*** Winter Testing #2 - Barcelona ***
Discussion
BritishRacinGrin said:
Park'O said:
So Mercedes are around a second a lap quicker than the next fastest car, no change there then. Non of the teams have made no sort of ground up on Merc what so ever, which is fairly disappointing.
Bit early to be jumping to conclusions like that but I see you've made your mind up already. Park'O said:
BritishRacinGrin said:
Park'O said:
So Mercedes are around a second a lap quicker than the next fastest car, no change there then. Non of the teams have made no sort of ground up on Merc what so ever, which is fairly disappointing.
Bit early to be jumping to conclusions like that but I see you've made your mind up already. We don't know what fuel loads or performance programs the teams are running in testing, so any laptimes aren't directly comparable, and most of them won't be showing their full hand yet and will arrive in Melbourne with new update packages from what we're seeing now.
thegreenhell said:
Park'O said:
BritishRacinGrin said:
Park'O said:
So Mercedes are around a second a lap quicker than the next fastest car, no change there then. Non of the teams have made no sort of ground up on Merc what so ever, which is fairly disappointing.
Bit early to be jumping to conclusions like that but I see you've made your mind up already. We don't know what fuel loads or performance programs the teams are running in testing, so any laptimes aren't directly comparable, and most of them won't be showing their full hand yet and will arrive in Melbourne with new update packages from what we're seeing now.
Park'O said:
I completely agree but I'm still going to put my neck on the line and say there will be a big gap. In fact I think the gap will be greater than last season.
There are indications that it could be at least the same - I guess that is the case it proves that the current format has not yet reached the point of diminishing returns.BigBen said:
The McLaren has looked quite decent when it has actually been going fast. Sadly this has not been enough of the time so far. Hope the fix works for Alonso tomorrow.
I like to think that I am a "glass half full" sort of guy, but sadly I can see nothing that gives me any hope.I obviously need to dump crossed-fingers and get myself a rabbit's foot.
Inertiatic said:
Galileo said:
Inertiatic said:
London424 said:
I remember Webbers car doing that at the start of a race a few years back. Wasn't a problemSo that is probably why the smoke, as the excess oil was burned.
The other common issue with turbo race engines, is if the oil scavenge system for the turbo bearing feed wasn't working, or the turbo seal was weeping a little, oil will pool in the exhaust and when the engine fires and gets some heat into the exhaust/turbo, you get a lot of oil smoke as it burns that oil off.
Worst I ever had was on a Group C car, the previous team to run the car disconnected one of the electric feeds to one of the two turbo scavenge pumps (twin turbo setup with turbos mounted lower than the dry sump tank so needed external scavenge pumps to return the oil to the tank), the smoke was quite impressive when the engine was fired. It took a few minutes after I reconnected the electric scavenge pump to clear the excess oil passed by the bearing seals.
Image from Sky's live feed - http://media.fyre.co/cqlJqeCTjKdgbLkiH882_Fernando...
Edit - Apparantly Fernando is being air lifted to Hospital...
Edit - Apparantly Fernando is being air lifted to Hospital...
Edited by mw88 on Sunday 22 February 12:22
Blimey!
Turn 3 is very fast. Hope he is okay, but going by air is not good. Every test for the last few years seems to have been very hard work for McLaren
Edit: According to Sky the impact was on the side of the car. That would explain the hospital visit, and hopefully it's just concussion.
Turn 3 is very fast. Hope he is okay, but going by air is not good. Every test for the last few years seems to have been very hard work for McLaren
Edit: According to Sky the impact was on the side of the car. That would explain the hospital visit, and hopefully it's just concussion.
Edited by RenOHH on Sunday 22 February 12:51
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