Barcelona Test - Day Three

3rd & 7 37yd

If Kvyat is doing a race simulation he's not doing it very quickly. His soft tyre laps were way off the pace and he's now switched to the medium compound.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 1:52:27 PM
A full Red Bull pit wall - including Christian Horner - would indicate the team is doing a race simulation.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 1:52:49 PM
In some cases you can never win. After having said two at the very beginning, if Ferrari wold have said four now, we would have said that its going to their heads. As a fan I would say that they are going to win more than two races, just as long as they compete in front.

by Bart 2/21/2015 1:54:04 PM
Kvyat has switched to the medium tyre and his last lap was a 1:29.619 - which was quicker than he was lapping on the softs.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 1:58:19 PM
I'm a Ferrari fan thru and thru but i've come to respect Hammy's skills and what his personality brings to the Sport.

by Rodster 2/21/2015 1:58:34 PM
But this is competition... you're supposed to aim for the best and then get as much as you can... if you only want to reach a couple of wins then you're maybe not giving your best...

by ralva8 2/21/2015 1:58:40 PM
@ralva8: They're giving their best but they also appreciate how big the gap is to Mercedes. If you go into a season saying "We can win 10 races" and then don't win any, morale takes a big hit.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 1:59:11 PM
To compare with Kvyat, Vettel is also on mediums and his last laps were 1:29.2 before two 1:28.8s

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:00:24 PM
Wat happened to mclaren???

by Shiv 2/21/2015 2:01:46 PM
@Shiv: We haven't seen McLaren since lunch. Button stopped on track this morning and, even though he returned for another few laps, we are yet to hear what the problem is (or if there is one)

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:02:13 PM
Raiva. They are all in there to win and not just to make traffic. I would rather hear two and get four, rather than promising four and get two.

by Bart 2/21/2015 2:03:33 PM
Hamilton has gone out on track, sporting a set of medium tyres.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:10:00 PM
If vettel wins the Drivers Championship I'l be dam pissed

by XanBeX 2/21/2015 2:10:08 PM
Im betting cars will go up to 1.22 by the end of the next testing

by XanBeX 2/21/2015 2:10:11 PM
Bottas has taken over from Massa this afternoon, by the way.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:10:58 PM
Vettel is still out there on the mediums and just crossed with a 1:28.531.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:14:37 PM
Answering your poll. None of the drivers of the list will win faces in 2015.

by Racing Fan edited by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:14:44 PM
Vettel's latest a 1:28.827. Pretty consistent stuff from the four-time world champion.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:16:42 PM
Given how toro rosso (max) has beaten last year's pole by ~0.5 seconds, it should be clear that Mercedes, RB and Ferrari still have quite a bit in the bag despite posting similar times over the last two days.

by Turboy 2/21/2015 2:16:45 PM
how much time left

by ankur 2/21/2015 2:17:03 PM
@ankur: The session finishes a 1800 local time, in just under three hours.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:17:15 PM
Nate: Which car has a tighter rear packaging - McLaren or Red Bull?

by Dhruv 2/21/2015 2:18:49 PM
@Dhruv: The McLaren's isn't so tight its revolutionary, it's just a pretty radical design for McLaren. I think Red Bull's is slightly more compact..

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 2:19:21 PM
Hello! Apologies for the long delay without any updates.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:07:49 PM
I was at the Toro Rosso garage chatting to Carlos Sainz Jr. Very confident young man.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:08:06 PM
Maldonado has put Lotus top of the timesheets with on a super soft tyre run.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:09:22 PM
Nate. Any news from McLaren?

by kiran 2/21/2015 3:13:48 PM
@kiran: Not at the moment. Button is speaking to the media this evening and that'll likely be the most attended press call of the day. Lots of big questions for McLaren.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:14:22 PM
@Nate: It's something they put in the Red Bull driver's program's Red Bull drinks...

