F1 Testing 2015: Week 2 Barcelona (19th - 22nd)

In the live commentary by Autosport they asked a few people who saw the crash.

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Actual quote here, rather than my miserable failure to remember it
Autosport said:
14:41 BEN ANDERSON has found some eye-witnesses to the Wolff/Nasr crash. From what we can ascertain, Wolff was on an out-lap, backed off to make space for Nasr, but contact was made as the Sauber moved across to take the corner, pitching both off.
 
Lol. 57 minutes into testing and were already almost faster than the fastest race lap last year! Why does anyone think F1 needs more power? These cars are going to be the fastest F1 has ever had by mid season!

Seems you think F1 started last season if you think these cars are going to be the fastest F1 has ever had.
 
Seems you think F1 started last season if you think these cars are going to be the fastest F1 has ever had.

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Interesting bit of rumour - http://f1-insider.com/formel-1-mclaren-will-ferrari-kopieren/

Dennis wants to copy Ferrari. Background: The Brit believes that the Scuderia uses the US-team’s Haas staff in order to get more than the per team allowed wind tunnel hours. How does it work? By infiltrating their people into race car builder and using their wind tunnel hours also for their own purposes.


And lots of pics from today - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1vVNt-Z7wcsaFMzVTVsbEJjTEE&usp=sharing
 
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Lol, I assume Mr Men was quoting me again?

Interesting thing about Ferrari. I can't see how it's true though, surely wind tunnel hours are defined as the amount of time a 60% or less scale model of a teams F1 car spends in a wind tunnel, regardless of who's tunnel that is or who's staff are running it? Otherwise F1 teams would be outsourcing wind tunnel work to everyone and their grandmother?
 
So it seems that Rosberg is out despite his neck problems, and Alonso has managed 3 laps already, so at least the McLaren is able to do some laps whilst they sort out the MGuk problem.

Re McLaren ditching the Honda power unit and going back to Mercedes. I don't really know where to begin with that. As simple as popping down to Halfords and swapping them out, I presume. :confused:
'Just shove that Honda PU on eBay, and Bill, nip down to the shops and pick us up a Mercedes 2015 PU, cheers'.
 
Rosberg has just turned up the wick on the Mercedes, for all those doubters they are still going to be highly competitive, perhaps just without the massive margin to the other teams.
 
So it seems that Rosberg is out despite his neck problems, and Alonso has managed 3 laps already, so at least the McLaren is able to do some laps whilst they sort out the MGuk problem.

Re McLaren ditching the Honda power unit and going back to Mercedes. I don't really know where to begin with that. As simple as popping down to Halfords and swapping them out, I presume. :confused:
'Just shove that Honda PU on eBay, and Bill, nip down to the shops and pick us up a Mercedes 2015 PU, cheers'.

It astounds me that people even come up with these ideas.....its not like the entire car has been designed around the Honda either....
 
Yes, look at them, one they were the dominant team of the previous 4 years and instead only won races when Merc beat themselves and were poor in multiple races. They went from dominant first to also rans, lucky to get a few wins and often fighting in the middle of the pack... that is a big warning not some kind of positive sign for Mclaren. Mclaren didn't end 2014 anywhere near as strong as RBR finished 2013, they didn't have the most advanced, fastest car on the grid.

Likewise, who had 3 other teams doing HUNDREDS of extra laps for Renault when RBR couldn't. Again I'll break out the first test stat last year, RBR did 21 laps, Renault did 150, with a similar result at both the second and third test. Where do you think RBR would be if Renault got 1/10th of the data/testing/running they did, if they found 1/10th of the problems with the engine, and tried 1/10th less settings, engine maps, throughout testing last year? Because imagine that and then realise that the best team on the grid had a disastrous test with and were bailed out by the other teams helping them and that Mclaren have no one to bail them out... but also starting from a far far weaker less tested car than RBR did(not engine but packaging, aero, electronics, everything else).
My apologies, I was forgetting that the armchair experts in here are cleverer than mclaren or honda...
 
He does have a point. If McLaren don't do laps, Honda don't do laps, which wasn't the case last year when all the manufacturers had at least 3 teams running their engines.

Only supplying a single team is going to affect Honda's development in comparison to its rivals.
 
Lol, I assume Mr Men was quoting me again?

Interesting thing about Ferrari. I can't see how it's true though, surely wind tunnel hours are defined as the amount of time a 60% or less scale model of a teams F1 car spends in a wind tunnel, regardless of who's tunnel that is or who's staff are running it? Otherwise F1 teams would be outsourcing wind tunnel work to everyone and their grandmother?

I think the idea is that Haas use the same designs. So for example a front wing that they are working on might be identical to Ferrari's front wing. They test their copy of ferrari front wing and pass the data on. Sounds very easy to police though.
 
Looks like Hamilton is taking over again this afternoon...

"So, what's the plan for this afternoon, you ask? Well... it's #HAMmertime... #F1" tweeted with a pic of Lewis's helmet.

Bit surprised at that, I figured he'd come back tomorrow.
 
I think the idea is that Haas use the same designs. So for example a front wing that they are working on might be identical to Ferrari's front wing. They test their copy of ferrari front wing and pass the data on. Sounds very easy to police though.

I seem to remember that the last time technical information was passed between teams it didn't go to well...

Ferrari are well practiced in it though :p
 
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