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Formula 1 2017 Pre-Season |OT| The Ferrari is good this year

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KdotIX

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Zaru said:
Lewis Hamilton might want to disagree with you.
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I would love for him to jump in the car this afternoon - do an installation lap and blow the engine. Something about that would just seem hysterical to me. Then queue all the conspiracies hah
 
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Dutch Gronk

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KdotIX said:
I would love for him to jump in the car this afternoon - do an installation lap and blow the engine. Something about that would just seem hysterical to me. Then queue all the conspiracies hah
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Maybe Lewis can come join Ferrari. We'll treat him well and he'll #Bless us.
 
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DBT85

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FI the first to get within 1 sec of Merc and Ferrari

As Jesus posts a 1:22.791 on Mediums

Fastest lap on day 1 last year was 1m24.939 (Vettel)

Already 2 seconds faster and we have hours to go today.
 
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Theorry

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" A snapshot of how the 2017 Pirelli tyre compounds hold up? Perez did two 'push' laps straight away that were very close in time, with the second lap set to be an improvement until it fell away slightly in the final sector. He then backed off for a lap, pushed again on his 4th of this run, and improved to a 1m23.835s. Track temperature is 28.3 degrees, so cooler than we'll see at a lot of places, but hopefully that's a sign that the tyres will hold up better this season."
 
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Zeknurn

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12:15 Apparently the Red Bull sensor issue requires the gearbox to be taken off to fix - hence the long delay getting the RB13 running again.
Ben Anderson
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At least they're keeping McLaren company.
 
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TCRS

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Damn these cars look so good this season.

Alo are the engines louder? Or is it because there's no commentary.
Sadly the Honda doesn't sound like a Balrog anymore :/
 
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Zeknurn

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TCRS said:
Damn these cars look so good this season.

Alo are the engines louder? Or is it because there's no commentary.
Sadly the Honda doesn't sound like a Balrog anymore :/
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They sound louder because people recording with their phones has better audio capture than FOM.
 
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DBT85

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Bottas about to hit a race distance. Maybe having both drivers in the car each day is an idea to share the Gs.
 
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Zeknurn

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12:37 A bit of a lock up for the Merc under braking for Turn 1 - Bottas is pushing hard it seems. The impression of corner speed is not overwhelming, the car is maybe running fat with fuel, but you can tell it is smothered in grip - early back on the throttle and no trouble to deal with all the way up the hill through Turns 2 and into 3. The Force India is a bit more lairy, giving Perez a touch of oversteer to deal with through 2, though the next lap - with a bit more tyre temperature perhaps - it's all under control again.
Ben Anderson
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TCRS

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man listening to these sounds is so therapeutic

Xando said:
We are in the eternal cycle of Ferrari pre season hype until the meltdowns start in Australia.
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In Spain:

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Zaru

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Zeknurn said:
They sound louder because people recording with their phones has better audio capture than FOM.
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"Better" isn't the right word. It's like recording a concert with a phone, it'll sound louder and wilder, but worse if it's music. That doesn't apply to F1 engines which are SUPPOSED to sound earth-shattering.
 
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Zeknurn

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Zaru said:
"Better" isn't the right word. It's like recording a concert with a phone, it'll sound louder and wilder, but worse if it's music. That doesn't apply to F1 engines which are SUPPOSED to sound earth-shattering.
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I consider it better because it's closer to real life than what FOM is putting out on the official feed.

This Periscope from the pit complex is staying up longer than the other one. Highly recommended
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OyKAolRArgJb?q=f1

Looking at Bottas's previous run on softs, which included 16 timed laps, it doesn't look like tyre degradation is particularly under control. Taking his first laptime, a 1m23.4s, then factoring in fuel-load reduction on each subsequent lap, you can work out what the tyre degradation is. After 16 flying laps, he's a total 17.45s slower than he would be with the tyre degradation removed. So that's just under 1.1s per lap lost on average. Some of that could be in setup or the way he's driving, but that doesn't come close to low-degradation to my mind. Gary Anderson
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Zeknurn

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Frankfurter said:
What was the fastest time set last year in testing?
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Ultrasoft: Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari SF16-H - 1:22.765
Supersoft: Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari SF16-H - 1:22.852
Soft: Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari SF16-H - 1:23.009
Medium: Nico Rosberg, Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid - 1:24.126
Hard: Valtteri Bottas, Williams-Mercedes FW38 - 1:25.402

We haven't seen nothing yet.
 
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DBT85

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Frankfurter said:
What was the fastest time set last year in testing?
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First day last year
1 Vettel Ferrari 1m24.939s
2 Hamilton Mercedes 1m25.409s
3 Ricciardo Red Bull 1m26.044s
4 Bottas Williams 1m26.091s
5 Celis Force India 1m26.298s
6 Button McLaren 1m26.735s
7 Sainz Toro Rosso 1m27.180s
8 Ericsson Sauber 1m27.555s
9 Wehrlein Manor 1m28.292s
10 Grosjean Haas 1m28.399s
11 Palmer Renault 1m29.356s

Best day at Barca testing last year
1m22.765s

Best time so far after 4 hours of testing
1:22.791
 
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NHale

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bobnowhere said:
1.22m from Vettel on mediums!

Ferrari got early pace maybe, possibly, probably?
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Ferrari always has a great pace in winter testing. The last time they didn't was in 2012 where LdM had to travel to Jerez in a private plan after people started calling him in the morning of day 1 to say the car was a complete trainwreck and that all data collected during the morning contradicted what the data collected from the windtunnel. If only they broadcasted the emergency meeting between LdM, Domenicali and Tombazis.

Lemonte said:
We don't know how slow Ferrari truly is until Saturday afternoon in Melbourne. ;)
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Fixed it for you ;)
 
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Ark

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Ferrari looking better than I expected on day one. Hopefully Honda have a much better afternoon than this morning, it's long past-time for Honda to be grabbing podiums.
 
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