Pre-Season Testing

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:22 am

Why is Schuey doing 120+ laps in an old car? Are Ferrarri developing 3 cars
for 05 ? Am I getting paranoid about paranoia ? Please let it be a close season, or its F1 boats for me.

Ed · Post by Ed » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:40 am

julian mayo wrote:Why is Schuey doing 120+ laps in an old car? Are Ferrarri developing 3 cars
for 05 ?

Michael was tyre testing and I suspect they don't have the second F2004M ready yet.
Keep in mind that Ferrari are the only top team running Bridgestones. They've got to do all the testing.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:50 am

the wee hairs on the back of my neck are not lying down yet

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:08 pm

But Schumacher's time isn't even quick. What are you worried about ?

I know so many years of domination and one thinks they'll never be beaten. They will be beaten!
Actually Ferrari's performance at the end of last year wasn't that great and yet they are still starting with the old car. Some of the other teams stopped developing their cars and concentrated on this year.
The times are very encouraging.

Had a bit of a laugh reading some of the quotes from the different teams (thanks guys for having all those reports)

Trulli (when was asked how the car was performing)
"Our best times compared quite favourably with the others, but there are still some problems with consistency over longer runs"

Perhaps the problem is with the driver

Andrew Alsworth (BAR)
"We have a few reliability issues to sort out and are confident that these can be addressed during the next few tests"

Sure they'll drop the revs on that grenade

Funny the guy from Honda says "looking forward to putting the engine through its paces at a different style of circuit next week in Jerez"

But Jerez is a quiker circuit .... more grenades going off!!

Norbert Haug (McLaren) "I wouldn't read too much into the lap times"

Now Graham will get worried !!!

Apparently the problem with the McLaren on the first day was due to some interference with the circuit timing.
"Pedro's first day of testing in MP4-20 was affected by problems with the car's systems, caused by embedded time apparatus at the Valencia circuit."

Very sensitive. I hope Ferrari don't build something to intefere with the McLaren

And What's up with Webber ?

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:22 pm

Foxing

He's got Schuey worried already

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:02 pm

Personally i don`t take much notice at all about test times. History has shown more often than not, that test times don`t translate to race form very often.

Let`s just see what happens come race day...

VTEC · Post by **VTEC** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:42 pm

True, testing is just that. Unless you are an insider, it is impossibe to tell what the teams are doing. But since the only action these days is testing, I enjoy reading the times and speculating!

Graham Ross · Post by **Graham Ross** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:52 pm

JayVee wrote:Norbert Haug (McLaren) "I wouldn't read too much into the lap times"

Now Graham will get worried !!!

Hey if the new car can go that fast, I'm happy and as I said before Montoya would be even faster

But I am worried about that embedded timing apparatus.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:03 am

BBC news today quoted Trulli as saying that" the Toyota was quick, but chews up its tyres", ... not good with the new regs

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:16 am

julian mayo wrote:BBC news today quoted Trulli as saying that" the Toyota was quick, but chews up its tyres", ... not good with the new regs

That's interesting. Gascoyne designed the Renault and it was gentle on tyres. Wondering what happened.

Or it may be just a case of Trulli getting confused again

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:53 am

According to Trulli , Gascoyne also designed the Jordan he drove, which was also a tyre shredder

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:31 pm

Come to think of it, Gascoyne must like Trulli. They've been together at Jordan, Renault and now Toyota .... and if the Toyota is slow both will be kicked out next year together with Ralfie of course

I hate waiting for the next test

FerrariFan#1 · Post by **FerrariFan#1** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:03 pm

Gascoyne has an excellent record (just look at Renault) so he'll get it right and I have a strong feeling that Toyota will be the surprise of the season. How about 4 red cars in the top 4

Trulli and Ralf need some TLC, they never had it

Ed · Post by Ed » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:00 am

First day of testing from Jerez and it was Felipe Massa who set the fastest time of the day with a best time of 1:17.501. That is the fastest time on this track by a 2005 spec car but is nearly 1.5 seconds slower than the best time set this year by Alex Wurz in the MP4/20

Driver Team Best Time Laps
Felipe Massa Sauber 1.17.501 66
Jarno Trulli Toyota 1.17.699 58
Ricardo Zonta Toyota 1.18.177 52
Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren 1:18.248 37
Pedro de la Rosa McLaren 1:18.554 75
Fernando Alonso Renault 1:18.676 123
Nick Heidfeld Williams 1.18.807 99
Mark Webber Williams 1:18.987 81
Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 1.19.220 39
David Coulthard Red Bull Racing 1:19.366 42
Luca Badoer Ferrari 1:19.724 62
Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:19.842 86
Chritian Klien Red Bull Racing 1:19.975 51
Anthony Davidson BAR 1:20.307 18
Takuma Sato BAR 1:20.539 26
Nelson Piquet Jr. BAR 1:20.855 41
Jacques Villeneuve Sauber 1:21.062 59

All cars 05 spec except Badoer (F2004) and Piquet (BAR006)

Times as reported by the Jerez circuit ... more

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:12 am

Sauber fast but JV slow

Wonder what's going on

Sauber and Toyota fastest! The others weren't going for times I suspect.

They'll turn up the heat tomorrow!