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[Hammer278]

[1Lemon]

I love giving F1 teams Twitter! Lotus still has the funniest tweets though.

[Jabberwocky]

Lol and an index finger

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[What's Burning?]

Well Mercedes, back to the drawing board.

[Hammer278]

Not close to as bad as Spain, but still bad.

BTW, I see now why people say Rosberg goes missing in races....I mean where was he?? From what little I saw of him, he made a move on 2 cars at the same time around the end of the race which was quite nice...but come on, 11th to 9th with a free tyre change, he needs to get feistier.

[What's Burning?]

Not close to as bad as Spain, but still bad.

BTW, I see now why people say Rosberg goes missing in races....I mean where was he?? From what little I saw of him, he made a move on 2 cars at the same time around the end of the race which was quite nice...but come on, 11th to 9th with a free tyre change, he needs to get feistier.

He did gain two spots while Lewis lost four so he's clearly better.

[darwin dali]

Not close to as bad as Spain, but still bad.

BTW, I see now why people say Rosberg goes missing in races....I mean where was he?? From what little I saw of him, he made a move on 2 cars at the same time around the end of the race which was quite nice...but come on, 11th to 9th with a free tyre change, he needs to get feistier.

He did gain two spots while Lewis lost four so he's clearly better.

[Hammer278]

Mercedes hopes to win F1 young driver test reprieve from FIA


Mercedes F1 2013 - Mercedes has enquired with the FIA about getting a day of running at the upcoming young driver test to try out Pirelli's new tyres.

The team was initially happy to accept that it would not run at Silverstone next week when race drivers join the test, as punishment for its secret Pirelli test earlier this year.

But AUTOSPORT has learned that Mercedes is awaiting a ruling from the FIA on whether or not there are grounds for it to get some running, so it can gather some data about the new tyres ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.

One of its arguments is that with Pirelli's new 2012 construction tyres being introduced on safety grounds, it would not be wise for Mercedes to head in to a race weekend without having completed a single lap on them.

Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff told AUTOSPORT that the matter was still 'a work in progress' and that safety was an issue.

"When it is about safety it would be good if all teams are clear whether they [the tyres] work on their cars," he said. "But it is up to the FIA to decide.

"Safety is the priority for the FIA and I am sure they would safeguard that it is the same for everybody."

Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn has admitted, however, that Mercedes' only real chance of getting some running would be if the test ran into a fourth day - something that is unlikely to happen.

"If it was extended to a fourth day then we would have an argument that the fourth day - an extra day- should be made available to us as our penalty was three days," Brawn said.

"I haven't heard the latest on what [other teams] are doing with drivers as it seems to vary.

"We certainly won't be able to attend the three days and it doesn't look like it is going to be extended."

The FIA is expected to clarify its position on the young driver test later this week.

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Been some time coming, but finally they've voiced out. Good timing too, with the FIA still unsure of what the so called "YDT" comprises of exactly.

[What's Burning?]

Mercedes' legal counsel reads our forum.

[myownalias]

Mercedes made their own punishment and it was accepted; regardless of situation, that punishment has to stand or else the whole tribunal was a joke, some team principles already think that the tribunal and punishment was a joke already, if Mercedes are allowed to test at any point at Silverstone, that will set a dangerous precedent for future breaches of the rules!

[CookinFlat6]

Mercedes' legal counsel reads our forum.

Hopefully he is not the religious fanatic that was mentioned earlier

[spankyham]

On a technicality, I don't believe the FiA can overturn the Tribunal's decision. The Tribunal being an independent body that all parties, even the FiA submit to.

The only way this could work would be for the FiA to declare one of the days as an "additional" testing day, not part of the YDT. Might be interesting to see if the the other teams would then agree to that additional day

[Hammer278]

Never thought about the seat fitting much but this vid makes a whole lot of sense of how drivers can find speed with a good seat!

[NHcheese]

SO, switch the tyres back the other way and Mercedes are off the race pace... AGAIN! GO MCLAREN!

[CookinFlat6]

Well the next batch for Hungary are said to be symmetric as opposed to asymmetric. So hopefully it wont be so bad next time. Also with the symmetric hopefully the teams will be allowed to swap them around again without the safety concerns