Amazing, there are now about the times from Barcelona report. BrawnGP also shows very good times, but the rest is not far away.
I am repeating myself because like, and often, but the rule is just, if a car is fast, it's just fast. Since you can not concealing, because at some point you have already demonstrated what is possible. What is one to do so as if the road is slow. In BrawnGP it seems to run really well. The BGP001 was from the first round, not only fast but also a constant forward again. Today, a button popped out 1:19.127 minutes, the fastest time that has ever driven an F1 after the change in Barcelona. And as if that was not enough, you could lie down with 124 rounds and still a real long run. As much as we do of course still have in mind that BrawnGP is so fast only to a group of friends - you have to create even for now.
For there is then equal to the second farm rules in motorsports. It's easier to get a fast car was fixed, as a solid fast. Even if BrawnGP is only able to go 10 rounds times the speed, amazing performance after the incidence of recent months has been.
On the other side of the mirror is time McLaren. Again, it was still not a good time, and repeatedly has tried most diverse parts. Yesterday, it should have been a rear spoiler, a lower floor and a new front wing. There are rumors that the driver take at various points "lifting" and deliberately time out. Maybe I do not know the sector times. Would be seen as important if they are slow at this time, sometimes in that sector, or whether they lose consistently in a particular sector. But even if they only support that is strange, because the driver is not exactly easy to find their rhythm. Behind it was now Brawn back 2.6 seconds behind Ferrari, it was still 1.5. Also perhaps interesting, albeit not very meaningful: McLaren does not have a personal best this year on which test rate can also get more. We can assume a lot, but what continues, but then just as I once again point out that line about once a fast ... etc.
Subtracting time from the time of BrawnGP, then we get behind an interesting picture. As you can see for weeks already, Ferrari, Toyota and BMW are quite close together. Today there were about two tenths, so ratio test for virtually nothing. Renault still has some distance, but in contrast to the more disastrous time at the beginning of the year, it has become much better. Are difficult to Red Bull and Williams, as both their fast times in the past have run tests and go now apparently a pure test mode.
LMS - Audi R15 and Aston Martin
Audi has unveiled official photos of the new R15. And the longer I look at the car, the more I wonder. Because Audi is pursuing a completely different way than all other manufacturers in recent years. I'm still out my photo page through encyclopedias, which include virtually all prototypes since the 60s, and I've found nothing of the kind. This is the side of the car not so different than the rest down the deep-drawn side boxes are nothing new, even if they remember of course to the Formula One. But it probably all comes together with the very unusual front.
There is for example the closed, high front. But a comparison with the new Aston Martin reveals how differently the Audi. The car is very high and has a wide air intake. Where other designers to keep the front flat as possible so that the air is less disturbed, Audi is doing the exact opposite. The chassis is closed, the top has suggested, probably to the fact that Audi has since made something under the hood with the aerodynamics. The assumption is close to never to want to make a lot of downforce on both the Vorderache, and under the car. But look for yourself ....
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I prefer if it were, would have plunked down BrawnGP not the same board times, but would rather be on a par with the other begeben.Entweder the car is a grenade, but this is like a 6 in the lottery, or you can drive as fast to a few sponsors to bekommen.Genaueres you will only see in Melbourne, because as is always the off-season of F1 so opaque that you need make no predictions.
I guess that the same attempt as in the R14, so the A4 DTM. There have been also tried as much air as possible to get by's car through. And who knows how the air is directed inside the body. What also surprised me that it is far from the R15 has not shown any photos of the back.
Wolli is right to "the flag drops the bullshit stops". I bet BrawnGP went underweight to the sponsor search to drive. It would be very surprising if a team suddenly cucumbers from the previous year is suddenly faster with a new engine and months of pause as everyone else.
surely there is a little zurechtgezeitet, but as Don already said, one must also take this time firstonce. Every other team has the opportunity to test as a quality trim. Sponsors is just as legitimate, I think there is, perhaps except Ferrari, hardly a team that would not win any additional sponsors.
And for a "board" you can drive itself is not at all :-) Brawn probably be there.
What do you mean quality trim? If BrawnGP for testing KERS and a few / the lead plates can get out, they are sometimes just an estimated 15% underweight. When Jenson then against the fast lap times just going to the toilet, it's no wonder that he finds himself at the top.
You must also have in mind that the car with one of the highest budgets, under the leadership of Ross Brawn (who at least "got" has 7 titles), was built and that not only since the middle of last year ...
In addition, they also have to someday take a little fuel as the other teams have also made some already. And since they have only 8 days of testing before Melbourne, you can not even engage in large games. I expect tomorrow from the other teams have at least 19 mm times, because for most it is tomorrow the last exit before Melbourne.
In addition, the BGP001 was also "long runs" very well with it. There was a stint of more than 20 laps, Button drove for almost the only 1:20 hours, this consistency until now only Toyota has set the day. For if anything can be read out from these testing times, it does not determine the rankings at the end of the day ...
And speaking of "Executive Hours" (which are a private team not so important anyway ;))) I think a little far-fetched, passing through their program to make the few adjustments the best test. This is not to say that they run circles around the other in Melbourne, as the Ferraris, BMWs and how they are all hot this time again beaten expectations when they get serious ...
@ Andrew (raceworks.de):
Yes, I also miss photos from the stern. That must have something to do with the front, as the rules for the diffuser so the ACO are not so closely placed as in F1. That will never take such a large amount of drag in front of purchase if it is not (at least in the wind tunnel) brings something into the corners.
But we must not forget that only Audi Le Lans go there and one of top speed and fuel consumption, less the "new" passage before the start / finish. What they want to apply to the front, I am still not clear.