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[Lucius86]

Has BBC's live text ballsed up for everyone? Is Mercedes power powering their service too?

Yep. I've moved over to Sky's now.

 

[silver.tongue]

Merc easily the best.

Also... Force India car is racist...

 

[Zeknurn]

The Ferrari doesn't even look that bad from this angle.

Mercedes and Red Bull still did it better, though.

Are you me? That's exactly what I said elsewhere.

 

[chadskin]

The reason Kimi stopped the car earlier was because of a wrong telemetry warning, so all-clear.

 

[Nicktendo86]

Has BBC's live text ballsed up for everyone? Is Mercedes power powering their service too?

Yep, not working at all. I can't get Sky's to work either, I think they are having problems with the internet out in Jerez. Not sure if that would affect it...

 

[Jibbed]

Has BBC's live text ballsed up for everyone? Is Mercedes power powering their service too?

I'm using Autosport

 

[chadskin]

Apparently, they mounted a spring of the rear wheel suspension the wrong way on Vettels car yesterday and had to dissamble "thousands of other components" to get to that spring. Crazy it takes them that long, though.

 

[Nicktendo86]

Apparently, they mounted a spring of the rear wheel suspension the wrong way on Vettels car yesterday and had to dissamble "thousands of other components" to get to that spring. Crazy it takes them that long, though.

Haha so almost exactly the same as McLaren's fuck up last year, except RB noticed the mistake first.

 

[Psychotext]

Not sure how I feel about this:

At slow speed, coming out of the pitlane or coming out of the corners, they sound like a teenager's spiced-up car, but on full power it’s quite a nice, clean, roar – not a high revving sound which hurts your ears. In fact, I’ve not had to use my ear plugs at any point during the day. The noise reminds me of a Formula 3 car – it’s not quite as loud as a GP2 car.

That soul vibrating edge at full revs was part of the experience for me. Track side at least.

 

[Juicy Bob]

Yeah, I've not been physically rocked by the engine sounds just yet. Won't really need to worry about earplugs at this rate, although I think it should be said that we haven't heard the engines really being pushed yet at all.

 

[chadskin]

2013: 1m18.861s (Button, McLaren)
2014: 1m27.820s (Hamilton, Mercedes)

Best lap times on day one of testing in Jerez. They really haven't pushed the cars yet.

 

[theignoramus]

there's lengthy HD footage of 2013 Jerez from (presumably) unauthorized sources all over youtube, undoubtedly there will be some of that this year. We will just have to play a frustrating waiting game. also, have to say the RBR10 looks the nicest of any of them thus far.

 

[Lucius86]

Juicy, how come you are out there?

 

[Mastah]

Ted Kravitz ‏@tedkravitz 1m

McLaren: 'hydraulic and electrical installation issues'. Everything (car, engine, g'box) won't go together and start. Unlikely to run today

.

 

[gutterboy44]

I know we have heard plenty of audio clips, but it just never really sank in until seeing the video of the cars out on the track today. My god, they have utterly castrated those engines. Turbo whine is kind of cool sounding but it just isn't the same without the screeching engines. I am so glad I got to see the V10 19,000-20,000 RPM days at the first race at Indy and a few at Montreal.

I was hoping we would get some fantastic coincidence news that Schumi would show signs of improving the same day F1 testing started. I just made myself depressed. Ugh, come on Schumi, pull through.

 

[mclem]

MilanPetrinec
Vettel said, that the reason why he has not run yet is, that they mounted one part of the car the wrong way. Not sure what he meant, but apparently it will take some time to fix that

Pretty funny.

Rooting for "The seat".

 

[chadskin]

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Man, I can't imagine what's going on at the McLaren box. That's probably the worst case scenario.

 

[theignoramus]

doesnt FIA plan on mandating lower rev ceilings in the upcoming seasons? along with a three engine per season limit.

 

[Mastah]

And it's the end for Mercedes today:

Tobias Grüner F1 ‏@tgruener 42s

AMuS exclusive: Mercedes frist test day is over. No spare front wing at Jerez. Reinforced spare part will be flown in tomorrow a.m.

