2010 Winter Testing
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Lewis gets the 2 "Rainy" days
Thursday Jenson testing - Weather Sunny
Friday Hamilton - Cloudy chance of rain
Saturday Jenson - Cloudy
Sunday - Hamilton - Showers
Thursday Jenson testing - Weather Sunny
Friday Hamilton - Cloudy chance of rain
Saturday Jenson - Cloudy
Sunday - Hamilton - Showers
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Fantastic! 2 Waisted days for Lewis AGAIN! Damn! That means that he will run around a 100 laps on the 2 days, while Jenson will get that amount of laps on 1 day. This way Button will have an edge over Hamilton
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JoostLamers wrote:Fantastic! 2 Waisted days for Lewis AGAIN! Damn! That means that he will run around a 100 laps on the 2 days, while Jenson will get that amount of laps on 1 day. This way Button will have an edge over Hamilton
In the site I see the weather says it will be sunny or at most cloudy all those days, and at least, for the Italian weather they are really accurate about the rain (even hour by hour).
Let's hope it will be dry, not only for Lewis, but to see really where is everyone. For sure this last week they all will test qualification settings and also race settings. At least we can know who has the fastest car... but in a season where race pace is everything it won't be much.
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Yeah its probably the most important test of the winter: the last test, plus most teams are bringing the last (big) updates on the car for Bahrein, so it;s important to test how fast the car is, both on quali terms as well as race pace terms...
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This is better news:
Noble: Latest forecast models remain confident of a mainly dry week for Barcelona. Possible evening showers, but that's about it. Top temps 15-16c.
Noble: Latest forecast models remain confident of a mainly dry week for Barcelona. Possible evening showers, but that's about it. Top temps 15-16c.
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Dry weather expected for final test
The teams had to dodge the rain at Jerez but the final four-day test before the first race of 2010 looks set to be dry.
The weather forecast for the Circuit de Catalunya is largely dry with temperatures in the mid-teens (C).
Some forecasts suggest a low chance of rain – 20-30% – on Friday and Saturday.
At least 11 teams will be at the home of the Spanish Grand Prix for the test but there’s still no sign of Campos Meta or US F1, or Stefan GP for that matter.
During the worst of the weather at Jerez Ferrari suggested the teams would be better off testing in drier (but more distant) venues. The teams have tested at Bahrain in recent years, though sand storms have caused problems at that circuit in past tests.
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Team Feb 25 Feb 26 Feb 27 Feb 28
Ferrari Alonso Alonso Massa Massa
Force India Liuzzi Liuzzi Sutil Sutil
Lotus Fauzy Trulli Trulli Kovalainen
McLaren Button Hamilton Button Hamilton
Mercedes Rosberg Schumacher Rosberg Schumacher
Red Bull Webber Vettel Vettel Webber
Renault Petrov Petrov Kubica Kubica
Sauber de la Rosa de la Rosa Kobayashi Kobayashi
Toro Rosso Alguersuari Alguersuari Buemi Buemi
Virgin tba tba tba tba
Williams Hulkenberg Hulkenberg Barrichello Barrichello
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Here is the lowdown of the tests up to this point :
Spoiler:
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McLaren's airflow measuring device used today also
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On board with Felipe Massa in F10 at Jerez
http://cdn.ferrari.com/Site%20Collectio ... d/test.swf
Enjoy!
http://cdn.ferrari.com/Site%20Collectio ... d/test.swf
Enjoy!
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Nice one. Thanks for that, harris!harrisv48 wrote:On board with Felipe Massa in F10 at Jerez
http://cdn.ferrari.com/Site%20Collectio ... d/test.swf
Enjoy!
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Gary Anderson - Tech Analysis of Jerez Week 2
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I've been doing some analysis of the long run data from the first Jerez test. I keyed in the four longest runs of the test from different drivers – Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher – and then compared their performances to what would be a theoretical ideal run.
On any given day, with any amount of fuel on board, the laptimes will always be different. But what is constant is that when you're on a long run, each lap should improve by a certain amount – because you burn off fuel.
Although the rate of tyre degradation can play a factor in this – and you would need a very complicated spreadsheet to calculate all the factors involved – as a guideline I have calculated that an ideal lap reduction would be 0.090 seconds per lap.
I looked at the four runs and then compared them to what I felt was the ideal. It is interesting that Massa was the one who came closest to achieving what I might call a perfect run. The others never quite got there.
On the graph you can see the rate of improvement. Taking the final lap that all the drivers completed, lap 33, there is quite a big difference.
The ideal run is an improvement of 2.88 seconds from the first lap. Hamilton was around 2.3 seconds quicker at this stage (although did two slower laps on lap 33/34), Alonso was only a few tenths quicker than his first flying lap and Schumacher was around 1.5 seconds off. In contrast, Massa was spot on with his 2.897s improvement.
This week's test at Barcelona is the one that really matters, you can wipe out the results of the tests that have taken place already. And this is the first time we are going to go to a track that holds a grand prix.
Valencia and Jerez may have been exciting stuff, but Barcelona has Turn 3 and other characteristics that really kill the front tyres. Teams are going to have to do low fuel runs as well as long runs to make sure the balance of the car is exactly as they need it for a whole race weekend.
They are going to have to do it all in Barcelona, and they will need to get the reliability. This test is the one I would go to with the view that we need to switch the car on in the morning and off at night without any problems during the day, because Bahrain is fast approaching.
From what we've seen, I think Ferrari and BMW Sauber don't look too bad – they are the teams that have moved forward. McLaren might be just behind them and I think Mercedes GP is in there again, as is Red Bull. There is going to be a big bunch fighting it out and that's going to make for an interesting start to the season.
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