2014 Formula 1 Thread

[pHILSANITY07]

I don't know if anyone has read this as of late. NASCAR co owner Gene Haas who is one of the owners of Stewart Haas Racing has expressed interest in entering a F1 team.

[Ruffdaddy]

I don't know if anyone has read this as of late. NASCAR co owner Gene Haas who is one of the owners of Stewart Haas Racing has expressed interest in entering a F1 team.

While being all but laughed at for not having
the money. If I were Haas I'd hope for F1 to lose ground to Indy and head that way.

[pHILSANITY07]

I think Haas said he wanted to go to Formula 1 so that way his companies could be seen global.

[Ruffdaddy]

Hell yes! Nico hulkenberg is getting after it!

[momo]

red bull (and torro rosso) still having issues today.

caterham runs lotus engine yet managed to put down a fair quantity of laps.


Day 1 Bahrain results:

Laps completed
1. Adrian Sutil (Sauber) 82
2. Kevin Magnussen (McLaren) 81
3. Nico Hulkenberg (Force India) 78
4. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 74
5. Robin Frijns (Caterham) 68
6. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) 64
7. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) 14
8. Romain Grosjean (Lotus) 8
9. Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso) 5; Felipe Massa (Williams) 5
10. Jules Bianchi (Marussia) 3

Final lap times
1. Nico Hulkenberg (Force India) 1:36.880
2. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) 1:37.879
3. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 1:37.908
4. Kevin Magnussen (McLaren) 1:38.295
5. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) 1:40.224
6. Adrian Sutil (Sauber) 1:40.443
7. Robin Frijns (Caterham) 1:42.534
8. Daniil Kvyat (Russia) 1:44.346
9. Romain Grosjean (Lotus) 1:44.832
10. Felipe Massa (Williams) no time
11. Jules Bianchi (Marussia) no time

[Bputacoma]

^ It's probably because Caterham car is slow. Putting around the track improves reliability!

[momo]

Day 2 of Bahrain testing in the books. red bull and toro rosso each turning 58 laps today.


Laps completed
1. Valtteri Bottas (Williams) 115 laps
2. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) 96
3. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) 84
4. Kamui Kobayashi (Caterham) 65
5. Nico Hulkenberg (Force India) 59
6. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) 58; Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso) 58
7. Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber) 55
8. Kevin Magnussen (McLaren) 45
9. Romain Grosjean (Lotus) 18
10. Max Chilton (Marussia) 17

Final lap times
1. Kevin Magnussen (McLaren) 1:34.910
2. Nico Hulkenberg (Force India) 1:36.445
3. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) 1:36.516
4. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) 1:36.965
5. Valtteri Bottas (Williams) 1:37.328
6. Kamui Kobayashi (Caterham) 1:39.855
7. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) 1:40.340
8. Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso) 1:40.609
9. Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber) 1:40.717
10. Romain Grosjean (Lotus) 1:41.670
11. Max Chilton (Marussia) 1:42.511

[momo]

also in f1 news, bernie won one of his many legal cases. if i read it right, the court ruled he did pay a bribe but it didn't result in a financial loss for the suing party but since it was civil...

[Bputacoma]

Soo much for Catherham being slowest.....Good job kobayashi!

[Mach1]

I can't believe the delta in laptimes between the teams

[momo]

yea, the delta is massive but they are all running pretty different programs at this point still. fuel loads and tire compound differences being the biggest difference. (Magnussen's fast time was on the softest compound)

mclaren has been the most revealing, running long stints, short stints, both compounds.

mercedes is only focused on turning laps. full weight, full heat reliability testing it seems.

ferrari is lurking, not showing their hand. all of their runs seem to have been on the harder compounds during longer stints. They spent a good chunk of yesterday doing aero tests with pitot tubes.


*just from info i've gathered by reading by reading the daily live updates of the testing.

[Kart21]

It looks like a good year, as " the times are a'changin "

Or I hope so,.....

[momo]

2014 testing feels more exciting than the 2nd part of the 2013 season.

day 3 of testing in bahrain

Laps completed
1) Jenson Button (McLaren) 103
2) Marcus Ericsson (Caterham) 98
3) Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber) 96
4) Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 67
5) Felipe Massa (Williams) 60
6) Sergio Perez (Force India) 57
7) Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso) 57
8) Valtteri Bottas (Williams) 55
9) Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) 44
10) Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull) 28
11) Pastor Maldonado (Lotus) 26
12) Max Chilton (Marussia) 4

Final lap times
1) Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 1:34.263
2) Jenson Button (McLaren) 1:34.976
3) Felipe Massa (Williams) 1:37.066
4) Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber) 1:37.180
5) Sergio Perez (Force India) 1:37.367
6) Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) 1:37.476
7) Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso) 1:38.974
8) Pastor Maldonado (Lotus) 1:39.642
9) Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull) 1:40.781
10) Marcus Ericsson (Caterham) 1:42.130
11) Max Chilton (Marussia) 1:46.672
12) Valtteri Bottas (Williams) no time


red bull started late then had a new mechanical issue which ended their day early.
mclaren ran issue free, good times, reliability. 103 laps.
mercedes had a hydraulic issue in the afternoon which lost some time but hamilton was fast this morning.
ferrari was limited with telemetry issues.
marussia very limited track time the last 3 days. not looking so good there.

[Ruffdaddy]

I was reading that the renaults were on a limited performance package meaning they aren't using over 100 available HP. That will pick up a few seconds for RBR, lotus and maybe even caterham.

Testing has only served to confuse the running order much more. Looks like RBR is definitely hiding something.

[momo]

Day 4 of testing in bahrain

Laps completed
1. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) 89
2. Felipe Nasr (Williams) 87
3. Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) 82
4. Jenson Button (McLaren) 66
5. Pastor Maldonado (Lotus) 59
6. Sergio Perez (Force India) 19; Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso) 19
7. Kamui Kobayashi (Caterham) 17
8. Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull) 15
9. Marcus Ericsson (Caterham) 4
10. Adrian Sutil (Sauber) 7
11. Jules Bianchi (Marussia) 5


Final lap times
1. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) 1:33.283
2. Jenson Button (McLaren) 1:34.957
3. Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) 1:36.718
4. Felipe Nasr (Williams) 1:37.569
5. Pastor Maldonado (Lotus) 1:38.707
6. Sergio Perez (Force India) 1:39.258
7. Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull) 1:39.837
8. Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso) 1:40.472
9. Kamui Kobayashi (Caterham) 1:43.027
10. Marcus Ericsson (Caterham) 1:45.094
11. Adrian Sutil (Sauber) no time
12. Jules Bianchi (Marussia) no time