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Boredguy

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Watching some of the coverage yesterday, the new Ferrari engine was louder then either the 2015 Sauber when it was pottering around the track, or the Toro Rosso.

 

We should hear the difference more in Qualifying when they are not worried about using the MGU-H to recharge the battery so most of the gases can go via the wastegate.

Boredguy

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Lovely tweet from Renault team after their car caused a red flag after lunch

 

Renault Sport F1 @RenaultSportF1

 

From our own special analysis (no tech. person involved), we think the car tried to tweet, realised it couldn't & reverted to smoke signals.

Who says teams don't have a sense of humour :p

sonofsanta

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Who says teams don't have a sense of humour :p

 

The Lotus F1 tweets were always delightfully anarchic. Glad to see they've not been reined in by the corporate machine :)

 

I do like the Renault line up this year. Shame the car is probably not going to be up to much :/

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Watching some of the coverage yesterday, the new Ferrari engine was louder then either the 2015 Sauber when it was pottering around the track, or the Toro Rosso.

 

We should hear the difference more in Qualifying when they are not worried about using the MGU-H to recharge the battery so most of the gases can go via the wastegate.

 

I really don't think you'll be tell. If no one had said anything, would you even think they are louder? I doubt it. It's a failed attempt really, like the trumpet exhaust they merc trailed last year.

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Well at least they are not bottom of the time sheets so far today.. Alonso was slower on the Soft tyres than Palmer (before the turbo decided to have a late lunch)

 

Actually the Honda hasn't been too bad either day so far.... hope they do some speed runs this afternoon instead of constant speed aero that they have focused on so far.

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Well at least they are not bottom of the time sheets so far today.. Alonso was slower on the Soft tyres than Palmer (before the turbo decided to have a late lunch)

 

Actually the Honda hasn't been too bad either day so far.... hope they do some speed runs this afternoon instead of constant speed aero that they have focused on so far.

Typical, now he posts a 1:26.082 to jump ahead of the Renault and go 8th.

Boredguy

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23rd Feb, 15:02 Laps completed:

Rosberg, 128

Alonso, 100

Verstappen, 91

Ricciardo, 96

Bottas, 94

Ericsson, 80

Vettel, 77

Perez, 65

Wehrlein, 46

Gutierrez, 44

Palmer, 42

timbo343

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Those mercs are definitely putting some laps in this year. Not as many as last year but just goes to show how reliable their car is. A part of me thinks they are sandbagging at the moment.
timbo343

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Just watching Testing Uncut and Roman looks very relaxed at HAAS. Fingers crossed he can mature in that team. He was becoming good at the end of last season. Edited by timbo343
Boredguy

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Hulkenberg is flying today, isn't he?

He was on a 3 lap run with a less fuel than others, but it at least showed some speed out of the Force India, as it was only a few tenths off Seb's time on Tuesday on the Ultra soft.

 

Hopefully next week we might see more realistic times from the teams

sonofsanta

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I've been sat with the Autosport feed running since I got in this morning. Headline news so far is that the Merc put on some SOFT tyres!!!

 

Yeah, and went 0.7 seconds faster than anyone else has managed on them so far. Yowch.

timbo343

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What i find amazing is, Merc are sharing the car between drivers so they are using 1 car and 1 engine and putting in nearly 200 miles per day. I'm sure Ted from Teds Notebook said that from testing part 1, they could've completed 5 GPs of the circuit with that one car. That's immense and the car is outperforming the drivers now.
Boredguy

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It was also a case that Lewis complained of being sore after the first day due to the amount of running they got in, so to make sure both drivers were not too broken before the race to split the running during the day... and yep all of Test 1 with 1 engine and 1 chassis and around 10* race distances easily. Then again there is plans for the Merc powered teams to only have 4 units for the entire season this year instead of the 5 they could use as it's over 20 races.

 

[Edit]* Originally put 5, but reviewing information from Sky, it was actually the equivalent to 10 races around Spain.[/edit]

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Yeah, and went 0.7 seconds faster than anyone else has managed on them so far. Yowch.

 

he was 0.2 seconds slower than Vettel last week on the Ultra soft. Today only Alonso has been on the softs so no real comparison as they have been working on PU delivery

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