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[Aiii]

Stroll ruined the chassis, and Williams won't be running today.

 

[Mastah]

There’s no blame on his part, obviously.

 

[Tempy]

They'll have a second car ready for the afternoon.

 

[Lach]

They've spent the whole night dumping water on the track.

I can already see Max after two laps: "Guys, I think it's time for inters"...

 

[Mastah]

They'll have a second car ready for the afternoon.

No, they won't:

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

.

 

[n0n44m]

They'll have a second car ready for the afternoon.

Nah

Therefore, on safety grounds, the team will not run the car today. A second chassis will be prepared at track this afternoon, as originally planned, with the team aiming to be back on track for the second test next week starting on Tuesday 7 March

From their Twitter

Also from autosport

The fortunate thing for us is that the weather has been quite nice this week, so teams have had three good days of testing. But keeping the track wet at a track like this with a lot of elevation, particularly up to a corner like Turn 9, is not easy. You need the conditions to be consistent for good wet tyre testing, and this situation isn't going to provide that because you would need the water tankers out on track all day to achieve that. I expect a limited amount of running in these conditions because nobody has lots of bits to spare. It looks like it's going to be a day of testing thrown away for little advantage.
Gary Anderson

 

[Tempy]

Guess I misinterpreted that.

 

[Development]

Just a nice pic to start this test day

 

[Aiii]

That's a great picture.

 

[Elros]

Haas got them a T-Wing too

 

[Aiii]

Wet testing is a huge success:
1 Verstappen (12)
2 Raikkonen (9)
3 Vandoorne (13)
4 Giovinazzi (11)
Kvyat (1)
Hulkenberg (1)
Grosjean (1)
Hamilton (0)
Perez (0)

 

[Rolfgang]

Just a nice pic to start this test day

That's a beauty!

 

[Ark]

Wet testing, as always, has been a waste of time 😂😂

 

[aspiegamer]

I mean, I understand why there's an engineered tread pattern on the rear wets like that to cope with the size difference, but they look soooooooo goofy. Hell, they look like they're for brute force through snow! These almost seem like they're built for road cars.

Following in the rain is going to be even more a mess now. A repeat of Brazil would be a disaster to watch. Oh damn, Massa needs to wreck another chassis this year to re-celebrate his retirement, doesn't he? How are they going to have any spare parts that late in the season? He even got a celebratory safety car held out and pit lane closed long enough for his family to go out and greet him. Good luck getting a second favor like that from race control.

 

[Aiii]

If you're driving on snow, the last thing you want is wide tires.

 

[Aiii]

VES VER on inters, promptly goes to a 1m38.286s

 

[n0n44m]

Noch immer warten wir auf die erste Ausfahrt von Mercedes und Force India. Auch Toro Rosso scheint wieder in Trouble zu stecken. Oder man hat keine Lust auf der nassen Piste zu fahren. Gestern kämpfte das Team aus Faenza sowohl in der Früh als auch am Nachmittag mit einer fehlerhaften Antriebseinheit. Wir hören, dass das Problem im Verbrennungsmotor steckte.

Toro Rosso yesterday had problems with the Internal Combustion Engine part of the Renault power plant according to AMuS

let's hope we won't see issues with this 4 engines for 20 races thing this season (obviously McHonda has a snowball's chance in hell of avoiding penalties)

 

[Lemonte]

Mercedes is having electrical issues. Ferrari WCC confirmed.

 

[Zaru]

To be fair, even Merc is having issues now so they're not running

Edit: Slower than McLaren

 

[xrnzaaas]

Bwoah Kimi 4 seconds faster than the rest of the pack. ;p

 

[Aiii]

To be fair, even Merc is having issues now so they're not running

Edit: Slower than McLaren

I expect these issues to suddenly get resolved once the track is dry.

 

[Zycban]

Just a nice pic to start this test day

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C55f6SqWgAAgY4Z.jpg

Is there a higher res version of this?

 

[Dilly]

That McLaren is so slow even on ultra-softs.

 

[Aiii]

That Honda is tuned down a lot.

 

[DD]

Stroll ruined the chassis, and Williams won't be running today.

No, they won't:

Should I.... Should I be the first?

 

[Mastah]

Is there a higher res version of this?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C55f6SqWgAAgY4Z.jpg:orig

 

[Development]

Is there a higher res version of this?

Its from the official twitter of the circuit

https://twitter.com/Circuitcat_eng/status/837212076577861632

If you follow them you can send a DM?

edit: its already here

 

[Zaru]

It's funny how Ferrari is deliberately low-key about their expectations/confidence this year but everyone else generates enough hype to do that questionable job for them anyway.

 

[Peter Ian Staker]

It's funny how Ferrari is deliberately low-key about their expectations/confidence this year but everyone else generates enough hype to do that questionable job for them anyway.

I've seen the same bs play out so many times in the pre season with Ferrari.

Don't get suckered into believing this shit people.

Pre season testing should officially be renamed to sandbagging season.

 

[DD]

It begins: https://hasstrollcrashedyet.com/

 

[Scotch]

It begins: https://hasstrollcrashedyet.com/

Fantastic.

 

[Aiii]

Here's something you don't hear much in testing - Red Bull goes fastest. Verstappen sets a 1m21.8s on softs.

Max is gonna get a stern talking to in the debrief.

 

[Psychotext]

Fairly boring day this.

 

[Theorry]

Bozzy his vids are always the best sound wise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpJuAxK-fS4

 

[mclem]

Here's something you don't hear much in testing - Red Bull goes fastest. Verstappen sets a 1m21.8s on softs.

Max is gonna get a stern talking to in the debrief.

I thought today was wet testing? Was that the softs on wet, or was it only wet testing for the morning?

 

[DD]

Fairly boring day this.

At least we got some nice pics.

 

[Psychotext]

Fair play to Haas, they're certainly putting in the laps.

 

[Aiii]

I thought today was wet testing? Was that the softs on wet, or was it only wet testing for the morning?

Track dried up quickly in the sun, Barca has no sprinklers.

 

[Ark]

Track dried up quickly in the sun, Barca has no sprinklers.

Much to Bernie's disgruntlement.

 

[Zaru]

I thought today was wet testing? Was that the softs on wet, or was it only wet testing for the morning?

The test was always meant to cover the whole range of full wet to dry.

 

[RoKKeR]

At least we got some nice pics.

Woah, these are amazing.

 

[Line_HTX]

I like how both Magnussen and Grojean put in the most amount of laps combined.

 

[Big Takeover]

Bozzy his vids are always the best sound wise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpJuAxK-fS4

I was pretty amazed at where Max braked (OK, it was too late, but still!) at 1:54.

I compared it to last year's pole lap from LH. Both on softs (different compound altogether obviously)

 

[Lima]

Someone please tell me we are not going to see these ugly T wings during an actual race.

 

[Aiii]

No they put them on for shits and giggles during testing.

 

[DBT85]

Someone please tell me we are not going to see these ugly T wings during an actual race.

Unless the gap in the regs gets filled, you'll see them for sure. They'll be gone for next year though.

 

[Zaru]

https://www.facebook.com/CentralF1/videos/1216550431797121/

 

[Theorry]

Terrible person who made this.

 

[Ark]

https://www.facebook.com/CentralF1/videos/1216550431797121/

That hurts