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[Hammer278]

Does anyone know what was Vettel's longest stint today?

Anyone?

[What's Burning?]

Lap totals to date by engine manufacturer;
Mercedes - 1416
Ferrari - 761
Renault - 445

[spankyham]

Does anyone know what was Vettel's longest stint today?

Anyone?

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[sagi58]

F1 Bahrain Test update with Edd Straw

Published on Feb 20, 2014

Autosport's F1 Editor, Edd Straw, joins us on-line from Bahrain with a report from
Day 2 of F1 testing. Kevin Magnussen was quickest today for McLaren-Mercedes,
with Nico Hulkenberg second for Force India-Mercedes, Fernando Alonso third for
Ferrari and Nico Rosberg fourth for Mercedes. World Champion, Sebastian Vettel,
had his most consistent day yet in the Red Bull-Renault, completing 59 laps, but
has still to put in a representative lap time

[sagi58]

Paddy Lowe explains F1 braking-by-wire and engine names - The Racer's Edge 42 Part 2

Published on Feb 5, 2014

Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Executive Director (Technical), Patrick "Paddy" Lowe,
explains why he thinks we should use the "hybrid" word in F1 (instead of KERS or ERS)
and talks about the new electronic rear braking systems used on the 2014 F1 cars.

[spankyham]

Nice footage of Lewis here. The team that manages to get the power to the bitumen is the team to watch IMO. To win this year will require reliability coupled with the best aero package.

[Hammer278]

Today should be more fun....Lewis already just 0.9s slower than the time Kevin set yesterday. Merc chasing performance today.

Btw:
Andrew Benson
"It's well known that Renault are some way behind their rivals on performance at the moment - its problems have, after all, been the story of the pre-season so far. But most teams and drivers have publicly danced around the subject a little, restricting themselves to remarks such as 'there is a lot of work to do' (S. Vettel). But on Thursday Caterham's Kamui Kobayashi came right out and said it. 'We meet some other cars and clearly we can see the Mercedes cars are much quicker in the straights, 20-30km/h more and it would mean different braking points, everything, if we had proper power.' Stating the obvious it might be, but full marks to Kobayashi for telling it like it is."

[Hammer278]

BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer Andrew Benson
"On the face of it, these are some impressive times from Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes. His fastest so far of one minute 34.813 seconds just pips Kevin Magnussen's fastest time on Thursday in the McLaren. Yet Magnussen was on super-soft tyres - two grades softer than Hamilton's mediums (and therefore at least a second, if not a lot more, faster). Of course, there are the usual provisos that we don't know fuel loads etc."

We're finally seeing some genuine speed in testing!

[racechick]

Ooooooh! Lewis allowed to go faster today .Looking forward to this. Kobi comment kind of confirms the power in that Merc engine. yummy yummy.

[cheekybru]

1 Hamilton Mercedes 1m34.263s
2 Gutierrez Sauber 1m37.180s +2.917
3 Button McLaren 1m37.258s +2.995
4 Maldonado Lotus 1m39.642s +5.379
5 Perez Force India 1m40.339s +6.076
6 Ricciardo Red Bull 1m40.781s +6.518
7 Kvyat Toro Rosso 1m40.801s +6.538
8 Raikkonen Ferrari 1m41.336s +7.073
9 Ericsson Caterham 1m43.602s +9.339
10 Chilton Marussia 1m46.672s +12.409


Nice set of times for me to go to work with

[sagi58]

Does anyone have a link?
Thanks in advance!

[racechick]

This is heartening news from Magnesun regarding the handling of the new cars and the fact that drivers input is more important? YES!!

. 'I am enjoying it so much,' he said. 'I think it's awesome and it really is a drivers' car, more than the old one.'

"Magnussen added that the rule changes had actually made the drivers' input more important: 'With the blown diffusers (of the last three years), it became a little bit easy and on new tyres it was very much relying on the car and set-up and balance, but this year is more of a drivers' car and I think that's great.'"

[racechick]

OMYGOD. I've just looked at Lewis' time!! He's like 3 seconds ahead,

[spankyham]

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/698" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[sagi58]

Thanks, spanky!!