Mercedes AMG F1 W03 (pre-launch speculation)

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MercAMGF1Fans wrote:
yace wrote:thank you mestrades

what's going on with the exhauts? the area looks strange
Remember, it could be one of the 3 Exhausts they wanted to test before melbourne!
yes i read it, so that means the exhausts tested at silverstone are definetly exited?
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It looks like there is much of body roll in the car or is it the magic mercury suspension working. Or is it the front wing flexing or is it the track?
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Every other team will also have done the 100km shakedown and 2 x 50km filming sessions, so don't get confused between Jerez mileage and AMG's so far.

Seems like Silverstone was filming day and Montmelo is shakedown so undoubtedly the Montmelo setup is the one we really need good photos of; even at BCN they may not run a configuration as close to the actual car as at Montmelo.

Anyone there with an SLR could make more from Autosport, AMuS or Coughlan than from posting them here, sadly ;)
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Montmelo is BCN. I think they may have run the configuration they're about to test on day 1. The neat thing is they've started off sooner than the rest at this circuit, if nothing else at least the initial setup work should be out of the way now.

As for roll IIRC someone did say the same thing about the W03's behaviour through the turns at Silverstone last week, could be something to it.

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Ok, here's what Merc Have said about today..
MERCEDES AMG F1 @MercedesAMGF1
W03 had a second track outing today as we completed a private test in Barcelona... Michael drove this morning and Nico this afternoon
Over 300 kms completed for our testing programme with the new car...
To confirm: under the testing agreement, not running on the final day of the team test in Jerez allowed us to nominate a private test day

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And they ran the full 2012 Pirellis!

Mr Brawn, you Sneeky ####! HAHAH brilliant

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How do you mean "full" Pirellis?
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raymondu999 wrote:How do you mean "full" Pirellis?
as in non-demo tyres

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raymondu999 wrote:How do you mean "full" Pirellis?
the normal 2012 racing spec range
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yeah full-spec, not the crumby Demo tyres

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300KMs of testing for a single day... not that bad ;)

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samstre wrote:300KMs of testing for a single day... not that bad ;)
Yeah, for a first test day 65 laps at Montmelo are not bad.
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samstre wrote:300KMs of testing for a single day... not that bad ;)
Yeah, but they have nothing to compare themselves with. So they do not know how far behind the others , they are!

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good stuff...
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... md%3Dimvns

i dont know why, but some of these images and concepts makes that super leaned over front wing endplate look all the more sneaky...
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sorry
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