Bahrain testing 27 Feb-2 Mar

[tifosi1993]

New sidepod fins on the Mercedes

[Rosso Corsa]

Once again we are not testing!!!!!just 12 laps!!!

You can't change something on the car if it's out on the track. Trust they were 12 laps well spent.

[PURE PASSION]

skysports:
Just twelve laps from Ferrari. No word from the Scuderia to explain their relative lack of running - and no sign, either, with the ever-present screens going up to ward off all our prying eyes !!!!

[medeni73]

maybe they're bolting new updates at last...

[PadGeT]

The bodywork leading to the exhaust, replacing the shark fin with an opening. I haven't seen it before but I don't pay much attention to Mercs so maybe it's not a new update.

Awfully hard to see from that angle whether its the tail end of the fin or a slit for cooling like we have.

[PURE PASSION]

You can't change something on the car if it's out on the track. Trust they were 12 laps well spent.

Me 2nd thought was that we must doing o lot of work in the garage for such a delay!!

[LivingHitokiri]

Maybe we gonna test some upgrades that we brought ?? Preparing for Race simulation and such ?

[anialonso]

any news please..??
why are we still in the garage..

[LivingHitokiri]

“Ferrari need to find a little bit of reliability, but they need to find a little bit of pace as well. They don’t really know where they are, they can see where Mercedes are and they think once they start turning everything up to ten or 11 that they will be there or there about. I think we are looking at Mercedes, then Ferrari and then McLaren.

I wonder what reliability issues we got that Ted mentions. He think we are ahead of Mclaren, he must know something.

Edit: To add more

“We are expecting to see the latest aerodynamic parts for Australia, but they haven’t appeared on the cars yet. I have only seen small bits here and there. But we are hearing talk of a new nose at Ferrari, a tweak on the front of the Mercedes, the kitchen sink being thrown at the Red Bull and changes to the others as well. They will be very low in terms of the number of parts they have so they will probably only put them on the final two days.”

Hmmm new nose?

[Hornet]

Ted from Skysports opinion on testing so far.

Ted Kravitz has been telling the Sky Sports News viewers just how crucial these final four days of pre-season testing are for the teams:

“We are talking about the biggest rule changes in living memory in F1 and this is really the teams’ last chance to get their acts together before the first race. By the time they leave the Bahrain test on Sunday they will know if they are in for a brilliant season or a season where they will be climbing up several mountains and trying to get on top of some reliability and some performance. So this is an absolutely crucial four days to find some reliability or performance or in the case of World Champions Red Bull, both!”

As for the potential pecking order…

“Mercedes certainly seem to have the pace, but do they have the reliability? Even they are saying ‘we are not as reliable as we would have hoped.’ So at the front we are looking at Mercedes looking the strongest – I don’t think there is any doubt about that – and at the back we have the Marussia. It is really a sign of how serious the teams are starting to get that we are starting to need our ear protectors as they turn up the power on both the electric and petrol motors.

“Ferrari need to find a little bit of reliability, but they need to find a little bit of pace as well. They don’t really know where they are, they can see where Mercedes are and they think once they start turning everything up to ten or 11 that they will be there or there about. I think we are looking at Mercedes, then Ferrari and then McLaren.

“McLaren need to prove that their good lap times at the second test were representative and they think they are actually ahead of Ferrari – we will see by the end of the week.”

Ted is also not expecting to see any major upgrades on the cars until the weekend:

“We are expecting to see the latest aerodynamic parts for Australia, but they haven’t appeared on the cars yet. I have only seen small bits here and there. But we are hearing talk of a new nose at Ferrari, a tweak on the front of the Mercedes, the kitchen sink being thrown at the Red Bull and changes to the others as well. They will be very low in terms of the number of parts they have so they will probably only put them on the final two days.”

[S1000RR]

ZXKLs83.jpg

Look at that complex front wing compared to our F14T

[Senna4Ever]

Just 12 laps...?

no panic
we need to stay calm
and focus on ourself!

so no panic ...

