2014 Bahrain GP: Free Practice whinging thread

[Rishu]

[Reikai]

Has anyone got nice stream?

FORZA KIMI FORZA FERNANDO !

[Hornet]

This one is working for me at the moment
http://www.vipboxasia.co/motorsports...am-online.html

[Senna4Ever]

Let it Roll ...

[shamim179]

This will be a difficult race for us. Williams are confident of a podium results. They used substantially less fuel than others in Malaysia so they fueled their car too much.

I expect the pecking order to be:

Mercedes >> Williams >> Red Bull >> McLaren >> Ferrari

This track will expose our weaknesses even further. Don't know if McLaren are bringing updates for this race or not but if they do and work they should be faster than us even though we were faster than them in Malaysia. However, they may still have cooling issues so at best we can be the 4th fastest team. We need to have a perfect weekend.

[shamim179]

We are very close to Red Bull in terms of race pace. I estimate 1-2 tenths off based on the performances in Malaysia.

[Reikai]

Is that true that we used only 70% engine in Australia,80 in Malaysia and now we are expecting to use 90%?Also we are expecting to use full power+updates on car in China/Barcelona?

[SinanOzerS]

Is that true that we used only 70% engine in Australia,80 in Malaysia and now we are expecting to use 90%?Also we are expecting to use full power+updates on car in China/Barcelona?

I don't think so.There's no reason that we weren't use the full power of our engines.

[zike]

I don't think so.There's no reason that we weren't use the full power of our engines.

we did use the full power of our engine, but not the full power of ERS

[Reikai]

Reason is that we COULDN'T use it,no that we don't want that.It's according to pitwalltalk.

Retweeted PitLaneTalk (@pitlanetalk):

Ferrari could run the MGU-K at 60% in Melbourne, and at 70% in Sepang. 80% expected in Bahrain, but full potential only for Barcelona.

Retweeted PitLaneTalk (@pitlanetalk):

There will not be any major aero upgrades for Ferrari until China or Barcelona. Focus is now on optimizing MGU-K and power delivery.

[Jas]

God I love back to back races, expecting a difficult weekend, but my god I cant wait!

[fratelliferrari]

Let's go! Forza Ferrari

[Jas]

This one is working for me at the moment
http://www.vipboxasia.co/motorsports...am-online.html

Is yours still working...not showing anything atm for me

[Reikai]

Yeah its working.Just refresh if few times.

[WS6TransAm01]

Streaming no workie on ipad

[Reikai]

According to pitlanetalk we will have 100% ERS and new upgrades in Spain so if we don't improve our position in Barcelona that would really means that this season is over...

[Jas]

yh it still doesn't appear to want to work, never mind, I hope you guys will keep me informed :)

[shamim179]

Another 10% increase in our ERS output will bring us around 2 tenths. It should also improve our straight line speed so we can attack and defend better. We should be extremely close to Red Bull. Ironically, the characteristics of our car are quite similar to them.

[Jas]

hmmm 2 tenths isn't quite 7tenths tho! maybe they just have an inherently significant PU which no software fix can do!

[Reikai]

I hope we can beat Redbull on this circuit ! Their engine sucks,there is many straight so I hope that another ERS increase help us to beat them.

Rosberg has a problem.Good for us ;)

[LAROSA SpA]

These streams never work on iOS

[fratelliferrari]

Smedley!

[Jas]

God dammit link, why u not work waaaaaaaaaaaa

[DJTaurus]

Working
http://sportcategory.tv/moto_gp/f1-g...hrain-fs41b78#

Any from skysports?

[Reikai]

I expect Force India are going to be strong here...Maybe even first team behind Mercedes.

[Ed Harley]

I don't know what their secret is but the RBR looks just completely stable at turn in, mid corner and corner exit as well.

[shamim179]

Red Bull bringing more updates? Flo vis paint on their car. They did this Malaysia. They are extremely confident and bullish about their prospects heading into the European leg of the championship.

Whereas we are still fiddling around with our ERS. We better hurry up!

[Unbannable II]

Adrian Newey is their secret.

[Jas]

Sky F1 analyst Hughes has learnt that, in a highly complicated engineering feat, the team have successfully packaged their turbine and air compressor at either end of the W05's engine.

The innovative design - which, like the best ideas, sounds simple, is vastly complex and brilliantly effective - is believed to have been conceived over two years ago.

The revelation is also the best explanation yet for why the W05 has so far proved unbeatable in 2014, with Nico Rosberg's cruise to victory in Australia followed by Lewis Hamilton scoring F1's version of a hat-trick - pole position, the fastest lap of the race and victory - in Malaysia on Sunday.

Hughes has learnt that the Brackley team's ties with Mercedes High Performance Engines gave them a critical headstart at the start of F1's new turbo age.

F1 2014 - The Power Train
Looking to achieve the most aerodynamically efficient car possible, the Mercedes team had significant influence over power unit design created at the German manufacturer's engine base in Brixworth.

Writing in Motorsport magazine, Hughes discloses that Mercedes' breakthrough 'innovation is having the turbo's compressor at one end of the engine and the turbine at the other, linked by a long shaft through the vee of the engine'.

The 'trick turbo layout' triggers a series of critical performance benefits. A reduction in turbo lag means less power needs to be be harvested from the car's ERS unit to keep the turbine spooled off throttle. That in turn improves the efficiency of the car, with more power reserved for performance gain and less fuel consequentially used up.

Mercedes' customer teams all have the same advantage. However, because McLaren, Williams and Force India only took delivery of their power units relatively recently, they have had less time to work the layout into their respective car designs.

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But for the works outfit, the benefits of the W05's innovative layout has proved multifaceted.

With the compressor further away from the turbine - which is spun by hot exhaust gases - the W05 has a smaller intercooler, meaning Mercedes are running with smaller sidepods which boost aerodynamic performance.

Furthermore, with the compressor in front of the engine, Mercedes have also moved their car's gearbox forward, improving its centre of gravity and therefore, in theory, its handling.

But while Mercedes' rivals are aware of the championship leaders' secret, they are essentially powerless to react. The engines for 2014 are now in lock-down, with February 28 marking the agreed homologation date by which all the teams had to register their design for the new season with the governing body, the FIA.

The Mercedes power unit has been widely credited as being the critical performance differential in their victorious start to the new season. Red Bull boss Christian Horner claimed in Malaysia that his team was one second slower along the straights, with trackside observers estimating that the Mercedes unit boasts anything between 50 and 70 extra horsepower over the rest of the field.

[Senna4Ever]

Red Bull bringing more updates? Flo vis paint on their car. They did this Malaysia. They are extremely confident and bullish about their prospects heading into the European leg of the championship.

Whereas we are still fiddling around with our ERS. We better hurry up!

their speed of development is just frustrating ...
and it never feels that something new put on the car not paid off ...