2015 Pre-season Testing

[ema00]

Datasheet of Kimi's race sim by formulapassion:



I did some calculations

1° stint with medium tyres: pace 1.31.080 (19 laps)
2° stint with hard: passo 1.30.460 (15 laps)
3° stint with winter hard: 1.28.694 (26 laps)

race sim time 65 laps (excluding the final lap): 1h 39m 16s
Hamilton in 2014 did it in 1h 41m 05s with a gap of 87.7s to Alonso and 1 lap to Raikkonen

race pace excluding in-lap (yellow) and out-lap (green) 1.29.890
race pace of 65 lap: 1.31.160

[dren]

McLaren press conference :
Boullier: "Reliability is still a worry. It'll take a few races. We may start being competitive once we get to Europe"

Wow, they've written off two months and 4 grand prix. It's quite a statement, especially when McLaren are not renowned for accurately predicting their return to competitiveness.

By the way, good work turbof1. Let's keep it about the facts.

Ron claimed victories at the start of last season.

I was expecting a mid-year return to competitiveness for McHonda, sounds about right.

[dren]

ema00, did you account for pitstops?

[ema00]

ema00, did you account for pitstops?

I'm not sure I understand the question, anyway

1°, 2° and 3° stint are calculated without pitstop laps.

the race pace (65 laps) accounts the pitstops too

[f1316]

Datasheet of Kimi's race sim by formulapassion:

http://www.formulapassion.it/wp-content ... -Tempi.jpg

I did some calculations

1° stint with medium tyres: pace 1.31.080 (19 laps)
2° stint with hard: passo 1.30.460 (15 laps)
3° stint with winter hard: 1.28.694 (26 laps)

race sim time 65 laps (excluding the final lap): 1h 39m 16s
Hamilton in 2014 did it in 1h 41m 05s with a gap of 87.7s to Alonso and 1 lap to Raikkonen

race pace excluding in-lap (yellow) and out-lap (green) 1.29.890
race pace of 65 lap: 1.31.160

Thanks ema. That pace seems pretty good. Do you have similar analyses for any other teams?

[PlatinumZealot]

If alonso was drivng that Ferrari u can subtract six teths from the times too..

[ema00]

Thanks ema. That pace seems pretty good. Do you have similar analyses for any other teams?

I posted this during barcelona 1, don't know how they calculated (with or without pitstop laps) and if the data are true

some datasheet from an italian site, they seems realistics but I don't know if they are true

race sim 55 laps - RICCIARDO - REDBULL
- 1° STINT (SOFT USATE - 7 giri): pace 1.31.361
- 2° STINT (MEDIE USATE - 18 giri): pace 1.31.287
- 3° STINT (MEDIE USATE - 19 giri): pace 1.30.135
- 4° STINT (SOFT USATE - 11 giri): pace 1.29.099
- Race pace: 1.30.470

Race sim 56 laps - HAMILTON - MERCEDES
- 1° STINT (DURE USATE - 21 giri): pace 1.31.103
- 2° STINT (DURE USATE - 19 giri): pace 1.29.520
- 3° STINT (DURE NUOVE - 16 giri): pace 1.28.171
- Race pace: 1.29.598

Race sim 58 laps - WOLFF - WILLIAMS
- 1° STINT (MEDIE USATE - 19 giri): pace 1.32.0
- 2° STINT (DURE NUOVE - 24 giri): pace 1.32.4
- 3° STINT (MEDIE NUOVE - 15 giri): pace 1.30.5
- Race pace: 1.31.7

Race sim 47 laps - VERSTAPPEN - TOROROSSO

- 1° STINT (MEDIE NUOVE - 16 giri): pace 1.31.3
- 2° STINT (MEDIE USATE - 22 giri): pace 1.30.5
- 3° STINT (MEDIE NUOVE - 9 giri): pace 1.29.7
- Race pace: 1.30.5 (Less laps then other)

Vettel long run (Used Medium, kg fuel unknown)

01:29,958 1
01:29,725 2
01:28,951 3
01:28,832 4
01:28,958 5
01:29,278 6
01:29,215 7
01:29,196 8
01:29,229 9
01:29,670 10
01:29,587 11
01:29,863 12
01:30,203 13
01:30,329 14
01:30,474 15
PACE 01:29,565

http://www.f1analisitecnica.com/2015/02 ... day-3.html
http://www.f1analisitecnica.com/2015/02 ... 5-t-7.html

[Cale24]

Looking at the speed traps, Sauber for example are near 10km/h faster than Ferrari- wonder how much of that is down to just how high the wick is set on their engines versus wing config and general aero/drag for each car? ie Are Ferrari running their engine, including a race sim, at a slightly more 'relaxed' state of tune than Sauber? Comparing corner speeds across teams would help narrow things down further.

[Just_a_fan]

Cars that lack downforce tend to be quick in a straight line as they tend to have less drag too. I well remember Minardi topping the speed gun times back in the day, for example.

[Vasconia]

Removed the sexist crap in the topic for following reasons:
-Criticism shouldn't be about somebodies looks, should be about the way he or she drives. I tent to agree she did not earn her position, but let's not involve idiotic, nonsensical reasons.
-It is off topic, and belongs in the lotus team thread, where ironically the discussion is on point about Carmen's driving ability

I really want to clarify that this comment do NOT reflect my PERSONAL view, I really would like to clarify this from this very moment. I just wanted to say that some people think in this way, which is very sad. And I say this because I have seen some stupid comments about her for only being a woman, a truly disgusting cr*p.

Sorry because it seems that I have explained myself so badly!

[Cale24]

Cars that lack downforce tend to be quick in a straight line as they tend to have less drag too. I well remember Minardi topping the speed gun times back in the day, for example.

Sure, but Williams for example are hauling through the traps and that is down to good efficiency rather than absence of downforce, etc.

[Vasconia]

What Boullier has said makes sense for me. I think they have serious problems with reliability and they will need a few races to make enough mileage to fully understand those problems and achieve to make the engine work at 100%. With the first big development planned for Barcelona they should be competitive again.

[f1316]

Well I'd like to believe Ferrari's race pace is 0.3 behind Mercedes but certainly won't count on it

I hope that Pirellis are a bit more aggressive this year (as Pirelli predicted) once we get to representative temperatures. Was too comfortable last year which also made it more predictable.

[gandharva]

Cars that lack downforce tend to be quick in a straight line as they tend to have less drag too. I well remember Minardi topping the speed gun times back in the day, for example.

Sure, but Williams for example are hauling through the traps and that is down to good efficiency rather than absence of downforce, etc.

We will see if this still works in 2015. Personally I think Willimas will have much harder times this year.

[PlatinumZealot]

Well the good news for williams fans is this track is one of their weakest so they should be in pretty good shape.