Pre-2007 Season Testing

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:02 pm

Ed wrote:Luca Badoer has just put in a 1:16.626!
Heikki Kovalainen in second has set a 1:17.283.
Marc Gene is up in 3rd with a 1:17.746

Mike Hakkinen has completed 11 laps with a best time of 1:41.839!

What the heck is he driving? A Rolls Royce?

Hmm, perheps he's doing a special test on something. Otherwise I cannot believe there can be that much of a difference.

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:04 pm

gkaytaz wrote:
Ed wrote:Luca Badoer has just put in a 1:16.626!
Heikki Kovalainen in second has set a 1:17.283.
Marc Gene is up in 3rd with a 1:17.746

Mike Hakkinen has completed 11 laps with a best time of 1:41.839!
What the heck is he driving? A Rolls Royce?

Hmm, perheps he's doing a special test on something. Otherwise I cannot believe there can be that much of a difference.

Sounds like he is testing driving while having the brakes on.

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:08 pm

Heikki has now done a 1'16.609, so they have been sandbagging for two days!

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:12 pm

jacfan wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:
Ed wrote:Luca Badoer has just put in a 1:16.626!
Heikki Kovalainen in second has set a 1:17.283.
Marc Gene is up in 3rd with a 1:17.746

Mike Hakkinen has completed 11 laps with a best time of 1:41.839!
What the heck is he driving? A Rolls Royce?

Hmm, perheps he's doing a special test on something. Otherwise I cannot believe there can be that much of a difference.
Sounds like he is testing driving while having the brakes on.

Mika has been on a simulator for a few days, reality seems to be a little more REAL and perhaps a little more frightening. Of course the reality is that 2006 F1 cars are very different from 1999 F1 cars.

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:12 pm

Both Badoer and Kovalainen continue to improve. Badoer has now set a 1:16.317 while Kovalainen sets a 1:16.609. The rest are in the 1:17's or slower.

Hakkinen has put in a 1:32.994. I suspect he will eventually get into the 1:20's but will be very surprised if he improves further.
Remember that Hakkinen hasn't driven a Formula 1 car since 2001 so he needs to build that confidence.

Anthony Davidson is worth a mention again. He is 8th fastest in the Super Aguri!

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:13 pm

A few days on the stimulator would not be the same as behind the wheel.

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:18 pm

Snowy wrote:Heikki has now done a 1'16.609, so they have been sandbagging for two days!

I suspect that it took them some time to adapt the car to the Bridgestone tyres. The times Kovalainen is setting now more reflects the pace of the 06 car (as compared to Ferrari).

Keep in mind that for all the teams except Ferrari and Toyota this is the final day of testing and usually they go for quick times on the last day.
Expect even quicker times later today!

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:22 pm

jacfan wrote:A few days on the stimulator would not be the same as behind the wheel.

Very true and add to that, Hakkinen in 2001 saw his form drop off dramatically as if he 'lost interest'.
Only they know what times he did set on the simulator but given that Ron Dennis clearly stated that this is pretty much a one off test, he knew that Hakkinen won't be setting very fast times today!

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:51 pm

Mika does a 1'25.880. Lewis does a 1'17.077

TheFinn · Post by **TheFinn** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:52 pm

Ed wrote:Both Badoer and Kovalainen continue to improve. Badoer has now set a 1:16.317 while Kovalainen sets a 1:16.609. The rest are in the 1:17's or slower.

Hakkinen has put in a 1:32.994. I suspect he will eventually get into the 1:20's but will be very surprised if he improves further.
Remember that Hakkinen hasn't driven a Formula 1 car since 2001 so he needs to build that confidence.

Anthony Davidson is worth a mention again. He is 8th fastest in the Super Aguri!

Greetings to ya all! Where do you guys get the times for testing??

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:55 pm

TheFinn wrote: Greetings to ya all! Where do you guys get the times for testing??

http://www.circuitcat.com/ingles/index.asp

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:02 pm

Does anybody else suspect Anthony Davidson is actually driving a Honda and not a Super Aguri?

It's a bit suspicious that they only have one car at the test don't you think?

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:06 pm

TheFinn wrote:
Ed wrote:Both Badoer and Kovalainen continue to improve. Badoer has now set a 1:16.317 while Kovalainen sets a 1:16.609. The rest are in the 1:17's or slower.

Hakkinen has put in a 1:32.994. I suspect he will eventually get into the 1:20's but will be very surprised if he improves further.
Remember that Hakkinen hasn't driven a Formula 1 car since 2001 so he needs to build that confidence.

Anthony Davidson is worth a mention again. He is 8th fastest in the Super Aguri!
Greetings to ya all! Where do you guys get the times for testing??

Welcome TheFinn!

The second post of this thread contains a direct link to the Java Window for the test session in Barcelona. Here is the link again

So why do you think Hakkinen is testing again ?

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:07 pm

Hakkinen sets a 1:21.201. That is more like it

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:13 pm

Snowy wrote:Does anybody else suspect Anthony Davidson is actually driving a Honda and not a Super Aguri?

It's a bit suspicious that they only have one car at the test don't you think?

Good point Snowy, the official team press releases call it the SF1 team interim car. That doesn't have the designation of last year's cars (SA06).
However, Super Aguri cannot just use the Honda. It could be the SA06 with a Honda rear end or something!

As for the one car, well they could be short on resources or drivers. Williams are only testing with one car and Spyker are not testing at all.

One thing for sure, if they are using a fully built Honda, they'll be some protests!