Re: Mercedes F1 W04 online reveal
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:49 pm
Mercedes sponsored by BlackBerry. Hamilton tweets via iPhone #Fail.
A2jdl wrote:i can tell by the HelmetJohnston wrote:Covalent wrote: Is that Lewis and not Nico?
And so it begins!!
On race day look at the T cam not the Helmet
But who is the No.1 then ?
A2jdl wrote:i can tell by the HelmetJohnston wrote:Covalent wrote: Is that Lewis and not Nico?
And so it begins!!
On race day look at the T cam not the Helmet
But who is the No.1 then ?
Does that mean Massa is No.1 at Ferrari then? WowJohnston wrote:A2jdl wrote:i can tell by the HelmetJohnston wrote:Covalent wrote: Is that Lewis and not Nico?
And so it begins!!
On race day look at the T cam not the Helmet
But who is the No.1 then ?
Obviously Nico. He got to drive the car first
According to Hamilton it was a procedure.Malkiiin wrote:According to Twitter, the car went past the pits slow and was pushed back into its Garage..
..apparently it 'ran out of fuel'.
Doesn't bode well does it.
Malkiiin wrote:According to Twitter, the car went past the pits slow and was pushed back into its Garage..
..apparently it 'ran out of fuel'.
Doesn't bode well does it.
What purpose would this serve?Moore wrote:According to Hamilton it was a procedure.Malkiiin wrote:According to Twitter, the car went past the pits slow and was pushed back into its Garage..
..apparently it 'ran out of fuel'.
Doesn't bode well does it.
To give the mechanics practice of pushing the 2013 car away after another mechanical failure!Malkiiin wrote:What purpose would this serve?Moore wrote:According to Hamilton it was a procedure.Malkiiin wrote:According to Twitter, the car went past the pits slow and was pushed back into its Garage..
..apparently it 'ran out of fuel'.
Doesn't bode well does it.
To check gauges are working correctly, fuel pick up limits etc. Basically verifying.Malkiiin wrote:
What purpose would this serve?
So obviously, Massa is the Nr 1, Pedro the Nr 2, and Alonso only Nr3 at Ferrari?Johnston wrote:A2jdl wrote:i can tell by the HelmetJohnston wrote:Covalent wrote: Is that Lewis and not Nico?
And so it begins!!
On race day look at the T cam not the Helmet
But who is the No.1 then ?
Obviously Nico. He got to drive the car first
to look how low on fuel they can run, before they stopMalkiiin wrote:What purpose would this serve?Moore wrote:According to Hamilton it was a procedure.Malkiiin wrote:According to Twitter, the car went past the pits slow and was pushed back into its Garage..
..apparently it 'ran out of fuel'.
Doesn't bode well does it.
Probably a check. To check no adverse effects of a car running out of fuel, which could happen.Malkiiin wrote:What purpose would this serve?Moore wrote:According to Hamilton it was a procedure.Malkiiin wrote:According to Twitter, the car went past the pits slow and was pushed back into its Garage..
..apparently it 'ran out of fuel'.
Doesn't bode well does it.
Haribo wrote: So obviously, Massa is the Nr 1, Pedro the Nr 2, and Alonso only Nr3 at Ferrari?
Webber Nr1 and Vettel Nr2, too?
And people said we don't need the numbers and flags printed big on the engine cover!BrazilLastCorner2008 wrote:Gonna have nightmares telling Nico and Lewis apart at Silverstone this year!
Color of the T-Bar should help.BrazilLastCorner2008 wrote:Gonna have nightmares telling Nico and Lewis apart at Silverstone this year!
How good are your eyes to spot a T-bar 6 inches long from 60 - 100 yards away as it travels over 150 mph?!RaggedMan wrote:Color of the T-Bar should help.BrazilLastCorner2008 wrote:Gonna have nightmares telling Nico and Lewis apart at Silverstone this year!
