0.6 Away from Ferrari
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0.6 Away from Ferrari
For those of you, that take into account testing, have you seen the latest news of Maca? 
.6 away, and with Ferrari sandbagging Donkey who ?
By Sam Cooper - February 27 2007
With Spains reigning double world champion Fernando Alonso and Britain’s Lewis Hamilton both completed the days testing finishing 3rd and 5th out of 17 runners. Fernando completed a reasonable 96 laps today, with Lewis completing 55 laps of the Bahrain circuit
Although the Woking based squad didn’t finish fastest on the first day they still have two more days to prove themselves as a fast team that has a good chance of winning, if we look into these testing times a lot though, we appear the best of the rest, which isn’t that bad in my opinion!
One of our main rivals Renault suffered a major setback today after finish superstar Hekki Kovalainen crashed heavily into the barriers at turn seven, thus ending his day completely.
So, why are the McLaren team slower than Ferrari could be one two reasons. Maca may be sandbagging their real pace, possibly by doing long runs to max out their reliability, or so they can get a good feel for how the car performs under long runs in the searing Middle Eastern heat. Ferrari could have been running some new aerodynamics parts to the car, McLaren may have not of brought them to this day of testing, have they got any more parts to run on the car or is the MP4-22 going to get no better until Melbourne?
Being fastest on testing is one thing, it may boost your teams moral, but completing your days work and getting valuable information from the car is a far greater asset, being reasonably fast (like we are) helps too!
Testing will continue tomorrow (Wednesday)
The Complete days testing will be shown below.
Constructor
Time
Kimi RäikkönenFerrari01:31.59095
and Vadim, told you Massa is gona kick Kimis ***
.6 away, and with Ferrari sandbagging Donkey who ? By Sam Cooper - February 27 2007
With Spains reigning double world champion Fernando Alonso and Britain’s Lewis Hamilton both completed the days testing finishing 3rd and 5th out of 17 runners. Fernando completed a reasonable 96 laps today, with Lewis completing 55 laps of the Bahrain circuit
Although the Woking based squad didn’t finish fastest on the first day they still have two more days to prove themselves as a fast team that has a good chance of winning, if we look into these testing times a lot though, we appear the best of the rest, which isn’t that bad in my opinion!
One of our main rivals Renault suffered a major setback today after finish superstar Hekki Kovalainen crashed heavily into the barriers at turn seven, thus ending his day completely.
So, why are the McLaren team slower than Ferrari could be one two reasons. Maca may be sandbagging their real pace, possibly by doing long runs to max out their reliability, or so they can get a good feel for how the car performs under long runs in the searing Middle Eastern heat. Ferrari could have been running some new aerodynamics parts to the car, McLaren may have not of brought them to this day of testing, have they got any more parts to run on the car or is the MP4-22 going to get no better until Melbourne?
Being fastest on testing is one thing, it may boost your teams moral, but completing your days work and getting valuable information from the car is a far greater asset, being reasonably fast (like we are) helps too!
Testing will continue tomorrow (Wednesday)
The Complete days testing will be shown below.
Position
Driver
Driver
Constructor
Time
Laps
1Felipe Massa Ferrari01:31.2601022Kimi RäikkönenFerrari01:31.59095
and Vadim, told you Massa is gona kick Kimis ***
Last edited by egxpimp; Feb 27, 2007 at 01:51 PM.
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fastest times mean nothing during testing.. they also mean nothing during an actual race (McLaren often had the fastest times during the 2006 season yet look how competitive they were... depends on consistency and race strategy)... you don't know what set-ups each teams are running and how much fuel they are carrying compared to each other...
and the McLaren's have been on top on numerous occasions before today...
Here's Feb 24th times:
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:30.994 73
2. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:31.094 53
3. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:31.718 52
4. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:31.867 100
5. Kovalainen Renault (B) 1:32.032 86
6. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:32.115 129
7. Button Honda (B) 1:32.137 78
8. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:32.220 73
9. Piquet Renault (B) 1:32.334 102
almost a second between Massa and Alonso.. means nothing
and the McLaren's have been on top on numerous occasions before today...
Here's Feb 24th times:
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:30.994 73
2. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:31.094 53
3. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:31.718 52
4. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:31.867 100
5. Kovalainen Renault (B) 1:32.032 86
6. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:32.115 129
7. Button Honda (B) 1:32.137 78
8. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:32.220 73
9. Piquet Renault (B) 1:32.334 102
almost a second between Massa and Alonso.. means nothing
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Out of approx 12 days of testing, Ferrari has only been on top twice, perhaps three times. With Williams taking one day, I think the rest were all Maca.
So blah!
E
So blah!
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good point E!
But, Maca is usually hecka quick during testing...season comes, and they are slow as pigs! LOL i'll be honest, i'm scared that donkey might when the 3rd...
... if he does i think ill go crazy p.s. Ferrari is known to show its true power a few days before the season opening so
