F1 Testing 2015: Week 1 Jerez
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I think after the test in Abu Dhabi a lot of people were fearing of more of the same, so considering that it's been a good start so far, fingers crossed it continues like this.
all going to plan so far.That's a monkey bench, not a seat.
After a quiet start of their own, Williams are starting to string some laps together with Valtteri Bottas and the Finn has actually now joined Nico Rosberg in breaking the 1:24 barrier with a lap of 1:23.906
Williams were exceptionally quick on the straights last year, if they have revised their aero for the corners they could be brilliant this year.
Williams were exceptionally quick on the straights last year, if they have revised their aero for the corners they could be brilliant this year.
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rofl dong pics are not allowed
anyway good to see vettle doing something, and deus I've just noticed your sig, looks like it reads 'jewish amilton.com'
anyway good to see vettle doing something, and deus I've just noticed your sig, looks like it reads 'jewish amilton.com'
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I remember that last year some of the teams considered the sector one or two timing loop to be the start finish line for measuring lap times to help hide their pace. Is there any sign of that happening again?
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Well at this point of the day it's Ferrari + Renault + Honda with 152 laps vs Mercedes with 187 laps.
Merc 187 laps
Ferrari 71
Renault 75
Honda 6
This is why I thought Honda would struggle, they are having technical niggles, more so than any other engine, not a surprise, highly predictable even if they come back and have good days they have already clearly had a day where the next best engine has completed 10 times as many laps, Mercedes have complete 30 times as many laps.
Then, no second car just makes it harder. This is with Lotus not having arrived yet and so most likely not getting any testing done today but should have 3 days and no FI at Jerez at all.
Mercedes have got 30 times the running done in a single day with only two of the Mercedes teams on show.
Not doing a deal with Caterham or Marussia to get a second team running with Honda engines putting in laps not just in preseason but throughout 20 races over the year with two cars I think will prevent Honda being competitive for a couple of years at least. With double the testing(or maybe more, conservative car with bigger cooling will likely do more laps than a higher end more complex car like Caterham did WAY more laps than RBR) they would have had a far far better chance of improving the engine faster both throughout testing, throughout the year and having a better idea of where to develop next years engine.
Merc 187 laps
Ferrari 71
Renault 75
Honda 6
This is why I thought Honda would struggle, they are having technical niggles, more so than any other engine, not a surprise, highly predictable even if they come back and have good days they have already clearly had a day where the next best engine has completed 10 times as many laps, Mercedes have complete 30 times as many laps.
Then, no second car just makes it harder. This is with Lotus not having arrived yet and so most likely not getting any testing done today but should have 3 days and no FI at Jerez at all.
Mercedes have got 30 times the running done in a single day with only two of the Mercedes teams on show.
Not doing a deal with Caterham or Marussia to get a second team running with Honda engines putting in laps not just in preseason but throughout 20 races over the year with two cars I think will prevent Honda being competitive for a couple of years at least. With double the testing(or maybe more, conservative car with bigger cooling will likely do more laps than a higher end more complex car like Caterham did WAY more laps than RBR) they would have had a far far better chance of improving the engine faster both throughout testing, throughout the year and having a better idea of where to develop next years engine.