2010 Winter Testing

[marcush.]

If I remember correctly the times of faultless rollouts and testing sessions in F1 started with Sauber coming into F1.
Before them coming into F1 it was normal practise that the first days on the track were littered by mechanical glitches and long pauses with a lot of bricolage...especially for the minnows in F1...
I remember ATS driver Manfred Winkelhock solving one electrical failure on their first proper test with the BMW turbo ,as he was the only professional car electrician
in the team!!!! that test was in Brazil btw...

with the budgets going down it is completely normal that we will face more of these glitches make it to the track,no question.

From now on experience and expertise is king more than ever.You need to have a good understanding of the implications plus detail knowledge in one person,whereas beforehand this could be split into several persons contributing to the master.

[WhiteBlue]

Circuit status: Air temperature: 10 ° C
Track temperature: 11 ° C
Test times Updated: 10:38
driver team Drive time difference #
1. F. Bulk Ferrari F60 1:28.879 14 pit
2. S. Vettel Red Bull Racing RB6 1:29.330 +0,451 7 pit
3. P. de la Rosa Sauber C29 1:29.691 +0,812 8 pit
4. N. Rosberg Mercedes GP W01 1:30.203 +1,324 18 pit
5. P. di Resta Force India F8-VII 1:30.344 +1,465 14 pit
6. R. Barrichello Williams FW32 1:31.489 +2,610 22 pit
7. L. Hamilton McLaren MP4-25 1:32.934 +4,055 24
8. T. Glock Virgin Racing VR-01 1:33.234 +4,355 15 pit
9. S. Buemi Toro Rosso STR5 1:33.752 +4,873 12

Its raining. Hamilton and Buemi alone on track.

the rain didn't stop Felipe Massa from leaping to the top of the timesheets, the Brazilian taking 0.812s off de la Rosa's best.

And that's where the opening hour came to a temporary halt as Timo Glock brought out the day's first stoppage.

The Virgin Racing driver, who completed 15 laps in the first 39 minutes - four more than he managed the entire day on Wednesday, brought out the red flags when he went off track at the Michelin corner.

It is not yet known how bad the damage is to his VR01.

[Poleman]

All that rain is becoming really frustrating...

[WhiteBlue]

All that rain is becoming really frustrating...

The lovely sand storms of Bahrain .... I know!

[horse]

Glock parks the Virgin in the gravel trap. Perhaps this is why they don't run in the wet? Seriously, those guys look like the unluckiest team.

Autosport are saying he didn't hit anything, so presumably they'll be ready to run pretty quick.

[Richard]

it was normal practise that the first days on the track were littered by mechanical glitches and long pauses with a lot of bricolage...especially for the minnows in F1...

There also used to be an attrition rate of over 50% , ie more than half the cars didn't make it to then finish.

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[Poleman]

11:50 Kovalainen has caused the third red flag of the day after going off at Turn 3

Things seem to go from bad to worse for the Lotus team today...

Looks like theres no damage to the car though...

11:52 The Finn was enjoying a trouble-free eight-lap run when he lost control of his Lotus and got stuck in the gravel

[thestig84]

Think it has knocked off his front wing

[Poleman]

Think it has knocked off his front wing

Indeed...You are right.

11:55 The front wing is missing from the Lotus. The question is if they have a spare one

1 Vettel Red Bull 1m28.746s
2 Massa Ferrari 1m28.879s +0.133
3 Rosberg Mercedes 1m28.964s +0.218
4 De la Rosa Sauber 1m29.691s +0.945
5 Di Resta Force India 1m30.344s +1.598
6 Barrichello Williams 1m31.489s +2.743
7 Glock Virgin 1m31.557s +2.811
8 Buemi Toro Rosso 1m32.678s +3.932
9 Hamilton McLaren 1m32.934s +4.188
10 Kovalainen Lotus 1m33.554s +4.808
11 Petrov Renault 1m35.297s +6.551

[horse]

12:16 Lotus reports that it is evaluating the damage to Kovalainen's car, as work continues to retrieve the T127. It appears the front wing has been badly damaged.

Oh dear, looks like Lotus' good karma has run out. I hope we see them on the track again today.

Nope, no more for Lotus today:

12:50 An apologetic Kovalainen confirms that Lotus is out of action for the rest of the day, @H_Kovalainen: "Had a crash and damaged front wing, session over for us. S..t! My mistake, tomorrow we go again..."

[marcush.]

thats why you sign experienced drivers .... they admit to making mistakes...
they sure could do without a driver throwing all hopes into the gravel at those times....Kova has definitely not earned his money today.

[Poleman]

thats why you sign experienced drivers .... they admit to making mistakes...
they sure could do without a driver throwing all hopes into the gravel at those times....Kova has definitely not earned his money today.

Considering the weather conditions and the fact that (possibly) the Lotus car isnt the best around,it could happpen to anyone...

[Confused_Andy]

Why does FIF1 have a green light on its tail not red?

And look, seems like their using the same instruments as Mclaren to collect data, THEY MUST BE IN TROUBLE!!!!

[marcush.]

thats why you sign experienced drivers .... they admit to making mistakes...
they sure could do without a driver throwing all hopes into the gravel at those times....Kova has definitely not earned his money today.

Considering the weather conditions and the fact that (possibly) the Lotus car isnt the best around,it could happpen to anyone...

If you got only a single front nosecone in Jerez you should stay in the pits waiting for better weather or tell the driver : if you loose it you walk home...

Why not have generic wings for the times when you can´t accumulate useful performance data anyways? To get mileage under your belt you could as well use some
old /outdated stuff.
didn´t they want to put on new developments anyways?

[tomazy]

Why does FIF1 have a green light on its tail not red?

I think it has something to do with the unexperianced driver, but am not shore.