F1 Testing 2014: Week 3 Bahrain

[Shimmy]

Thursday 27th February - Sunday 2nd March

Live Timing Links:
http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/704
http://www.f1today.net/en/live/2014/03/02/sakhir
http://grandprix247.com/live-timing-2/

Running order:


Day 1 Times:


Day 2 Times:


Day 3 Times:


Day 4 Times:


Lap record: Pedro de la Rosa - 1:31.447 (McLaren; 2005)

2013 pole: Nico Rosberg - 1:32.330 (Mercedes)

2014 Bahrain Test 1 Fastest lap: Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 1:33.283, New Soft tyres, Day Four

Weather forecast, predictably sunny:



Total laps by each team after 2 tests.
Mercedes - 624
McLaren - 541
Ferrari - 538
Williams - 498
Sauber - 403
Force India - 359
Caterham - 329
Toro Rosso - 193
Red Bull - 137
Lotus - 111
Marussia - 59

Total laps by each engine manufacturer after 2 tests.
Mercedes - 2002
Ferrari - 1000
Renault - 770

Approximate kilometres by each team after 2 tests.
Mercedes - 2935 km
McLaren - 2564 km
Ferrari - 2544 km
Williams - 2403 km
Sauber - 1926 km
Force India - 1715 km
Caterham - 1621 km
Toro Rosso - 943km
Red Bull - 684 km
Lotus - 568 km
Marussia - 277 km

Approximate kilometres by each engine manufacturer after 2 tests.
Mercedes - 9618 km
Ferrari - 4747 km
Renault - 3816 km

 

[wallofsound]

Thanks - can't wait. Hopefully all teams reliability will be getting close to sorted so we can get a bit better ideas of everyone relative speed.

 

[englishpremier]

When does this one start? I can't see any dates mentioned.

 

[Shimmy]

4 days, starting tomorrow.
I'll add it to the OP.

 

[leaskovski]

Finally! Now we are going to see some proper laptimes that we can actually start to compare a bit.

 

[Duke]

Thanks

 

[Skeeter]

Finally! Now we are going to see some proper laptimes that we can actually start to compare a bit.

Unless of course <insert whoever's postings favourate driver> isn't doing well, in which case "omg its just testing, sandbagging, nobody knows, useless speculating!!!!!111"

 

[Flibster]

We're going to start seeing the Australia packages this week. I think McLaren are definitely sending theirs.

It should be a good week for tech updates and starting to get the engines at their peak. They need to start running them there as they need to find out how they wear and if they'll even work at 15'000 RPM. May have a few failures too.

 

[Skeeter]

Should be some good Ted bits too

 

[Tweaker]

Are we likely to see nose changes at the test now that teams have had a chance to see the other designs?

 

[leaskovski]

Are Williams going to unveil their new sponsor tomorrow, or is that in Aus?

 

[Shimmy]

Are Williams going to unveil their new sponsor tomorrow, or is that in Aus?

Do you mean livery? They've already announced sponsors.

 

[this_is_gav]

They need to start running them there as they need to find out how they wear and if they'll even work at 15'000 RPM.

I doubt the rev limit will cause issues - the core engine it the bit they know about best. I doubt we'll see many through the season either. More likely we'll have "electrical issues" or a turbo failure. I don't think anyone had an outright engine failure so far, even those cars overheating. We've had a few overheating issues (some leading to fires under the cover), but I don't think we've had large chunks of metal ending up where they shouldn't be.

Are we likely to see nose changes at the test now that teams have had a chance to see the other designs?

Highly unlikely to anything more than minor tweaks. I don't think there's any outlandish designs (only Renault, and apparently Toro Rosso (so presumably others too) had considered that anyway.

More to the point, if any team saw a design and clicked their fingers and said "bah, why didn't we think of that?", it would be too early to make changes, as you'd normally have to make tweaks to a lot of the car behind the nose. There is no one nose better than another, just a nose that works best for your car.

 

[~Mike~]

 

[leaskovski]

Do you mean livery? They've already announced sponsors.

Yeah, and new title sponsor

 

[smr]

Alternating days for Mclaren, cool cool

 

[this_is_gav]

Yeah, and new title sponsor

Livery (and title sponsor (Martini)) are being revealed on the 6th March I think it is.

There is a dodgy photo supposedly from a filming day out there somewhere, though whether it's genuine or not was still up for debate the last I saw.

 

[leaskovski]

Hmm, got a link to that?

The only place I have found it, is this...

http://forums.autosport.com/topic/191177-williams-fw36/page-6#entry6592385

I guess the 6th of March is probably true actually being that boozing in the Middle East isn't a big thing, so announcing it there, probably wouldnt be that great.

 

[this_is_gav]

The only place I have found it, is this...

http://forums.autosport.com/topic/191177-williams-fw36/page-6#entry6592385

Yup, that's the one I saw, and it wasn't being portrayed as a mock-up, but as an actual photo. Oh well, someone's mistranslated somewhere along the line either way! The livery certainly could have looked better than that, but it's not too bad.

Or did you mean the date? I've no idea where I saw the date now. Hmm.

 

[Skeeter]

That livery, mock up or genuine, looks awful.