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[siztenboots]

full driving line-up for the final day of Jerez testing: Mercedes - Lewis Hamilton Red Bull - Daniel Kvyat Williams - Felipe Massa Ferrari - Kimi Raikkonen McLaren - Jenson Button Toro Rosso - Max Verstappen Lotus - Romain Grosjean Sauber - Marcus Ericsson To be honest , I have not missed the tail end teams.

[Andy_VX]

Ok, I know the rule is timings mean nothing during testing but surely there has to be something In the time sheets. Is the Ferrari engine that much better this year!? I do hope so!

Edited by Andy_VX, 04 February 2015 - 11:11 AM.

[siztenboots]

day 4 timings @11.15 1 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m23.200s 2 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso 1m24.321s +1.121 3 Felipe Massa Williams 1m25.508s +2.308 4 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1m25.637s +2.437 5 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m26.111s +2.911 6 Marcus Ericsson Sauber 1m26.184s +2.984 7 Jenson Button McLaren 1m30.706s +7.506 8 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull 1m37.195s +13.995

[Andy_VX]

full driving line-up for the final day of Jerez testing: Mercedes - Lewis Hamilton Red Bull - Daniel Kvyat Williams - Felipe Massa Ferrari - Kimi Raikkonen McLaren - Jenson Button Toro Rosso - Max Verstappen Lotus - Romain Grosjean Sauber - Marcus Ericsson To be honest , I have not missed the tail end teams.

Funny you should say that, Manor F1 are saying they'll race this year!! That's a lot of work to do!

[siztenboots]

Engine suppliers, customers (works team listed first) Honda (1): McLaren Renault (2): Red Bull , Toro Rosso Ferrari (3): Ferrari , Sauber , Manor Mercedes (4): Mercedes , Williams , Lotus , Force India

[siztenboots]

15:30 final day at Jerez ( tyre data where known ) 1 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m20.841s / soft 2 Marcus Ericsson Sauber 1m22.019s +1.178 / soft 3 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m22.172s +1.331 / medium 4 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso 1m22.553s +1.712 / soft 5 Felipe Massa Williams 1m23.116s +2.275 / medium 6 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1m23.802s +2.961 7 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull 1m23.975s +3.134 8 Jenson Button McLaren 1m27.660s +6.819 / hard * hard = special winter compound for lower operating temp (orange sidewall paint) Hamilton - 101 Verstappen - 88 Raikkonen - 79 Ericsson - 76 Massa - 63 Kvyat - 56 Grosjean - 53 Button - 35

[CocoPops]

Vettel for WDC?

[G-Bob]

So with the talk of Manor racing returning and using their 2014 car, do they still get the most up to date ferrari engine to go in it?

Seems like the new engine is a good-un.

[siztenboots]

So back again , February 19-22: Barcelona, Spain.

[siztenboots]

So with the talk of Manor racing returning and using their 2014 car, do they still get the most up to date ferrari engine to go in it? Seems like the new engine is a good-un.

I think Ferrari need every opportunity to put track/race time on as many of their engines as they can.

[slindborg]

Ferrari could probably bankroll Manor as a test mule team....

[Andy_VX]

I read that Mercedes' new engine is mounted differently this year. If the Ferrari unit is the same the 2014 Marussia chassis would have to use the 2014 Ferrari engine I guess... 

[Andy_VX]

Did anyone watch Ted's notebook tonight? The Mclarens rear end is rather nice, it's all very tightly packaged.... Excuse all the puns lol! 

[fezzasus]

I read that Mercedes' new engine is mounted differently this year. If the Ferrari unit is the same the 2014 Marussia chassis would have to use the 2014 Ferrari engine I guess... 

 

Not the end of the world. The Brawn car was a last minute cut and shut engine change and that worked fine. Additionally the real reason Lotus were late to testing is they were waiting for money to pay to machine engine mounts, only received it last week. I would expect a similar turn around time for Marussia/Manor if they commit to get back on the grid

[fezzasus]

Ferrari could probably bankroll Manor as a test mule team....

 

Same agreement as Sauber. Free engines (or heavily discounted) but they get run 50 bhp less, Ferrari get the data from developments to the car as well as the engine, and have driver selection input.

[siztenboots]

Barcelona Testing day 1 starts today   sofar , lunch finished, back out 1 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m27.141s 2 Felipe Nasr Sauber 1m27.307s +0.166 3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 1m27.363s +0.222 4 Pastor Maldonado Lotus 1m27.510s +0.369 5 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso 1m27.951s +0.810 6 Jenson Button McLaren 1m28.182s +1.041 7 Pascal Wehrlein Force India 1m28.329s +1.188 8 Pascal Wehrlein Mercedes 1m29.286s +2.145 9 Susie Wolff Williams 1m29.400s +2.259 10 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m30.429s +3.288 Laps Wolff 77 Nasr 56 Maldonado 48 Verstappen 35 Wehrlein (Force India) 32 Raikkonen 29 Button 21 Ricciardo 18 Hamilton 11 Wehrlein (Mercedes) 6

[siztenboots]

no further driving from Lewis , too unwell

[siztenboots]

Pascal Wehrlein will swap from FI car over to works merc replacing ill Lewis this afternoon

[siztenboots]

no more running for Button, MGU-K seal failure on Honda

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Where do you get your updates steve