He seriously did ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL that in one day??? Is that possible??? An 11 km swim, yeah. Dont know about squeezing the rest in the same day. If so, that is truely amazing and im jealous!!
Barcelona Day 1 1 Perez Sauber 1m21.176s 2 Webber Red Bull 1m22.544s +1.368 3 Button McLaren 1m22.910s +1.734 4 Petrov Renault 1m22.937s +1.761 5 Heidfeld Renault 1m24.735s +3.559 6 Di Resta Force India 1m25.039s +3.863 7 Valsecchi Lotus 1m25.406s +4.230 8 Buemi Toro Rosso 1m26.004s +4.828 9 Hulkenberg Force India 1m26.030s +4.854 10 Razia Lotus 1m26.723s +5.547 11 D'Ambrosio Virgin 1m32.060s +10.884
Barcelona Day 2 1 Vettel Red Bull 1m21.865s 2 Buemi Toro Rosso 1m22.396s +0.531 3 Petrov Renault 1m22.670s +0.805 4 Hamilton McLaren 1m22.888s +1.023 5 Massa Ferrari 1m23.324s +1.459 6 Di Resta Force India 1m24.334s +2.469 7 Kobayashi Sauber 1m24.436s +2.571 8 Rosberg Mercedes 1m25.807s +3.942 9 Trulli Lotus 1m26.090s +4.225 10 Maldonado Williams 1m26.989s +5.124 11 D'Ambrosio Virgin 1m28.982s +7.117
Barcelona Day 3 1 S. Perez Sauber 1:21.761 - 95 2 F. Massa Ferrari 1:22.092 +0.331 132 3 M. Webber Red Bull 1:22.466 +0.705 97 4 R. Barrichello Williams 1:22.637 +0.876 105 5 M. Schumacher Mercedes 1:22.892 +1.131 89 6 N. Heidfeld Renault 1:23.541 +1.780 32 7 H. Kovalainen Lotus 1:23.990 +2.229 40 8 V. Petrov Renault 1:24.233 +2.472 24 9 A. Sutil Force India 1:24.334 +2.573 108 10 J. Alguersuari Toro Rosso 1:24.779 +3.018 107 11 J. d'Ambrosio Marussia Virgin 1:27.336 +5.575 96 12 J. Trulli Lotus 1:34.485 +12.724 6
Barcelona Day 4 1 Schumacher Mercedes 1m21.249s 2 Alonso Ferrari 1m21.614s +0.365 3 Rosberg Mercedes 1m21.788s +0.539 4 Heidfeld Renault 1m22.073s +0.824 5 Barrichello Williams 1m22.233s +0.984 6 Kobayashi Sauber 1m22.315s +1.066 7 Alguersuari Toro Rosso 1m22.675s +1.426 8 Vettel Red Bull 1m22.933s +1.684 9 Kovalainen Lotus 1m23.437s +2.188 10 Di Resta Force India 1m23.653s +2.404 11 Sutil Force India 1m23.921s +2.672 12 Maldonado Williams 1m24.108s +2.859 13 Button McLaren 1m25.837s +4.588 14 D'Ambrosio Virgin 1m27.375s +6.126
Well....as it turns out THIS was the result of the last day of testing before Melbourne. It was wet... 1 Rosberg Mercedes 1m43.814s 2 Maldonado Williams 1m44.333s +0.519 3 Hamilton McLaren 1m44.560s +0.746 ........and yes...that's it!