 

[-MikePriester-]

Quite a few vids from youtube in the last hour or so:

Hamilton Crash:

http://youtu.be/8gZ5yRtxLJw

Hamilton drive by:

http://youtu.be/EkFbP32-pqQ

Kimi leaving the pits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2hJebIu4OY

RB10 Reveal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HORwhCuINvU


P.S. Don't know how to embed sorry

 

[Big Takeover]

That's almost an exact replica from Lewis' first day crash last year. Last year's was the backstraight, iirc.

Interesting nose on the RB. What's that thing made of? It's got inlets on it as well.

 

[operon]

Surely there is no way that Force India wing will last the first corner of a race. Mercedes being on the same wave length as Ferrari gives me some hope Ferrari will do ok. till Mercedes reveals that their wind tunnel is wrong or something.

 

[-MikePriester-]

Caterham has just been revealed according to autosport.

Also: IMO: I love the diversity between each of the cars front end. They are growing on me quick, as is the sound of the new engines (I read a lot of gaf but don't post).

 

[Lucius86]

Caterham about to hit the track...

 

[DrM]

And it's the end for Mercedes today:

They will probably have it by tomorrow morning with some private flight... but still very unusual to be without spare one, maybe they broke some other piece in crash and they are without that?

 

[Dave_6]

Love all these short videos posted so far! Sounds like the 80's era all over again IMO.

 

[chadskin]

"We hope to get the car on the track today. It's just that every change we do takes three to four times longer than last year because everything's so tight at the rear."

It's from AMuS, translated by me.

 

[DBT85]

Bit of a bugger for Hamilton. Nice to see a little hate creeping in already lol

 

[Mastah]

And we have the winner of being the worst looking nose so far :/

 

[cmr-94]

WTF

Is it just me or that front wing quite big?

 

[DBT85]

And we have the winner of being the worst looking nose so far :/

 

[DrM]

Holy crap

 

[Mastah]

It's looking fucking ridiculous, fuck these rules, seriously, they need to fix them for 2015:

 

[Psychotext]

Hahah.... batshit mental.

 

[Dutch Gronk]

Hahaha

Well at least all the diversity is making it interesting. They are ugly as fuck, but still.

 

[Hasney]

It's from AMuS, translated by me.

I do like a bit of tightness at the rear.

 

[acm2000]

hands down, caterham wins this season, its amazing and i want to drive it

 

[Zeknurn]

That crazy nose is perfect for Kobayashi.

 

[gutterboy44]

Hahaha. Well this whole nose thing just turned the corner of weird to hilarious and fun. Won't be confusing any of the cars on the grid this year. I really hope the race results are just as exciting and ridiculous.

 

[Staab]

Holy fuck, Caterham... wow, there are no words to describe this ugliness...
In any case it's bold and there's diversity, that's interesting !

 

[Zeknurn]

Someone with a Blackberry filmed Lewis crash in high quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gZ5yRtxLJw

 

[Juicy Bob]

Sorry for the shit photo. I've never tried one of these before!

EDIT: Bonus Ted Kravitz shot in there too

 

[Blablurn]

Someone with a Blackberry filmed Lewis crash in high quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gZ5yRtxLJw

Thank god the sand took care of most of the speed.

 

[-MikePriester-]

Sorry for the shit photo. I've never tried one of these before!

EDIT: Bonus Ted Kravitz shot in there too

HOW many cars to caterham have out today!!!!

 

[Risgroo]

I enjoy seeing lots of different designs, but that Caterham just looks horrible. Hope it's worth it.

 

[Tempy]

It's like the Caterham has no nose. All the diversity is fun though.

 

[Zeknurn]

No more low shots of the Caterham please.

 

[chadskin]

No more low shots of the Caterham please.

Hmm...

 

[operon]

Close up show now, it's all over. The end of formula 1 is here, that Caterham is vile. They should be 2 wings stuck together so that when that from wing stuck on the end of the penis comes of after the first corner the won't have to pit. So many front wings going to need replaced. At least the first race of the season will go back to having few finishers due to reliability problems etc they used to be great times

 

[Hasney]

Close up show now, it's all over. The end of formula 1 is here, that Caterham is vile. They should be 2 wings stuck together so that when that from wing stuck on the end of the penis comes of after the first corner the won't have to pit. So many front wings going to need replaced. At least the first race of the season will go back to having few finishers due to reliability problems etc they used to be great times

They survived the above Ferrari and that is much worse.