2010 Winter Testing

[djos]

Interesting comments from Nico H:

AutoSport

Nico Hulkenberg believes that this year's Williams does not currently have the speed to match the pacesetters at this week's Barcelona test.

The reigning GP2 champion finished the first day of testing with the second fastest time, but his best lap of 1m22.407s was nearly one second adrift of Mark Webber's Red Bull.

Hulkenberg believes that Williams is part of a second group of teams slightly behind Red Bull and Friday morning pacesetter Ferrari, and unlike some other teams he is not convinced that it is possible to match their pace.

When asked if the FW32 was capable of matching the fastest times set so far at the test Hulkenberg said: "It's difficult. I think not quite, but we are not so far away.

"I think Ferrari and Red Bull are just a little bit faster everywhere. Then there is a drop down, with teams like us, McLaren, Mercedes, Renault, but it is so difficult to read.

[marcush.]

http://twitpic.com/15embf

how naive...but nice ...hopefully nobody decides to have a williams 2010 car in his private collection ,if the freight forwarder gets to know that his freight is already published in the web the insurance will rocket like never seen before...cost cutting in F1 ...

[raceman]

http://twitpic.com/15embf

how naive...but nice ...hopefully nobody decides to have a williams 2010 car in his private collection ,if the freight forwarder gets to know that his freight is already published in the web the insurance will rocket like never seen before...cost cutting in F1 ...

+1


BTW, her posts are fun to read

[segedunum]

It's close between Red Bull and Ferrari. The track is obviously much quicker than yesterday and given the gaps between them and those behind it looks about even.

[Hangaku]

Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren, I think you'll find.

What McLaren seems to have done at testing so far, is spend the first couple of days gathering data, (running aero monitoring parts and such), and the next couple of days actually putting hard times in. I have no reason to believe that this is different now.

[djos]

Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren, I think you'll find.

What McLaren seems to have done at testing so far, is spend the first couple of days gathering data, (running aero monitoring parts and such), and the next couple of days actually putting hard times in. I have no reason to believe that this is different now.

not according to the Hulk!

[Hangaku]

Indeed, with his vast F1 experience, I have no reason to doubt him!

All this Hulk and Bulk business, it's all rather confusing ...

[WhiteBlue]

Circuit status: Air temperature: 15 ° C
Track temperature: 26 ° C
Test times Updated: 11:42
driver team Drive time difference #
1. F. Alonso Ferrari F10 1:20.637 37 pit
2. V. Liuzzi Force India VJM-03 1:21.056 +0,419 23 pit
3. J. Alguersuari Toro Rosso STR5 1:21.571 +0,934 24 pit
4. S. Vettel Red Bull Racing RB6 1:21.606 +0,969 35 pit
5. P. de la Rosa Sauber C29 1:22.306 +1,669 31 pit
6. L. Hamilton McLaren MP4-25 1:22.924 +2,287 18 pit
7. M. Schumacher Mercedes GP W01 1:24.075 +3,438 17 pit
8. R. Kubica Renault R30 1:24.912 +4,275 23 pit
9. N. Hulkenberg Williams FW32 1:26.054 +5,417 29 pit
10. J. Trulli Lotus F1 T127 1:26.677 +6,040 27 pit

This is how it stands before noon. Alonso sets a pace much faster than yesterday Webber in the red Bull.

[Hangaku]

I wonder how genuine the pace of that Force India is. I'd like to see it being more competitive this year.

[djos]

Indeed, with his vast F1 experience, I have no reason to doubt him!

All this Hulk and Bulk business, it's all rather confusing ...

He's an F1 driver and has been testing for the last 2 years so excuse me if I add more weight to his opinion than I do a fellow arm chair enthusiast.

[Richard]

Alonso sets a pace much faster than yesterday at the same time.

An individual lap time is random unless you know how much fuel was in the tank. Even when there is a 20 lap run they could anywhere between 60kg and 180kg of fuel.

I think if you plotted all the lap times you'd see a distribution of fast and low times emerge that would infer heavy and light fuel pace.

There was a greek site that listed every lap from Jerez, but I can't find the lap times for Barcelona. Would be delighted if someone can find that level of detail again. http://www.msfree.gr/ms.php?id=10691 [-o<

[segedunum]

Alonso sets a pace much faster than yesterday at the same time.

AN individual lap time is random unless you know how much fuel was in the tank. Even when there is a 20 lap run they could anywhere between 60kg and 180kg of fuel.

The track also seems to be much faster than yesterday. I don't think any of us believe that Force India or Torro Rosso are suddenly faster than Red Bull right now.

[segedunum]

Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren, I think you'll find.

Well, until they actually do the times......and apart from a couple of flyers they didn't look too spectacular in Jerez. I hope we'll see soon enough.

[WhiteBlue]

There was a greek site that listed every lap from Jerez, but I can't find the lap times for Barcelona. Would be delighted if someone can find that level of detail again. http://www.msfree.gr/ms.php?id=10691 [-o<

http://www.msfree.gr/ms.php?id=10929


This is what they did for yesteraday. For today

http://www.msfree.gr/ms.php?id=10980

[Hangaku]

...fellow arm chair enthusiast.

I'll have you know, I'm nowhere near an armchair!

@segedunum - Don't forget, Force India put good performances down on these sort of circuits last season - I wonder if it's the same case this season?