[ManFromMilan]

Have we come out yet with the new updates?

[SinanOzerS]

Have we come out yet with the new updates?

How can it be possible ? We're just did 12 laps.

[LivingHitokiri]

Whoo there! Ferrari have been going along just fine so far in testing. They don't look the quickest, and they don't have the (apparent) advantage of a Mercedes engine, but their car looks to be anything but a dud. That said, the one cautionary of note I would add is that the car looks very slippery out on track. Kimi mentioned "the car has a lot of torque" after his crash last week and it's been - so far at least - more of an apparent handful than either the McLaren or Mercedes. A long way to go, though...

It seems many people from media believe that Ferrari is doing or can do better than we see, the fans are wondering while the media is quite positive about our performance .

[F2002]

ZXKLs83.jpg

Look at that complex front wing compared to our F14T

More complex is not necessarily better mate.

[S1000RR]

More complex is not necessarily better mate.

Not saying that :) just interested in the different approach

[PadGeT]

hole.png

Whats with the holes again on the chassis front? Cooling??

[Hornet]

Wonder what's going on in Ferrari's garage. Not another telemetry problem I hope

[pluto]

More complex is not necessarily better mate.

ye right thats why redbull have been so slow over the last 5 years and we have been so fast? Look at the difference in wings, ours CONTINUE to be primative I just dont understand what on earth we are doing. The front of the car is most important where all the airflow starts.

[LivingHitokiri]

hole.png

Whats with the holes again on the chassis front? Cooling??

More like Aerodynamic adjustment, i highly doubt there is any cooling benefit from that....

Wonder what's going on in Ferrari's garage. Not another telemetry problem I hope

It seems the Italian press claims that Ferrari got some some electronic issues.....

[Hornet]

It seems the Italian press claims that Ferrari got some some electronic issues.....

Sigh. Better now than in the race I guess

[PadGeT]

Look at that complex front wing compared to our F14T

I don't know for sure, but maybe the kind of rear wing they are running , its enough for running similar front end downforce. Maybe it has to do with the nose ferrari are running creating a low pressure underneath it which is aiding a part of the front wing's stability , or maybe its the front end pull rod supension , the kind of wake they are angled at.

[Kyss4k]

Well, people laughed at RB and there we go. 12 laps. Fascinating...

[AfterLife]

If Mercedes 75 BHP advantage is true, IMO FIA will investigate the situation and if it was necessary FIA will give Renault or Ferrari the extra time to catch up.

[SinanOzerS]

No aerodynamic advantage, no reliability, no horse power; so ?

[F2002]

ye right thats why redbull have been so slow over the last 5 years and we have been so fast? Look at the difference in wings, ours CONTINUE to be primative I just dont understand what on earth we are doing. The front of the car is most important where all the airflow starts.

As far as I know, RBR's strength over the past five years has been towards the rear of the car, I'm sure you've read about their stronger ability to blow the diffuser, Coandă effect, rake, etc. etc. etc.

[PadGeT]

More like Aerodynamic adjustment, i highly doubt there is any cooling benefit from that....

I guess so, if only we knew where they are leading to ..

[f1tomi8]

As reported by Ted Kravitz earlier, there's plenty of chat in the paddock that Ferrari might debut a new nose this week. That potential update was hinted at by Scuderia Technical Director James Allison when he addressed the press at Jerez:

"There is not too much similarity between the cars and the reason for that is that the nose rules allow quite a lot of geometrical freedom and there isn't a single solution to what isn't actually that sensitive an area. So there are a lot of solutions that do work.

"The team I was working with before have quite an aggressive solution and we have a different solution.

"We have looked at dozens and dozens of noses of all shapes and size and like any other part of the car it is free for us to develop and we will keep looking at it."

Could they take a very close look at a new design before the weekend is up?

[pluto]

As far as I know, RBR's strength over the past five years has been towards the rear of the car, I'm sure you've read about their stronger ability to blow the diffuser, Coandă effect, rake, etc. etc. etc.

where does the air to the rear come from? the front right?