Jerez Test - Day Two

3rd & 7 37yd

It was a generous setup :)

by Steve Z 2/2/2015 12:09:56 PM
Vettel wearing a white helmet with a German flag color reminds me so much of Michael's first year with the prancing horse back in '96. Can Seb brings Ferrari back to the front just like Schumi did back then, Nate?

by SchumiTheGreatest 2/2/2015 12:09:57 PM
@SchumiTheGreatest: The parallels to Schumacher are certainly plentiful. His ability of giving good testing feedback will be helpful but I think the comparison to Schumacher will actually be an unhelpful hindrance on his time at Ferrari, especially the early days and certainly if he is not winning races regularly by 2016.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:11:28 PM
can Red Bull do better than last year?

by Mr Rayson 2/2/2015 12:11:59 PM
@MrRayson: It can, definitely. Daniel Ricciardo sounded quietly confident about the step forward made by Renault this winter.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:12:42 PM
Waste of time, basically?

by Racing Fan 2/2/2015 12:13:18 PM
@RacingFan: Well, some laps are always better than no laps. There will be a bit of Renault work they can do and start procedures.

Laurence has just pointed out to me that jacking the front might be tricky at a pit stop without a front wing...

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:14:44 PM
It'll be a medium-shod run up next for @LewisHamilton - 73 laps on the board so far... #Working9to5 #BackToWork #SechsyBeast #F1

by Mercedes-AMG F1 via twitter 2/2/2015 12:15:30 PM
So we can expect to see the world champion back out on track soon, and you can assume that's another medium-to-long run being planned by Mercedes.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:15:59 PM
@Nate Saunders; Although Daniel was confident, Adrian wasn't, whose opinion would you consider more valid?

by zac 2/2/2015 12:16:02 PM
@zac: Their opinions and what they say to the media are probably very different! Smoke and mirrors.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:16:21 PM
The battle between Kimi and Seb might be like the one with Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen, don't you think?

by Snow 2/2/2015 12:16:28 PM
@Snow: Nice comparison, though Mike and MSC obviously never had the same car.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:16:45 PM
Hamilton is now out on track with Verstappen and Maldonado.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:17:18 PM
So far about engines: Mercedes 327 laps, Ferrari 212 laps, Renault 153 laps and Honda 11 laps :D

by hacke 2/2/2015 12:18:16 PM
hope alonso would be able to do more laps and show the true potential of the car tmr

by xanbex 2/2/2015 12:18:22 PM
Who else is doing long runs apart from Mercedes?

by AngrymanXIII 2/2/2015 12:18:53 PM
@AngrymanXIII: Mercedes is doing longer runs than all its rivals. Toro Rosso and Sauber have been quietly accumulating mileage today as well.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:19:20 PM
On the same car who wins? MSC or Mika Hakkinen?

by Snow 2/2/2015 12:19:55 PM
Now there's a question.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:20:00 PM
i do like the black label less tires :)

by xanbex 2/2/2015 12:20:04 PM
The Lotus looks very bulbous around the engine cover and sidepods, didn't they agree their Merc deal late last season? Perhaps haven't fine-tuned the chassis-to-engine yet?

by kaminokiller 2/2/2015 12:20:40 PM
@kaminokiller: I'll answer that with the words of team technical chief Nick Chester:

"In terms of what's new, obviously a massive change for us is a new power unit supplier. We made this change as it looked and looks to be the one area of the car which could bring us the greatest performance gain. It's not just performance, but reliability and driveability as well as packaging and cooling too. The E22 did deliver good figures in the wind tunnel, even if it was difficult to unlock its potential, so we've paid more attention to making the characteristics of the car more adaptable."

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:22:03 PM
Basically, the E23 is an evolution of last year's car rather than a complete do-over. They are adapting to the Mercedes power unit and worked over the winter at making sure the car adapts well to the change.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:22:39 PM
Is Vettel running with little fuel? There's no way to know I suppose...

by Paolo Gagliardi 2/2/2015 12:22:44 PM
@PaoloGagliardi: Nope, unfortunately there isn't any way to know.
I would wager Ferrari has been running lower fuel but there's also engine modes to consider.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:23:12 PM
@Snow: Depends on the car. If the car is really up there, then Hakkinen would be a fair bet, but if the car is a handful then i'd blindly put my money on MSC. He had a way of driving around a car's issues, much like his successor Alonso

by Siddhesh 2/2/2015 12:23:20 PM
hi, any issue with vettel ?

by joe 2/2/2015 12:23:55 PM
@joe: Not that we know of, but we haven't seen the German in over an hour.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:24:15 PM
Hamilton pumping out the laps once again - his most recent a 1:23.9s followed by a 1:24.2s, suggesting his Mercedes is on a longer run with more fuel.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:25:20 PM
About pushing "a piece of crap" up to speed I just say Ronnie Peterson.

by hacke 2/2/2015 12:25:22 PM
@Nate: yes, however that 1.20.9 was unexpected

by Paolo Gagliardi 2/2/2015 12:25:28 PM
@Snow I think Hakkinen always had the car with the most problems and yet he challenged Michael until the end

by paul 2/2/2015 12:25:32 PM
While we all know that the Merc is reliable, am quite surprised that their competitors haven't made more of an attempt to rack up the mileage. We haven't really seen that many stoppages, so does that mean they are happy to run less? Or does it indicate that they might be facing issues behind closed doors?

by Siddhesh 2/2/2015 12:25:46 PM
@Siddhesh: Mercedes is exuding confidence in both its power unit and the W06 Hybrid at the moment and that's showing in these stints.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:26:19 PM
Kvyat returns to the circuit for some more wingless action, while Hamilton keeps pumping out the laps.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:26:51 PM
Am amazed that Redbull keep sending Kvyat out. How much can you really learn without a front wing?! Surely the lap times must be all over the place...

by Siddhesh 2/2/2015 12:28:20 PM
@Siddhesh: We were talking briefly about it earlier - we came to the conclusion that some laps were always going to be better than no laps. There are some things the team can look at but he's really made a mess of their second day of testing.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:28:58 PM
Obviously the teams that opt to not run longer runs have already trusted their car to provide them with reliability for the future. Ferrari for example have been very good in terms of reliability during the season, so maybe that's the reason why they can now start to focus more on performance.

by gabrielbingei 2/2/2015 12:29:33 PM
is ferrari doing the same thing as they do normally in friday practice? low fuel runs to get first place to please the sponsors?

by sss 2/2/2015 12:30:14 PM
Bottas enters the fray now himself.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:30:24 PM
Vettel's car this year looks much better than his red bull last year

by fcuk 2/2/2015 12:30:29 PM
Whats happening with Ferrari? No lap times for a long time!

by anagh 2/2/2015 12:31:39 PM
@NateSaunders: If Mclaren-Honda is struggling with initial problems now and are stuck solving them with limited track time in testing, how reliable will the car be during the course of the season given that the problems faced now are just the beginning?

by SD 2/2/2015 12:32:21 PM
@SD: That's always going to be an issue, testing is really for troubleshooting and overcoming any gremlins the car has early on.

by Nate Saunders 2/2/2015 12:32:45 PM

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