by mfbull 2/21/2015 3:14:30 PM
Have you even had the no calorie one? They gave me it as I left. Probably to make sure I never came back - horrid.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:14:50 PM
For those of you wondering how Bottas can do 22 laps without setting a time, these will all have bee followed by trips to the pit lane, meaning Williams has used the afternoon to do a spot of pit stop practice.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:15:29 PM
by Fernando Alonso via twitter 2/21/2015 3:19:35 PM
Can you compare the Medium tyre running timing between Vettel and Hamilton? I think Ferrari also doing a race simulation and Seb did a better timing then Kvyat with Medium

by Senthil 2/21/2015 3:20:03 PM
As you can see, the order hasn't changed for a while. Only the lap counter changing at the time being. Buton has just trundled back into the pit lane.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:48:51 PM
@GustavoEchenagucia: Mercedes has still accumulated more laps. From what I've heard in the paddock, the engine Renault is running now is basically the one it plans to homologate next week - therefore its effectively its race engine for Australia. So anything extra Mercedes shows next week would be very telling.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:50:18 PM
by Sauber F1 Team via twitter 2/21/2015 3:50:35 PM
I have an upgrade on why McLaren's running has been so limited.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:51:11 PM
Upgrade? Update.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:51:18 PM
Someone find me a Red Bull can.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:51:31 PM
After the morning session, we found similar issues to Thursday. We will now resume testing this afternoon with limited power to the MGU-K.

by McLaren via twitter 2/21/2015 3:51:44 PM
A new re-engineered seal is scheduled to arrive and will be applied later this evening. #F1Testing

by McLaren via twitter 2/21/2015 3:51:45 PM
So that means McLaren will be out again later this evening.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:51:58 PM
Ericsson moves up to fourth on the soft tyre, slotting in behind Hamilton. Verstappen has just clocked lap number 120.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:55:09 PM
Out again later? Isn't it already close to end of day?

by sat edited by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:55:17 PM
@sat: Just over an hour left, yes. But every lap is crucial at this stage so McLaren will go out when it can - even if just for a lap.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:55:49 PM
Honda tends to build performance first then add reliability. Problem is there is not a lot of testing time available.

by Michael 2/21/2015 3:55:53 PM
I think Max Verstappen is awesome considering the age he is

by Max edited by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:55:58 PM
As its tough to infer much about the race pace as of now and with limited number of laps the McLaren has put in, I would really like to know the positives that McLaren has in your purview, except of the fact of a strong driver line-up.

by Sitank 2/21/2015 3:57:07 PM
@Sitank: McLaren is demonstrating exactly what testing is for. It knows it's not going to be in an ideal position in Melbourne - it's known that from the moment it signed with Honda for this year. The biggest benefit of Honda, and the main motivator for the switch, is that McLaren is no longer a customer outfit to another team on the grid. Ron Dennis said in the modern world of F1 a customer team could never win a championship and he's right.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:58:33 PM
With the personnel at the disposal of both teams, too, it won't be long until things get back on track.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 3:58:56 PM
As a Ferrari fan Its sad to see a McLaren one of the most successful team in history of F1 to start at this low reliability. They should have continued with Mercedes until Honda perfected their power unit. Hope for some kind of miracle from now till Australia.

by Bart 2/21/2015 3:59:59 PM
@Bart: Honda cannot perfect its power unit if it does not have a car to put it in.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 4:00:11 PM
We have another stoppage at the end of the pit lane.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 4:38:40 PM
It's Verstappen's Toro Rosso.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 4:39:17 PM
This red flag could is likely to take us to the final ten minutes. Fifteen minutes remain and everyone waits patiently to see if they can complete any final laps.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 4:45:57 PM
@Turboy: Usually a pit wall is fully functional, with every team member there, and a team will complete stints you would expect to see in a race, at consistent pace. You can tell when you're here which teams are doing a race sim from what's happening out there.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 4:46:49 PM
Red flag halts proceedings. It may be a bit of a scramble for the pit lane once the session goes green again! Every lap counts #FeelTheForce

by Sahara Force India via twitter 2/21/2015 4:47:47 PM
Green flag just as we hit the final minutes.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 4:50:28 PM
wats the closing time for todays testing

by vishwa 2/21/2015 4:50:59 PM
1800 at all the Barcelona tests.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 4:51:06 PM
Button one of the drivers to venture out for late lap.

by Nate Saunders 2/21/2015 4:53:21 PM

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