F1 2016 pre-season testing

[Silent Storm]

From Autosport - "01:38 Hamilton is well on his way through this race run now. The medium tyre is holding up well, and he's lapping regularly in the 1m29s, now 12 laps into this stint since that messy pitstop"

[Silent Storm]

Bottas second 0,763 seconds behind Rosberg, theoretically with the same tyres. He has been faster than the German in the first sector.

Bottas was on Soft tyres.. or do you mean when he did a lap on Medium tyres?

[Fer.Fan]

What is wrong with Kimis car? Any news?

[f1316]

Bottas second 0,763 seconds behind Rosberg, theoretically with the same tyres. He has been faster than the German in the first sector.

Bottas was on Soft tyres.. or do you mean when he did a lap on Medium tyres?

Rosberg was also on soft

[f1316]

So this is an interesting delta:

14:52 While that was going on in the Mercedes pit, Bottas improved his time in second - 1m23.229s.

14:53 That Bottas lap was on ultra-softs - the first time we have seen them in this test.

Only 0.5 between soft and ultra soft for Williams so far.

[Vasconia]

Yes, and now Bottas has used the ultra-soft tyres and he is 0,207 behind Nico, if the data given by the site is correct.

[tomazy]

So this is an interesting delta:

14:52 While that was going on in the Mercedes pit, Bottas improved his time in second - 1m23.229s.

14:53 That Bottas lap was on ultra-softs - the first time we have seen them in this test.

Only 0.5 between soft and ultra soft for Williams so far.

Less, Bottas did a 1:23.572 on the second run on softs.

[Morteza]

Motorsport.com reports that Mercedes won't run Ultrasoft tires in Barcelona

Toto Wolff said: Our work programme has been defined by time and does not allow us to use compounds that are not usually used at this track. Nico [Rosberg] tried the soft for the first time this morning with good results, but mainly we will continue to run on the medium.

[Silent Storm]

Bottas second 0,763 seconds behind Rosberg, theoretically with the same tyres. He has been faster than the German in the first sector.

Bottas was on Soft tyres.. or do you mean when he did a lap on Medium tyres?

Rosberg was also on soft

My bad. I mixed it up with his earlier run.

[Mr Brooksy]

So this is an interesting delta:

14:52 While that was going on in the Mercedes pit, Bottas improved his time in second - 1m23.229s.

14:53 That Bottas lap was on ultra-softs - the first time we have seen them in this test.

Only 0.5 between soft and ultra soft for Williams so far.

Not exactly as Bottas was reported to have done a 1:23.572 on softs just after the 1:23:7.

Making the delta just over 2 tenths?

EDIT ** Ignore me, it took me too long to write this compared to others**

[j2004p]

Motorsport.com reports that Mercedes won't run Ultrasoft tires in Barcelona

Toto Wolff said: "Our work programme has been defined by time and does not allow us to use compounds that are not usually used at this track.

Aww, c'mon Toto.

Surely a headline grabbing time to completely demoralise the opposition is in the Test plan?

[turbof1]

Maybe all they need is the super softs to do that, something like: "we own your *ss when driving around on the super softs. Think about that when we slap on the ultra softs during the season."

[snowy]

Hamilton (M) 1:33.7 1:29.0 1:29.4 1:30.1 1:29.6 1:30.5 1:29.5 1:29.6 1:29.7 1:29.8 1:29.3 1:29.8 1:29.6 1:30.1 1:30.0 1:29.9 1:29.8 1:30.1 1:30.4

[Morteza]

https://twitter.com/HaasF1Team/status/7 ... 5553384448

[outsid3r]

What is wrong with Kimis car? Any news?

16:00 Just heard back from Ferrari. No specifics on why exactly Raikkonen ground to a halt earlier, but I'm told the team is currently investigating the problem and that it "could be a while" before the car comes back out, suggesting the issue could potentially be quite serious. Watch this space.
Ben Anderson