Bahrain Grand Prix 2015 - Free Practice Thread

**WS6TransAm01** · 17th April 2015, 17:34

Originally Posted by SinanOzerS

Wow. Kimi and Lewis doing something wrong looks like.

went around the back of the Souber to get out of the pit.

**zike** · 17th April 2015, 17:34

Merc is faster in the race sim too

**Nero Horse** · 17th April 2015, 17:35

Again Kimi has problems with the Sauber...damn.

**fronaldo** · 17th April 2015, 17:35

Not so good Friday for Vettel

**Kyss4k** · 17th April 2015, 17:36

Originally Posted by zike

Merc is faster in the race sim too

Not really

**SashAlex** · 17th April 2015, 17:36

It seems you are not even allowed to fart in F1 without a permission and investigation from the stewards... Jeez! They're grown men, not children in the kindergarden. I didn't see anything wrong in Kimi taking that line exiting the pits.

**Nero Horse** · 17th April 2015, 17:36

Originally Posted by zike

Merc is faster in the race sim too

No, they're not.

**KimiBot** · 17th April 2015, 17:36

10.000 euro fines, I think not more than that (for Kimi and Lewis)

**zike** · 17th April 2015, 17:38

Originally Posted by Nero Horse

No, they're not.

it seemed to me they are.......would be most happy if I am wrong

**Ilsan** · 17th April 2015, 17:39

What a eventful day it was. New ICE for our boys, a few too many mechanical issues for Seb, on track incidents, pitlane incidents

Hope neither of them pick up a penalty.

On the bright side, Ferrari's long run pace looks good, however reliable it is.

**Smintlemon** · 17th April 2015, 17:39

Race pace is fantastic

**Nero Horse** · 17th April 2015, 17:40

Can't see any serious penalties coming for our drivers, perhaps some penalty points on the driver's license, that should be all. If anything more then that would be just ridiculous.

**fronaldo** · 17th April 2015, 17:42

So many problem in a day..Just hope reliability still strong enough

**Alonso14** · 17th April 2015, 17:44

Originally Posted by zike

Cant be Seb's fault...

The stewards will take a look at the telemetry. If it shows that there wasn't any loss of braking power but rather Seb made a mistake there could be a penalty coming his way. But there is tendency not to hit top drivers with heavy penalties (think for Alonso last year in Spa. That could have been a black flag) so even if he is penalized it won't be more than a fine or 3/5-place grid drop. (and I doubt it would be a grid drop)

**Fabulous** · 17th April 2015, 17:44

Hopefully no penalties for our drivers. Also hoping reliability will be good to go for the race.

**Fireblade** · 17th April 2015, 17:45

Lot's of niggling issues on Seb's car - busy night ahead for the mechanics I'd say. Too bad as our pace looks quite promising.

**fronaldo** · 17th April 2015, 17:46

According to Marc Surer..Vettel right front wheel not properly fitted..Wow..

**Nero Horse** · 17th April 2015, 17:47

**zike** · 17th April 2015, 17:51

Originally Posted by fronaldo

According to Marc Surer..Vettel right front wheel not properly fitted..Wow..

Was it just after the pit exit?

**Kristof_F40** · 17th April 2015, 17:53

The problem will be that tyres suffer if you're behind someone, in Malaysia, we won because we could do one stop less, not sure if it will be possible here, so assuming we will start behind Mercs, we need to overtake them with an undercut I think

**fronaldo** · 17th April 2015, 17:55

Originally Posted by zike

Was it just after the pit exit?

Yeah..that cause Vettel had some sort of brake failure because of loose wheel

**PURE PASSION** · 17th April 2015, 17:55

Andrew Benson ‏@andrewbensonf1
If you compare the first eight laps of soft-tyre race-sim runs of ROS & VET, Ferrari is 0.6secs on average quicker... #BBCF1

**Alonso14** · 17th April 2015, 17:55

Originally Posted by zike

Was it just after the pit exit?

Yeah.

Originally Posted by fronaldo

According to Marc Surer..Vettel right front wheel not properly fitted..Wow..

That would be really bad. Unsafe released are really frowned upon in the last couple of years but in Arrivabene we trust. He managed to use his influence in AUS GP so Kimi isn't given a penalty, hopefully he can do it again

**Ilsan** · 17th April 2015, 18:04

Originally Posted by fronaldo

According to Marc Surer..Vettel right front wheel not properly fitted..Wow..

Really hope this is not true. We'd become a repeat offender. It won't go down well with the stewards, especially as the pitwall were not aware of it and it led to a track incident to make it worse

**PURE PASSION** · 17th April 2015, 18:09

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CCzsYNYWgAEpXwI.mp4

**fronaldo** · 17th April 2015, 18:10

Originally Posted by Ilsan

Really hope this is not true. We'd become a repeat offender. It won't go down well with the stewards, especially as the pitwall were not aware of it and it led to a track incident to make it worse

I hope so..But it has video evidence
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CCzsYNYWgAEpXwI.mp4