2010 Testing Thread

Okay then, so we have a thread for the car launches and we have a thread of who's driving for who and what tracks we have. Figured we might as well have a testing thread too here are all the testing dates for the 2010 Formula One season.

1-3 February - Circuito Ricardo Tormo
10-13 February - Circuito Permanente de Jerez
17-20 February - Circuito Permanente de Jerez
25-28 February - Circuit de Catalunya

Today at the first day of testing, we see the new cars take to the track for the first time, probably mostly only installation laps but who cares. F1 is back! Here's who's out on track today.

McLaren Gary Paffett
Mercedes Nico Rosberg (morning), Michael Schumacher (afternoon)
Ferrari Felipe Massa
Sauber Pedro de la Rosa
Williams Rubens Barrichello
Renault Robert Kubica
Toro Rosso Sébastien Buemi

Here's a gallery from autosport to start us off:
[www.autosport.com]

And another from GPupdate:
[f1.gpupdate.net]

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Circuit Thermalito

Liverpool Waterfront Circuit (WIP)




Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2010 11:07AM by Fincent.

so far Paffet has done 1,14,359 and is the fastest. you can check times from:
[www.f1-direct.com]
[www.motor21.com]
[www.f1today.nl]

I wonder why G. Paffett is there instead of Button and The Ham, most teams have their main drivers there, tbh I do not see any point in using test drivers these days anyway, testing is so restricted that the main drivers will hardly feel overworked.

gin Wrote:
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> I wonder why G. Paffett is there instead of Button
> and The Ham, most teams have their main drivers
> there, tbh I do not see any point in using test
> drivers these days anyway, testing is so
> restricted that the main drivers will hardly feel
> overworked.

And not only that but Paffet was not the main test driver as the testing was mainly done by Pedro de la Rosa so is double risky.

James Allen has set up a twitter feed that shows all the tweets live from Valencia

[twitter.jamesallenonf1.com]

Quite a good service

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X (@ed24f1)

And you can check the times for yourself here.

would be a bummer for Kubica if this years Sauber is good.

Apparently this channel will show live when Schumacher gets in:

[www.n-tv.de]

Anyone else notice hardly anyone is running their new diffuser.

marcl Wrote:
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> Anyone else notice hardly anyone is running their
> new diffuser.


well ferrari and mclaren are using new ones. ferrari has triple diffusor and mclaren has god knows how many [img3.imageshack.us]

Schumi on track soon I believe! Watching live via that link above.. /\

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MS on track now

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Ali Wrote:
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> gin Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > I wonder why G. Paffett is there instead of
> Button
> > and The Ham, most teams have their main drivers
> > there, tbh I do not see any point in using test
> > drivers these days anyway, testing is so
> > restricted that the main drivers will hardly
> feel
> > overworked.
>
> And not only that but Paffet was not the main test
> driver as the testing was mainly done by Pedro de
> la Rosa so is double risky.



you would also have thought that two champions like Lewis and Jenson would want to spend as much time in the car as they can before this season, guess not.

Just came from the Track, and it was pretty good. Toro Rosso seems to have problems, as they did like 3-4 laps. The quickuest is Massa as he made 1.13.7 by my stopwatch. I'll post later some pics, but they're crap, as my camera...

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Wedding and Motorsports Photography.

Interestingly, Schumacher is already within 3 hundredths of Rosberg's best time from this morning.

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X (@ed24f1)

19 laps done and he's ahead.

FAVOURITISM!

Crappy pics from this morning...



Camera has 6 years. Was the first 3,2MP from Sony

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raulgullon.com -
Wedding and Motorsports Photography.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2010 04:19PM by raulongo.

omfg, didn't expect him to be so fast right from the beginning

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schumi already have done faster than Nico

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Wedding and Motorsports Photography.

thanks a lot, Raul.
As you said, the Toro Rosso have problems. Can you - maybe - tell us, if some other teams or cars have some problems. I mean, if some cars seem to be fast in fast or slowcorners or so? Something about the balance or the speed?