Australian GP 2014 Friday and Saturday practice thread

[Jose Lorca]

Merc were helped by conditions. If we improved by the same as Rosberg, we would be 0.7 behind Rosberg.


The guys who went out earliest:
Hulkenburg and Rosberg improved by 2.1
Button improved by 1.9

The guys who went out a few mintues later:
Magnussen improved by 1.4
Ricciardo improved by 1.3, then found another 0.3 later
Alonso improved by 1.3
Raikkonen improved by 1.2
Bianchi improved by 1.2
Chilton improved by 1.6
Perez improved by 1.5
Kobayashi improved by 1.0
Kvyat improved by 0.7

[Majki2111]

Conditions were different?

Hopefully we didn't ***** up the setup.

Will they have time to make a change?

[Winter]

Guys. You know what. The reality is. We have seen this pattern for the last few seasons. Justify it with any reason or excuse you can. Ferrari doesn't build fast F1 cars anymore. It's like deja vu. At the start of the season we never fastest. Everybody here says it's too early to tell. Give us time. But at the end of it all we never recover. No matter how early we shift focus to the next years car.

We just don't build and design them like we used to. I'm looking forward to this season due to new rules and what not but honestly I love my team. But history has proven if we don't hit the ground running in front. We never really catch up.

I hope I'm wrong. But I've done that for the last few years and we've sucked. We are Ferrari. The epitome of car design and engine design. The oldest most respected team in F1. We should be in front. It's in our DNA.

This year we have the most important tool what we didn't have last year, working wind tunnel. With out that developing car during season is just
shooting to the dark, testing new parts only to see that they suck at track.

[Nero Horse]

But history has proven if we don't hit the ground running in front. We never really catch up.

Then why do all the teams go through a long F1 season to determine the winner? Might as well just have one race, see who's fastest in that one race and then pack up and go home. It would be so simple, just see who's got the fastest car and then say "aaah, ok so they have the fastest car, so that must mean that they would win every other race and the championship, so there's really no point in going through a whole season." LOL

And you're wrong when you said "if we don't hit the ground running then we can't catch up"...there have been many occasions when some team hasn't had the best of starts to the season, but in the end have still managed to win the championships. So there is always hope and you never know what can happen.

[Kyss4k]

Then why do all the teams go through a long F1 season to determine the winner? Might as well just have one race, see who's fastest in that one race and then pack up and go home. It would be so simple, just see who's got the fastest car and then say "aaah, ok so they have the fastest car, so that must mean that they would win every other race and the championship, so there's really no point in going through a whole season." LOL

And you're wrong when you said "if we don't hit the ground running then we can't catch up"...there have been many occasions when some team hasn't had the best of starts to the season, but in the end have still managed to win the championships. So there is always hope and you never know what can happen.

He was talking about us in recent years.

[Ferris]

Let's just get to the end of the race tomorrow. We have a lot of work to do and once we get the PU right we will be well placed to actually put up a fight.
The good thing is we are not the only ones with problems and with some luck perhaps those ahead of us have some attrition issues.

[Nero Horse]

He was talking about us in recent years.

Yes, I know that.

[Laferrari]

No mistake, we're just slow.

We are not slow yesterday alo do a 1.30.1 7tenth faster than today.i am pretty sure the engine is not on full power.i was watching fp3 with speed and sector and based on that .WE ARE NOT ON FULL POWER.it just free practice not qualy we will be at least 3or 4 depend on what williams have in the bag because they are very fast....faster than redbull and mclaren

[Laferrari]

There was something wrong with Vettels car, no way he would be so much slower than Ricciardo.

Mistake for him we was faster than riccardo ....based on sector time

[DIEK]

There was something wrong with Vettels car, no way he would be so much slower than Ricciardo.

This is what happens when you take away the tricks of the car, Vettel can't drive without them.

[Senna4Ever]

There was something wrong with Vettels car, no way he would be so much slower than Ricciardo.

An unknown issue with the engine ... according to team radio
Was not able to accelerate correctly. Team radio didn't sound very optimistic.

[stefa]

Just woke up, good morning to every1.
Hmm... What to say about Ferrari... I'll, fot the moment will not comment on it...

[Aruba]

Raikkonen into the wall... Not the fairy tale start @ Ferrari...