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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by Ali » 27 Feb 2010, 14:40

Buemi has just been doing an 50 lap-long stint and he's consistent in 1m26s.

Remember, Spanish GP is 66 lap-long.
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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by harrisv48 » 27 Feb 2010, 14:47

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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by Ali » 27 Feb 2010, 15:08

I think a pattern just emerges as to how the races will fold.

Buemi has just done a GP simulation pitted on his 21st lap of his 63rd run, effectively a race distance.
Massa has just finished his 40th lap-long stint and made a tyre change and continue. Most probably, he will make 20 lap-stint on softer tyres.

Whereas

Button has been doing 20 lap-long stints which could mean 2 pit-stop strategy or just tyre evaluation.

By the way, an interesting note, when Button pitted for new tyres after his 20-ish lap long stint, he just started to lap in low 1m24s while Massa -after his 40-ish lap-long stint- has been lapping in low 1m22s, indicating that Massa was on softer, Button was on harder tyres.

Interesting.
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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by iceman1 » 27 Feb 2010, 16:23

Ali wrote: Button has been doing 20 lap-long stints which could mean 2 pit-stop strategy or just tyre evaluation.
It seems that Mclaren are changing their tyres all the time :zz:

Day 3 - Results

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1 	 Rosberg	Mercedes	 1m20.686s
2 	 Buemi	Toro Rosso	 1m21.413s  +0.727
3 	 Button	McLaren	 1m21.450s  +0.764
4 	 Barrichello	Williams	 1m21.975s  +1.289
5 	 Massa	Ferrari	 1m22.344s  +1.658
6 	 Petrov	Renault	 1m22.523s  +1.837
7 	 Sutil	Force India	 1m22.606s  +1.920
8 	 Vettel	Red Bull	 1m23.254s  +2.568
9 	 Trulli	Lotus	 1m25.059s  +4.373
10 	 Kobayashi	Sauber	 1m26.216s  +5.530
11 	 Glock	Virgin	 1m26.305s  +5.619

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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by JoostLamers » 27 Feb 2010, 16:42

Thanks Harris :)
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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by Ali » 27 Feb 2010, 18:27

M__E Reply:
February 27th, 2010 at 6:34 pm

I take that to mean

in front in Quali

Red Bull
McLarens
williams
sauber

in front in race

Ferrari
Mercedes

something like that James?

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February 27th, 2010 at 7:07 pm

I think Ferrari will be at the front in quali too. Sauber are 3/10ths off, it looks like.
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Tim Lockhart
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James, while across the internet the McLaren fanbase is in meltdown you seem to be uber confident about the MP4-25’s chances! :) Why so?

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February 27th, 2010 at 7:14 pm

Not really, I was observing that the long run was slow yesterday. I don’t think they are in trouble, but I also don’t think they are as quick all round as Ferrari
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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by iceman1 » 27 Feb 2010, 18:29

Jarno Trulli believes the pace shown by Lotus in his last day of testing will be much the same at the first race of 2010 at Bahrain in two weeks’ time
What we’ve seen here, no more. We’ll probably be four seconds off.

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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by Ali » 27 Feb 2010, 18:39

There will be 3 or 4 in-race competition this year. One is being the four-horse WDC race, which includes usual suspects.

And then there are Sauber, Renault and Williams fighting each other out.

Then Force India and Toro Rosso should form a group, though I expect both of them will be included in the mix of first or second group on different circuits. Especially FI.

And finally our newbies: Lotus and Virgin. I expect Lotus will come out on top as Virgin's lack of wind tunnel development will hinder their progression through the season.
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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by iceman1 » 27 Feb 2010, 18:52

Ali wrote: And finally our newbies: Lotus and Virgin. I expect Lotus will come out on top as Virgin's lack of wind tunnel development will hinder their progression through the season.
Hopeless strugglers: Campos :::

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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by Ali » 27 Feb 2010, 19:59

iceman1 wrote:
Ali wrote: And finally our newbies: Lotus and Virgin. I expect Lotus will come out on top as Virgin's lack of wind tunnel development will hinder their progression through the season.
Hopeless strugglers: Campos :::
Who is that folk? :zz: Sponsor?
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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by harrisv48 » 27 Feb 2010, 21:07

JoostLamers wrote:Thanks Harris :)
Nothing dude :wave:

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Re: 2010 Winter Testing

Post by iceman1 » 28 Feb 2010, 08:42

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