F1 Testing 2016: Week 1 Barcelona (22nd - 25th)

drunkenmaster said:
You haven't heard because the media isn't focusing on it. Tokens spent by Ferrari/Merc/Renault last year.... all of them. Come the end of 2016, tokens spent by Ferrari, Merc, Renault and Honda... all of them.

The focus is on Honda because the media has it that way, nothing more or less. They have tokens, they use them, they have the same number of tokens. honda can't and won't make more changes than the other teams. Ferrari increased the size of their turbo and compressor, moved the location of the compressor and made many other changes. Did that stop that Ferrari running well in 2015 testing? Merc brough variable intake valves, a fairly big step in terms of layout of the top of the engine, they increased the size of their compressor last year. They've supposedly increased the size of the compressor again this year.
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Of course everyone's going to use their tokens, hence the token process in the first place...

The Ferrari re-design last year was well documented, as was their acquisition of Mercedes PU staff.

And news just emerges that Honda are using different spec engines for testing before deciding on their race engine, still think their testing priorities are the same as Ferrari and Mercedes?
 
smr said:
I think it's safe to assume that McLaren have had to make the most radical changes - the car for the first time has been utterly and 100 percent led by Peter Prodromou so there are a raft of changes to the nose/FW/rear wing and everything else in between on the surface of the car. The innards were in a complete mess as well, they've increased the size of the turbo yet shrunk the size zero concept when reliability was a massive problem last year, that's a fair chunk of R&D.

The McLaren is also running a ton more rake than last year, affecting the gearbox, suspension and aero.

I think that Merc are polishing an already sorted concept, yes the turbo may be bigger but the changes they'll have made will be more refinements rather than the rebuilding which McLaren and Honda have had to go about.
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Again, Honda themselves keep saying they are small changes, they haven't had a large shift in concept. A bigger compressor is a bigger compressor, you don't go into CAD and just drag the old compressor to make it bigger. A bigger compressor means the engine will work differently, the mgu-h/turbine will have a different load, the engine needs to work with more air or the mgu-h has to be able to take more power out of it. There is no 'small change' in making a bigger compressor. A bigger compressor is a NEW compressor and that has to be tested with every part of the engine, changes how the engine works in terms of balance, performance, timing and requires new engine mapping to get the best out of it.

When you make a refinement and don't bother testing it properly... you end up with a piston you figured would be okay but actually ruined the first 4-5 months of the season for the Renault teams.

Merc got smaller also, Merc has changed their cooling concept pretty radically.

EDIT:- three teams have changed engine and at very short notice, another is brand new, it's not remotely safe to suggest that Mclaren have made the most radical changes, in fact it's naive.
 
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Shimmy said:
Of course everyone's going to use their tokens, hence the token process in the first place...

The Ferrari re-design last year was well documented, as was their acquisition of Mercedes PU staff.

And news just emerges that Honda are using different spec engines for testing before deciding on their race engine, still think their testing priorities are the same as Ferrari and Mercedes?
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I don't recall saying their testing priorities were the same?

Though afaik the homologation has to be done by Feb 28th, so the chances of them playing around with engines sounds like a paddock rumour that Ted doesn't understand is most likely inaccurate. That rumour has been around for a couple of weeks in reality and most people don't believe it precisely because the homologation date is before the second test.
 
148 laps and counting for Hamilton. The 157 record is basically the only one Rosberg still has, and Hamilton looks set to take that too :p
 
Lap Count

Lap count:

Hamilton, 156
Ericsson, 88
Ricciardo, 87
Button, 84
Bottas, 80
Vettel, 69
Celis, 58
Sainz, 55
Wehrlein, 54
Palmer, 37
Grosjean, 31


:)
 
Ted notebook at 21:15 seems a bit late,

Looks like a huge leap forward for McLaren. Even if it's only middle of the pack, still some decent mileage. Or set with softs.
 
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Teds Notebook won't be live. It will be an edit of a couple of points throughout the day. I'd bet on half being from the lunch break and half from just as the day ends.
 
Ferrari did 100km (filming day) on Sunday so may explain why they didn't push to hard to get laps on the board today.
 
That's an imposing first day from Mercedes. Yeah, Vettel got the glory run but I doubt anyone at Mercedes cares, it's laps that count at this stage. McLaren must be very happy just to land a solid day of testing.
 
Serious mileage by Merc again. McLaren did well with over 80 laps on what is pretty much a new engine out of the box.
 
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