Mercedes AMG F1 W03

[zonk]

Another good look at some W03 detail

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what tires are those?

[Rikhart]

Dirty mediums?

[aduka11]

Gray...so those should be Hard compound

[ovidiulucaci]

what tires are those?[/quote]

Hard!
For more details check this out:
http://www.f1india.org/f1-2012/973-pire ... lor-scheme

[Adamski]

Another good look at some W03 detail

right click>view image

what tires are those?

It looks to me a nice rake on the car, isn't it?

[zonk]

thanks!

[Morteza]

No burnt bodywork today?

[thomin]

red arrow: What's this stuff coming out of the cooling outlet?

blue arrow: You can nicely see from the flow viz on the breaking light how the air exits the mini DDD...

[analist01]

So, how are the times of Mercedes today, is there an topic somewhere about the testing times ?

[Lurk]

Barcelona Testing thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12073

[dren]

Where was the flo-vis painted initially? You can clearly see it inside the mini-DD. This will tell us for certain where it is being fed from.

[kooleracer]

Shouldn't we as mercedes fans start worrying about the drop-off per lap. If I look at the earlier test week and this first day. The drop-off per lap is way to big compared to the top 3.

Massa 8 lap dropoff was 1.3 sec.
Rosberg 8 lap dropoff was 2.2 sec.
Webber did 2 4 laps stint with dropoff 0.5 sec.

Ofcourse they are on different tyres (tyre life) and fuel loads. But even when you run hard tyres with a lot of fuel. 2.2 sec dropoff in 8 laps is really to much. Last year in the race laps would increase with 2 sec after 12-15 laps not 8 laps.
I hope they find a good setup to battle this problem, because Ferrari obviously found there sweet spot. Hope we can find it before this test ends.

[dren]

I wouldn't worry until the team does. They may have Rosberg drive the car hard to see what the drop off is if you drive in such a way.

[pocketmoon]

I wouldn't worry until the team does. They may have Rosberg drive the car hard to see what the drop off is if you drive in such a way.

There was a Bawn quote from the end of the last test saying just that - they wanted to understand how best to utilise new tyres - push hard early or treat them nicely!

[Morteza]