Pre-Season Testing - 2006

BlinkyBill · Post by **BlinkyBill** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:06 am

Ed wrote:Testing commenced at Barcelona today (Tuesday). 5 teams are present: McLaren, Williams, Red Bull, MF1 Racing and the new Super Aguri team.

Very few laps have been run so far with only Montoya, Raikkonen and Webber setting reasonably competitive lap times.

Takuma Sato in the Super Aguri has stopped after just 3 laps.

Further updates to follow

Makes sense. Sato was out on track . . . and no-one else!!

BlinkyBill · Post by **BlinkyBill** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:10 am

Snowy wrote:
sgd wrote: Hi Snowy and everybody!!!
i've found something really cool!!:
Barcelona Test Live!!:
http://aplicacions.circuitcat.com/temps ... p?Idioma=2

Enjoy!
You bloody angel

To quote Bart Simpson:
Thats goooood squishy

BlinkyBill · Post by **BlinkyBill** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:26 am

Ed wrote:Mark Webber in the Williams FW28 set the fastest time of the day on Tuesday in Barcelona ahead of Kimi Raikkonen and Robert Doornbos.

Webber's best time was a 1:17.699. Kimi Raikkonen and Tiago Montiero covered the most number of lap with 59.

5 teams were present with 7 drivers setting lap times.

The day started cold but sunny but became wet in the afternoon.

There were several red flags during the session. The 2 Williams, Monteiro and Sato all had stops while Sato also spun in the wet in the afternoon.
Montoya had a transmission problem which kept him in the garage for the afternoon.

Testing continues tomorrow with Renault, Honda and Toyota joining the test.

Lap by lap times (in pdf)

Full report and times shortly

Ed can we find out what problems the Williams were having?
Hoping it was overheating from being stuck behind sato . . . but thats wishful thinking.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:05 am

BlinkyBill wrote:
Snowy wrote:
sgd wrote: Hi Snowy and everybody!!!
i've found something really cool!!:
Barcelona Test Live!!:
http://aplicacions.circuitcat.com/temps ... p?Idioma=2

Enjoy!
You bloody angel
To quote Bart Simpson:
Thats goooood squishy

Ed does it all for us anyway

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:11 am

On the last day of testing in Bahrain, Schuey reverted to the 2004V10. He was not able to match the times set by Massa

Ed · Post by Ed » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:39 am

BlinkyBill wrote: Ed can we find out what problems the Williams were having?
Hoping it was overheating from being stuck behind sato . . . but thats wishful thinking.

Nothing coming out of the Williams camp at this stage

Redhead · Post by **Redhead** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:04 am

Julian Mayo wrote:On the last day of testing in Bahrain, Schuey reverted to the 2004V10. He was not able to match the times set by Massa

By the same

JPM ought to pick up his bat and ball and go home, yesterday both Montiero and Doornbros topped him (on the timesheets)

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:10 am

Redhead wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:On the last day of testing in Bahrain, Schuey reverted to the 2004V10. He was not able to match the times set by Massa
By the same JPM ought to pick up his bat and ball and go home, yesterday both Montiero and Doornbros topped him (on the timesheets)

Given that the McLaren went boom after 22 laps, He was probably running on 7 cylinders from the 1st lap. What is Denis doing

Ed · Post by Ed » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:24 am

Julian Mayo wrote: Given that the McLaren went boom after 22 laps, He was probably running on 7 cylinders from the 1st lap. What is Denis doing

Moved the posts to this thread

The McLaren of Montoya had a transmission problem so it wasn't an engine this time

Ed · Post by Ed » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:32 am

Ferrari concluded testing at Bahrain. Michael drove both the 248 F1 and the F2004. He set the fastest time for a 2006 spec car so far with a 1:30.723 while Massa set the fastest time for any car this year with a 1:29.958.

Ferrari's next test will be at Mugello from the 27th of February.

5 teams were at Barcelona with 3 more teams joining in on Wednesday. Mark Webber was fastest just ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. Running was limited due to the weather.

Super Aguri F1 made their official track debut with Sato driving. They struggled with problems on their first day.

Toro Rosso were testing at Imola with Neel Jani. Weather conditions were wet. The BMW Sauber team joins them tomorrow.

Full testing report now available here

Lap by Lap times (in pdf) from Barcelona only

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:49 pm

Julian Mayo wrote:On the last day of testing in Bahrain, Schuey reverted to the 2004V10. He was not able to match the times set by Massa

But it is the new car they will race in Julian. That is what I mean by the massive advantage Michael has.

In the old car Massa is faster but with only 4 days in the new car he'll have a difficult task.

It is all part of the brainwashing exercise at Ferrari. I just hope Massa The Rebel has the right antidote

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:00 pm

ahhhhh, perchance to dream. Massa WILL do as he is told

Ferrari must be asking Max if it is too late to nominate the V10, and Schuey will be ordering them not to, because he can blame his forthcoming season on the V8. (and Massa is faster in the 10)

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:09 pm

Julian Mayo wrote:Massa WILL do as he is told

So far he is

Michael breaks the new car so they tell Massa to stop testing and let Michael test the old car. That must be demoralising

But I am telling you, he will be The Rebel

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:17 pm

JayVee wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:Massa WILL do as he is told
So far he is

Michael breaks the new car so they tell Massa to stop testing and let Michael test the old car. That must be demoralising

But I am telling you, he will be The Rebel

Sadly, if he did he would be off contract before his helmet was off, and no other team would touch him

rah · Post by **rah** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:08 pm

JayVee wrote: But I am telling you, he will be The Rebel

In that case, he will also be unemployed.