2009 January Winter Testing

[mx_tifoso]

Discussion about December (or at least this weeks) testing at any circuit may it be Algarve, Mugello, or Valencia, may be done so here. This in order to reduce the quantity of threads otherwise produced by having one for each circuit.

Well it seems that Toyota started running at Algarve on Sunday, which is surprising since there has been no mentioning of it as far as I'm aware of. It's possible that they acquired exclusive use of the Portuguese cirtuit for today, as Mclaren did on Saturday. Kamui Kobayashi was at the wheel of the TF109.
http://www.f1today.nl/fotos/testsessies ... uari-2009/
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/index.php/id/1574

As for Ferrari changing their test from Algarve to Mugello, it may not turn out to be as wise as they thought it would be. Since weather at the Tuscan circuit isn't ideal, with colder temperatures and fog looming around the region, and rain predicted in the forecast.

Official testing for 2009 starts on Monday, 19 January. On Monday Williams and Renault are scheduled to launch their new cars at the Algarve circuit. And BMW is expected to do the same the following day but in Valencia.

[Sawtooth-spike]

Why are Mclaren running 2009 car with 2008 wing?

[timbo]

Ouch, posted same thing in MP4/24 thread

[djos]

Why are Mclaren running 2009 car with 2008 wing?

I would suggest it is just some sort of Aero Benchmarking test as they know how much Downforce the old one generates and they are prolly comparing against the new for setup purposes?

[Shaddock]

They will be testing tyre wear and car set up.

[enkidu]

Interesting wheel covers?

[Shaddock]

I think they used similar last year on the MP4/23 in testing.



Are those infrared sensors (on the floor pan) pointing to the rear wheel to measure tyre temp?

[vyselegend]

Sh*t! It seems Hunkelberg has crashed the new car!

Hope he is well... The medical car's on track. Red flag.

[meves]

Is the Toyota running an old front wing and engine cover?

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/photolarge.php?photoID=117149&catID=3841

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/photolarge.php?photoID=117148&catID=3841

[roost89]

where did you find out? have you got some kind of feed to the track?
Hope he's alright and it hasn't dented Williams' testing efforts!

[vyselegend]

Duch site provides regular updates, go to:

http://www.f1today.nl/live-update/2009/01/19/autdromo-internacional-do-algarve/

And then open a babel fish or google translator to translate in english

Green flag again btw, but no news or pics of the FW31 and Hunkelberg yet. Hope nothing too bad in both cases.

[roost89]

Duch site provides regular updates, go to:

http://www.f1today.nl/live-update/2009/01/19/autdromo-internacional-do-algarve/

And then open a babel fish or google translator to translate in english

Green flag again btw, but no news or pics of the FW31 and Hunkelberg yet. Hope nothing too bad in both cases.

Thanks vyeslegend =)

[ISLAMATRON]

Why are Mclaren running 2009 car with 2008 wing?

becuz it looks so much better

[roost89]

Are the front brake intakes completely blocked off or is it just me?

[vyselegend]

If you push up the light of your computer screen you'll notice the lower part is hollow. The hole has the shape of a sidepod hole that would have been inverted (from right to left).

As usual Williams is using a very dark livery + raw carbon elements so it is very difficult to spot something on the car...