Test 1 @ Jerez 7th - 10th February 2012

[Hampus Andersson]

There is nothing to take from this test. Or are we seriously thinking RBR, Ferrari, Mclaren are one second off-pace..

Don´t focus on the laptimes, they mean nothing.

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

the webpage has been blocked by my anti virus telling me this site has a virus and suspicous files on it.i use "ESET Nod32"

No alerts on McAfee websafe.. Probably a false positive but there were a lot of .RU scripts.. Using NoScript is always good choice, i never visit a new site without it..

 

[James Chant]

Unofficial Tuesday test times from Jerez:
1. Kimi Raikkonen, Lotus, 1:19.670, 73 Laps
2. Paul di Resta, Force India, 1:19.772, 101 Laps
3. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes*, 1:20.219, 56 Laps
4. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 1:20.496, 53 Laps
5. Daniel Ricciardo, Toro Rosso, 1:20.694, 57 Laps
6. Michael Schumacher, Mercedes*, 1:20.794, 41 Laps
7. Kamui Kobayashi, Sauber, 1:21.353, 106 Laps
8. Jenson Button, McLaren, 1:21.530, 60 Laps
9. Felipe Massa, Ferrari, 1:22.815, 69 Laps
10. Heikki Kovalainen, Caterham, 1:23.178, 28 Laps
11. Pastor Maldonado, Williams, 1:23.371, 25 Laps
12. Pedro de la Rosa, HRT*, 1:23.676, 44 Laps
* 2011 car

 

[Ivo Simons]

 

[Scott Webber]

here it is

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

I can do a short translation for this one, i'll bet none of you understood anything

Kimi was pleased and said that apart for few small issues they managed to complete the planned program almost all the way thru. It certainly wasn't the worst first day but the result is not important at all.

Salo walked along different parts of the track during the day and said that Kimi was driving at the limits all the time in every corner that he saw. Other teams were doing all kinds of checks and referred to them doing "sunday driving", which almost certainly was the case. He also said that yesterday Lotus did those 22 laps and they could see from there that the car worked and they could skip those early checks that most teams were still doing today.

Keke saw Kimi in hotel yesterday and said that he was as happy as we are for his comeback and seemed to be relaxed.

Kovalainen explained the issue with the starter shaft. It was the fitting in the end of the shaft where the starter usually links to. It started to slip and finally the starter motor cleaned the fitting completely flat. He said that it ain't that big a deal to fix but it delayed the rest of the program until tomorrow. He didn't said anything about how the car felt as there really wasn't good opportunity to evalued it yet.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

My mom has a friend that is a BOSS at talking fake finnish
He made two finns doubt one time and they first wondered if he was from some remote part of Finland haha
It sounds exactly like finnish but really is mumbo jumbo.

Wish my mom taught me Finnish, think it would have done good to know another language.

 

[Eric Parker]

And Autosport's coverage of day two is live now.
http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/436

 

[Ivo Simons]

Good to see atleast one other car having a normal nose.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Good to see atleast one other car having a normal nose.

But apparently their 2012 car might also be a platypus.

 

[David Carter]

Its nice to hear that the toilet problems the F1 cars had last year are FINALLY over

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Just to give an idea of how much teams are from the actual potential of the car,​

Barrichello did a 1.19.8 last year as the fastest time at Jerez.​

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2nd was Kamui +0.769, 3rd was Alonso +1.242.​

These were the absolute fastest times in Jerez so it should give an idea of how little the testing means ​

 

[cruyff]

I really hope Raikkonen doen't have the same results as Rubens...
Go Kimi!

 

[Ho3n3r]

Also Shcumacher's time is nothing less than what you'd expect, after a year's worth of development time on that car. He should actually get up to 1.17's.

Also, last year it was raining in Jerez most of the testing, so yes, these times mean squat.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Its just a test. The teams don't want to give anything away at this stage so nobody is using their full potential. Still very nice that the season has now finally started Bring on 2012 F1

 

[Victor Ivanov]

Ivo McLaren has normal nose.

 

[Ivo Simons]

I know thats why i said atleast one other car.

 

[Ivan Mills]

So is the Merc running EBD or is it 2012specs and 2011 chassi/nose etc?...a bit unclear to me atm

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Standard 2011 car with EBD

 

[Scott Webber]

Day 2, Slideshow

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