Comments on: 2009 F1 testing: March 3rd (Update: pictures added)

By: goofy

goofy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:13:54 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHZG3OPZ7K0

By: jjkfdk

jjkfdk — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:28:09 +0000

ok! perfect, thank you very much!

By: MacademiaNut

MacademiaNut — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:06:50 +0000

I hope they are not sand-buried! It is concerning that there’s no proper times available for McLaren on the proper 2009 spec car. It’s always some element that’s missing (rear wing, tyres, etc.)

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:19:08 +0000

Actually I’ve just got some – refresh the page and you’ll see them.

By: jjkfdk

jjkfdk — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:42:09 +0000

Hi guys. I am new here, and i am italian.
Just a question…On these latest two days of testing, and also the tests on Jerez 2 weeks ago, there are not any hight resolution pics of the RB 5, like above. Why? Does any ones know why?

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:05:34 +0000

Toyota press release:

RACE SIMULATOR
Following yesterday’s rain, it was back to sunnier weather for Panasonic Toyota Racing and the seven other teams in action at Jerez today. The showers continued until shortly before the start of testing but the sun appeared soon afterwards. The tarmac took two hours to dry out but after that there was dry running for the rest of the day. Timo Glock spent the morning putting in a race simulation in the TF109. He completed the run without any problems in the changing conditions before moving on to set-up work, setting the day’s fastest lap during a late qualifying simulation. Jarno Trulli is scheduled to take over for the next two days.

Timo Glock – Chassis TF109-03
Best lap time: 1min 19.814s
Position: 1st out of 8
Total laps: 142
“That was a productive day. This morning we were again a bit unlucky with the conditions, which made the race simulation quite tough. But it was useful to find out when to change to slick tyres and our pace wasn’t bad. Then we got some dry running for the rest of the day. We did a lot of set-up work and late on we did some shorter runs to make it through the programme. We’ve made it through a lot of miles over these two days and we’re making useful progress.”

Pascal Vasselon, Senior General Manager Chassis
“This morning’s race simulation went very well. We just had to manage very transient weather and track conditions which brought us from full wet conditions at the beginning to slicks in the course of our race. Still, we went from wet tyres to slicks at exactly the right time and Timo made it through without major difficulty. All in all it was fun, interesting and valuable mileage for the car in realistic race conditions. Because we were ahead with our schedule we spent the afternoon doing some set-up work.”

By: Kristian Eriksen

Kristian Eriksen — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:26:24 +0000

Herr Glock rules again though…
(oh ps i’m probably the only Toyota F1 fan on the northern hemisphere…:P)

But also convincing by Force India! This could be a fun season!

By: Becken

Becken — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:19:48 +0000

I think McLaren is quiet. Very quiet. They are the guys who helped the FIA to shape the F1 that you are seeing now. In terms of aero concepts, they never would do a poor job in one of the key changes in the 2009 aero regulations, the rear wing.

In Melbourne we will see some surprises, I bet…

By: EGC

EGC — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:17:38 +0000

Piquet sucks, that’s all…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:36:11 +0000

I think Mclaren have a problem with the rear wing. They are the only team using what I have now counted as 3 variants, the 2008, and two 2009 designs.