Barcelona Testing

Super Tourer · 6 Apr 2005, 17:51 (Ref:1271900)

http://www.f1racing.net/en/testresults.php?testID=236

1 P. de la Rosa McLaren 01:14.391 88 Laps
2 R. Zonta Toyota 01:14.516 65
3 F. Alonso Renault 01:14.946 118
4 A. Wurz McLaren 01:15.178 65
5 N. Heidfeld Williams 01:15.337 123
6 A. Pizzonia Williams 01:15.442 54
7 G. Fisichella Renault 01:15.462 78
8 A. Davidson BAR 01:15.500 143
9 M. Gené Ferrari 01:15.737 120
10 J. Button BAR 01:16.137 109
11 D. Coulthard Red Bull 01:16.385 111
12 O. Panis Toyota 01:17.153 47
13 J. Villeneuve Sauber 01:18.096 74

PDLR continued the impressive speed show at the weekend to top the times for McLaren.

Report on todays testing
http://www.f1racing.net/en/news.php?newsID=82285

Knowlesy · 6 Apr 2005, 17:55 (Ref:1271904)

Fisichella is apparently having a shedload of reliability problems......

Marbot · 6 Apr 2005, 17:57 (Ref:1271908)

Michelin racked up 5,000 kms today,as opposed to Bridgestones 500!

**Peter Mallett** · 6 Apr 2005, 19:55 (Ref:1272006)

Quote:

Originally Posted by martyn bott

Michelin racked up 5,000 kms today,as opposed to Bridgestones 500!

If Carlsberg did statistics this would possibly be the only statistic worth noting.

Sodemo · 6 Apr 2005, 21:48 (Ref:1272078)

Can't Bridgestone just add a zero onto all the data they get?

Rennen · 7 Apr 2005, 10:12 (Ref:1272358)

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Monster

Can't Bridgestone just add a zero onto all the data they get?

Only if all the Ferrari drivers turn up to test as well!

Dani Filth · 7 Apr 2005, 10:19 (Ref:1272361)

day's testing ..

http://aplicacions.circuitcat.com/Te...1.asp?Idioma=2

Rennen · 7 Apr 2005, 10:33 (Ref:1272370)

Tak's quick today!!!

Rennen · 7 Apr 2005, 10:35 (Ref:1272372)

See Michael sent his favourite Telletubby back to work then!

Kicking-back · 7 Apr 2005, 14:23 (Ref:1272526)

Fisi has escaped unharmed from a huge shunt, Alonso has had an engine failure, while Alex Wurz is now comfortable in the McLaren MP4/20

f1_carzy · 7 Apr 2005, 14:27 (Ref:1272531)

Yesterday it was Alonso! Yesterday also Renault had some technical problems! BAR seem to be running trouble-free. The F2005 does not look too bad on pace today:

1 Jenson Button (M) BAR M 1'14.237 97 - 224.4 102

2 Takuma Sato (M) BAR M 1'14.247 36 +0.010 224.3 108

3 Jarno Trulli (M) Toyota M 1'14.292 77 +0.055 224.2 84

4 Alex Wurz (M) McLaren M 1'14.391 15 +0.154 223.9 83

5 Rubens Barrichello (B) Ferrari B 1'14.645 46 +0.408 223.2 73

6 Fernando Alonso (M) Renault M 1'14.656 49 +0.419 223.1 56

7 Ricardo Zonta (M) Toyota M 1'14.826 100 +0.589 222.6 105

8 Kimi Raikkonen (M) McLaren M 1'14.929 65 +0.692 222.3 75

9 Giancarlo Fisichella (M) Renault M 1'15.018 30 +0.781 222.0 68

10 David Coulthard (M) Red Bull M 1'15.048 43 +0.811 222.0 60

11 Nick Heidfeld (M) Williams M 1'15.484 50 +1.247 220.7 51

12 Luca Badoer (B) Ferrari B 1'15.783 66 +1.546 219.8 84

13 Mark Webber (M) Williams M 1'16.050 24 +1.813 219.0 51

14 Felipe Massa (M) Sauber M 1'16.995 53 +2.758 216.3 74

Kicking-back · 7 Apr 2005, 14:28 (Ref:1272533)

Well, we've seen they can get one quick lap out of the F2005 - but that was never a problem.

