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[LRW]

I know very little about the technicalities of F1, but Gary Anderson knows even less. The guy is a like my old grandad. He just talks and talks, but very little has any real meaning.

[Hammer278]

I know very little about the technicalities of F1, but Gary Anderson knows even less. The guy is a like my old grandad. He just talks and talks, but very little has any real meaning.

Gary predicted McLaren to be winning from Melbourne in 2013 and for Mercedes to be a midfielder.

Now that Button got the fastest time in day 2, he might say the silver livery is a technical advantage which might be McLarens 2nd secret weapon.

[NHcheese]

If it is the secret weapon, I tell you they would have tested it out at the last practice then at melbourne they should have done more testing. The fact that it has come out so early shows how it may not be that big of an advantage.

[1Lemon]

If it is the secret weapon, I tell you they would have tested it out at the last practice then at melbourne they should have done more testing. The fact that it has come out so early shows how it may not be that big of an advantage.

The rear assembly was different on the launch photos than the one at Jerez.

[Jabberwocky]

I thought suspension shrouds had to be aerodynamically neutral.

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[CookinFlat6]

I know very little about the technicalities of F1, but Gary Anderson knows even less. The guy is a like my old grandad. He just talks and talks, but very little has any real meaning.

He didnt know much as a team engineer, he didnt know much as a TV engineering expert, he doesnt know much now as a magazine engineering writer, When he ends up in a toy shop selling scale model F1 cars, he might become convincing

[Jabberwocky]

His time with Jordan and Stewart where not that bad, considering the finances of the teams

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[CookinFlat6]

And in those days, it was still a lot of traditional machanical engineering.

He is hopelessly amateurish about the new dark arts - aero and all the ERS and stuff. And he just jumps in with shallow appraisals everytime - e.g. he could tell by looking at a cars wing how much DF it had etc

I wonder why he left the BBC and didnt get 'snapped up' by Sky who splash the money around

[Jabberwocky]

Did not realise he had left the bbc

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[CookinFlat6]

They havent made a song and dance about it, but I reckon they quietly took him out at dawn

[Jabberwocky]

Maybe the BBC are courting Ross Brawn to replace him

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[Hammer278]

The McLarens are going pretty strong. Imagine this WDC being contested by Mercedes VS McLaren......

Kevin might have a chance to beat Hamilton's rookie year yet.

[CookinFlat6]

@McLarenF1: "Jenson's currently fastest this morning, he's set a 1m25.030s - but don't read anything into these times. #earlydays"

This is the first test. Its good McLaren have a good chassis. As they have arguably the best engine.

There are a few clues though to this situation;
Button publically calling for the Merc teams to share their data
And saying the teams have been testing different engine modes and the engineers are running a collective programme
So that could mean that HPE have got each team testing different modes or profiles, and is ofcourse passing all that data on to Brackly. And not necessarily to the rest.
Also Buttons runs are all very short compared to Nico and Lewis.
I would say McLaren are actually doing some proxy testing for Brackley and Nico and Lewis are on heavy 'leaner' engine modes

A bit worried about Force India, they will be competing with McLaren

[1Lemon]

@McLarenF1: "Jenson's currently fastest this morning, he's set a 1m25.030s - but don't read anything into these times. #earlydays"

This is the first test. Its good McLaren have a good chassis. As they have arguably the best engine.

There are a few clues though to this situation;
Button publically calling for the Merc teams to share their data
And saying the teams have been testing different engine modes and the engineers are running a collective programme
So that could mean that HPE have got each team testing different modes or profiles, and is ofcourse passing all that data on to Brackly. And not necessarily to the rest.
Also Buttons runs are all very short compared to Nico and Lewis.
I would say McLaren are actually doing some proxy testing for Brackley and Nico and Lewis are on heavy 'leaner' engine modes

A bit worried about Force India, they will be competing with McLaren

If they are all doing shared testing then the teams wouldn't settle for just a one way flow of info, I reckon all the engine data would go into a big pot and everyone will take from it

[Hammer278]

If they are all doing shared testing then the teams wouldn't settle for just a one way flow of info, I reckon all the engine data would go into a big pot and everyone will take from it

They're not making a recipe here man. 2 way information would mean they get telemetry data or at least close to it on how rival cars are reacting through/into/out of corners etc....no one's agreeing to that.

The customers tell Mercedes their problems and Mercedes solves them. No need to let everyone know what everyone else is going through. The advantage for the works team is that their HQ is receiving all the info, and HQ files what they want to file.