*** Winter Testing #2 - Barcelona ***

[Teppic]

Button goes fastest with a 1:27.989

EDIT - Scratch that. Now it's Jenson's time to get a laptime deleted.

Edited by Teppic on Thursday 19th February 10:11

[Sammo123]

RenOHH said:

Do they normally erect screens around a car when it comes in? Normally just in front of the garage if they're revealing parts of the car? Hope he's alright.

There's lots of stomach bugs etc going around at the moment so there's every chance he's just caught something!

[anonymous-user]

WTF is going on. First Kimi's 1m 27 is inexplicably wiped from the board, and now Button's 1m 27 lap has gone too!

[007 VXR]

Teppic said:

Button goes fastest with a 1:27.989

Hows does this time compare to last years pole ?

[London424]

RenOHH said:

WTF is going on. First Kimi's 1m 27 is inexplicably wiped from the board, and now Button's 1m 27 lap has gone too!

I'm guessing they are going off track somewhere.

[Teppic]

Last years pole was a 1:25.232, set on medium compound tyres.

[007 VXR]

London424 said:

RenOHH said:

WTF is going on. First Kimi's 1m 27 is inexplicably wiped from the board, and now Button's 1m 27 lap has gone too!

I'm guessing they are going off track somewhere.

cutting chicane being reported

[Teppic]

Nasr now fastest on a 1:27.522

[Munter]

007 VXR said:

cutting chicane being reported

It's a test. I'll let him off.

Because I'm generous like that

[andburg]

I bet force india are not happy..forced to atted by MB who then stole their driver

[Munter]

Honda done for the day. MGU-K seal failure. New part on sat!

[Sammo123]

Munter said:

Honda done for the day. MGU-K seal failure. New part on sat!

It's a shame as they seemed to be doing pretty well today!

[eps]

Sammo123 said:

Munter said:

Honda done for the day. MGU-K seal failure. New part on sat!

It's a shame as they seemed to be doing pretty well today!

Yep.

The part failed, so they're replacing the engine with another one and it may well fail on that one as well. A re-design part on it's way for Sat + Sun.

[London424]

Munter said:

Honda done for the day. MGU-K seal failure. New part on sat!

Yep..so sounds like could be tomorrow as well.

Not great, but the only way to learn these things.

[DanielSan]

London424 said:

Yep..so sounds like could be tomorrow as well.

Not great, but the only way to learn these things.

At least it's all happening now rather than Melbourne. Every issue that happens now is another niggle solved.

[andyps]

PW said:

Not very efficient to have a "niggle" on day 1 of testing and then spend another 4 day session sat in the garage waiting for it to be solved.

No good going to Melbourne with 3 niggles solved from 3 tests if there are 50 more yet to be uncovered.

But better to go with 50 than 53. With the current regulations regarding testing there really is no other solution than the one they are utilising is there?

[London424]

Kimi pops in a 1.25.598...getting very close to Pole position time already.

Alos looks like we've had a coming together...Wolff and Nasr. Oopsy!

[DanielSan]

London424 said:

Kimi pops in a 1.25.598...getting very close to Pole position time already.

Alos looks like we've had a coming together...Wolff and Nasr. Oopsy!

Crashing into someone in testing has got to be up there with exceptionally stupid things to do.

[Tyre Tread]

I sincerely hope it wasn't Mrs Woolf's fault or there will be some very stereotypical comments coming out V V soon?

Edited by Tyre Tread on Thursday 19th February 14:25

[London424]

From reading she was on a slow outlap and Nasr has tried to go round the outside and hit her...she says not her fault.

In other news Kimi goes faster than the last pole position time. 1.25.167