Super Tourer · 7 Apr 2005, 14:43 (Ref:1272538)

Interesting snippet on JV

http://www.f1racing.net/en/news.php?newsID=82373

Villeneuve was supposed to continue testing for the team today, Thursday, but Sauber engineers requested Felipe Massa to get into the car instead of the former World Champion.

Villeneuve's lap times were very inconsistent. If the lap times are inconsistent it is very difficult to work on aerodynamics and thus the engineers requested Felipe Massa to replace Villeneuve," a Sauber spokesperson explained to F1Racing.net

f1_carzy · 7 Apr 2005, 14:57 (Ref:1272545)

I was quite surprised to read about the "inconsistent" lap times on different websites

. I guess what was being meant was that his times were not as expected by the engineers; because looking at his lapchart, they were as consistent as any other driver

.I must be missing something!

Kicking-back · 7 Apr 2005, 15:06 (Ref:1272548)

Autosport is exclusively reporting quotes from Villeneuve saying he was not happy with the preparation of the car either.

I think we may have seen the last of him at Sauber.

f1_carzy · 7 Apr 2005, 15:13 (Ref:1272551)

Pitpass are reporting that there is nothing sinister about it. Excerpts of the article:

Speaking to *Pitpass*, a Sauber spokesman said that nothing "sinister" should be read into the fact that Jacques Villeneuve only tested at Barcelona for one day.

"The objective of our test in Barcelona is to evaluate new aerodynamic components," Hanspeter Brack told *Pitpass*. "Our times were so slow and inconsistent on Wednesday, that the engineers are not certain about the cause.

"It was therefore decided to continue the test with Felipe Massa in order to have another reference," he added.

For some time there has been speculation that the former World Champion's position with the Swiss team is in serious jeopardy, indeed British magazine, Autosport, recently claimed that the team had held talks with BAR test driver Anthony Davidson .

At Bahrain last weekend the Canadian came close to scoring his first point since Monza
2003, until he was hit by David Coulthard in a move missed by the TV cameras.

The C24 has been disappointing thus far, despite Massa 's points at Sakhir, and the Canadian, in particular, has voiced frustration at the 'feel' of the car and its lack
of pace.

Sodemo · 7 Apr 2005, 15:14 (Ref:1272552)

What a difference a month makes!

Pre season JV was stating things like "Sauber are the only team that respects me" or words to that effect...

Kicking-back · 7 Apr 2005, 15:18 (Ref:1272556)

f1_carzy:

Of late the pitpass site seems to have been obsessed with rubbishing Autosport for some reason.

I'd take the Villeneuve quotes at Autosport at face value.

He is not happy.

f1_carzy · 7 Apr 2005, 15:27 (Ref:1272564)

Yes KB, I agree with you;I too remember seeing pitpass snub a few of Autosport articles. Well, ITV F1 are also reporting stuff on JV similar to that of Autosport.

Super Tourer · 7 Apr 2005, 15:30 (Ref:1272568)

The autosport piece paints a less than happy picture between JV and Sauber - relationship and broken down seem good descriptions.

Kicking-back · 7 Apr 2005, 15:32 (Ref:1272571)

Quote:

Originally Posted by f1_carzy

Yes KB, I agree with you;I too remember seeing pitpass snub a few of Autosport articles. Well, ITV F1 are also reporting stuff on JV similar to that of Autosport.

ITV-F1.com and Autosport-Atlas.com are both owned by Haymarket, so that makes sense.

**Peter Mallett** · 7 Apr 2005, 16:52 (Ref:1272619)

Anybody see the interview with Pollock over the weekend? He came across as someone with an extremely difficult job to do.

Kicking-back · 7 Apr 2005, 17:04 (Ref:1272626)

The very latest quote from Villeneuve, courtesy of www.autosport-atlas.com

Quote:

I am sure this situation will fire on a new set of rumours but we are used to them and it certainly won't affect our work. At this time we are trying our hardest to get the car on the pace which has been a disappointment to us all so far.

Jordi · 7 Apr 2005, 17:59 (Ref:1272658)

Which probably means that he didn't like what happened at the test, but that he ain't gonna throw his toys out of the pram. No need to get excited, folks.

Marbot · 7 Apr 2005, 18:57 (Ref:1272704)

BAR are running well,and reliably(1200kms today).
JB sets fastest lap,things are looking up.....but it's only testing.

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