't fix it, made 3 new problems, or made the initial problem worse.

 

[deuse]

No McLaren today then! wtf is going on.

 

[leaskovski]

No McLaren today then! wtf is going on.

"McLaren: 'hydraulic and electrical installation issues'. Everything (car, engine, g'box) won't go together and start. Unlikely to run today"

Sky sports twitter.

Ouch!