From James Allen The final day of pre season testing was very wet, as predicted, giving teams the chance to sample Pirellis wet weather tyres, but gaining little other useful data. Thats it now for testing until after December- following the final race in Brazil. The feeling is that Red Bull has the edge going into the first race, with Ferrari close behind and Mercedes came through the ranks to close up quite a bit of the second deficit they had to the front runners at the final test. Nico Rosberg ends the week with a positive frame of mind after the improvement shown by the update package this week. We are on the up for sure, and all credit to the team for getting the upgrades on the car and, most importantly, to see that they are working as expected, he said. McLaren have work still to do, after another difficult week, while Renault leads the midfield runners, who are all pretty close together and the pecking order will be interesting to see in Melbourne and Sepang. From Pirellis point of view the testing has now covered almost 100,000 miles and lasted seven months since they first turned a wheel at a private test. According to them Ferrari has covered the greatest mileage with 5244 kilometres covered over the course of the 15 days running, then Mercedes (4483), Red Bull (4407), Sauber (4099), Williams (3894), McLaren (3844), Force India (3745), Toro Rosso (3737), Lotus Renault (3700), Virgin (3361) Lotus (2403) and HRT (1949). Sauber did the biggest mileage of this final week, which was hastily put together after the cancellation of the Bahrain test and GP. Fernando Alonso has driven the most distance on Pirelli tyres with a total of 2826 kilometres, ahead of Michael Schumacher (2474), Felipe Massa (2417), Mark Webber (2373), Rubens Barrichello (2198) and Sergio Perez (2129), said a Pirelli statement. Pirellis Paul Hembery was on the defensive this week after some comments from drivers about the dry and wet tyres, but he stuck to his line that their tyres will make for more exciting racing, Pirelli will respond to the requests from the FOTA and we can do all the modifications necessary, he said. But for the choice of tyre they must not last more than 30 laps. From our calculations we are looking at between 2 and 4 pit stops. Just think what an advantage it will be to be able to do one pit stop less (than your rival). A point I was making in my post at the end of the last Barcelona test. Meanwhile HRT did not run its new car today, due to problems with parts stuck in customs, which all sounds very odd. So they will have to start from zero in Melbourne. Gazzetta dello Sport spoke to Tonio Liuzzi and has reported that the teams budget for the season is between 45-50 million, a similar budget to Virgin Racing, but which is still a fortune to compete at the back.
More James Allen Michael Schumacher at the wheel of the updated Mercedes set the fastest time of the test so far with 1m21.268s. The team has been bringing the new update parts to the car in stages this week with exhausts and various aerodynamic parts, including a new front wing, being added until today it ran in final spec for the first time. The results looked pretty good, not only in terms of headline speed but also on longer runs, We have been developing the car step-by-step this week with new parts arriving each day, said Schumacher. So our focus today has been on understanding how to get the best from the car now that it is pretty much in its final configuration for the first time. The car has behaved as we expected and its been a very productive day. Red Bull finished their winter test programme without putting their cards on the table in terms of outright speed, not bothering to do a full qualifying simulation. The same is true of Ferrari. We will have to wait until Saturday in Melbourne
Great news........(if you're a Red Bull fan) http://www.planetf1.com/editorial/6813295/PF1-s-Team-By-Team-Winter-Review Review of pre season testing.
SOOOOOOOOOO...now you know... The rear wing can be used at any time in practice and qualifying. But Whiting spells out how the system will work in the race to allow a following car to use his rear wing to attempt a pass, Proximity to the car in front will be detected before the straight on which the wing may be activated, he writes. If the car behind is less than one second behind (as judged by the installed timing loops in the track) the driver will be told that his system is armed, however, he may only use it when he reaches the designated point on the following straight. This point is likely to be 600 metres before the braking point for the following corner, this may however be adjusted according to data gathered during testing and practice. There will be marks (lines) on the track to show the area where proximity is being detected and a line across the track at the point where the drivers whose system is armed may deploy it. Furthermore, the television broadcasters will be sent a signal each time a system is armed and this will be displayed to the viewers. Race control is keen not to be seen as interfering too much in the outcome of a battle or a race. This is sensitive ground and interestingly Whiting says that the idea was a proposal the teams made to the FIA spelling out whose bright idea this was in the first place, perhaps in case it doesnt work so well. Frankly it is unlikely to work all that well in Melbourne as the zone in question is the pits straight which isnt very long and has a difficult corner to overtake into at the end of it. We will get a much better idea in Malaysia with its long straights, topped and tailed by slow corners. From the simulation work done so far it appears that the difference between a car using the wing and one not using it is likely to be in the region of 10-12km/h at the end of the straight. He adds that that the distance over which the Drag Reduction System (DRS) may be used is going to be tuned with the intention of assisting the following driver, not guaranteeing him an overtaking manoeuvre. Some software has been written to allow drivers to over ride the system in the event of a failure, but Whiting says the FIA will heavily punish a team if they do that when not authorised to do so. They may use part of a free practice session in Melbourne to evaluate the system. He also adds a final note that scrutineers will be applying more stringent load/deflection tests on the front wing and the front of the floor, than last year. It will be very interesting to see how much chatter there is about that. McLaren was very publicly playing with a load sensing device in Barcelona, measuring the front wing flex. If you can make the wing flex, as Red Bull did last season, there are massive gains to be had.
http://www.markwebber.com/off-the-track-news/an-audience-with-mark-webber-in-aid-of-australian-flood-relief/ This would be worth going to.
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