JohnnyGuitar wrote:I'm of the opinion that we will have some closing up of the top teams this year; some of Red Bull's advantages have been eroded - because of the changes to the DRS rules and front wing load tests, as well as other teams have been able to incorporate their ideas around the rear of the car.
Added to the fact that they were actually close to being on the pace in the early stages of last season before they discovered the double DRS led them up a development blind-alley and they then obviously switched off developing the W03 to concentrate on this car, I expect them to be closer to the top 4 than in 2012; they will win races. (Oh yes, they've also improved their driver line-up too!)
BBRY has about $2.9 billion in cash, more than enough to pay Mercedes for 2013 season. Obviously if company situation was superb they wouldn't need such a extensive advertising. When you see that company is advertising more than it usually does, you can be quite sure that it is in troubles. The question is whether it is real Lewis tweeting or some PR person.RickM wrote:Given BlackBerry's financial situation I doubt they were bringing enough money to make demands like that. They have been in pretty serious financial difficulty for a few years now, and their products just arent selling. If the BB10 flops (which its obviously expected to do) it'll likely be the end for them.Nyphur wrote:Doubtful - him being seen using anything other than a blackberry will probably trigger some clause in he sponsorship contract.RickM wrote:I guarantee that he'll have an iPhone or s3 in his pocket for personal use. You'd be crazy to try and use a blackberry as your main phone these days. Nasty, nasty devices.Laura23 wrote:Hamilton's BlackBerry or his car...
ExactlySilverstoneRegular wrote:How good are your eyes to spot a T-bar 6 inches long from 60 - 100 yards away as it travels over 150 mph?!RaggedMan wrote:Color of the T-Bar should help.BrazilLastCorner2008 wrote:Gonna have nightmares telling Nico and Lewis apart at Silverstone this year!
T-Bar doesn't always help, it's been a pain trying to tell the STR boys apart in 2012, and I remember once Vettel had a helmet that looked similar to Webbers with a yellow top and I was always second guessing my self on who it was, especially when they showed the T-Bar camera where you cant see the red/yellow colour on top of the car. In races its not so bad as you can tell where certain drivers are in relation to the rest of the field, but in practice, qualifying or when one of them is shown on the side of the road it takes a few moments to figure out who it is.RaggedMan wrote:Color of the T-Bar should help.BrazilLastCorner2008 wrote:Gonna have nightmares telling Nico and Lewis apart at Silverstone this year!
RaggedMan wrote:Color of the T-Bar should help.BrazilLastCorner2008 wrote:Gonna have nightmares telling Nico and Lewis apart at Silverstone this year!
Pretty much what I was thinking too.ebanks wrote:Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, but....
http://youtu.be/D6TZOoLCXNI
Dont want to read too much into the short interview, but Lewis didnt seem happy, especially when you contrast how Nico was after his drive, Nico said similar things regarding "wrong tires" and "waiting until testing" etc but he still seemed a lot more upbeat than Lewis.
As a Lewis fan admittedly i'm hoping that Im just reading too much into things, but you know when Lewis is happy about something as his face is very easy to read and to me he looks concerned.
Thought....
Thoguht the same too. No doubt he was comparing it to the McLaren.Warheart01 wrote:Pretty much what I was thinking too.ebanks wrote:Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, but....
http://youtu.be/D6TZOoLCXNI
Dont want to read too much into the short interview, but Lewis didnt seem happy, especially when you contrast how Nico was after his drive, Nico said similar things regarding "wrong tires" and "waiting until testing" etc but he still seemed a lot more upbeat than Lewis.
As a Lewis fan admittedly i'm hoping that Im just reading too much into things, but you know when Lewis is happy about something as his face is very easy to read and to me he looks concerned.
Thought....
I'm sure you're right, which it was why i felt it so strange that he came across so underwhelmed. I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings....Johnston wrote:Lads and Ladettes. It's testing this is what it is for. Look at McLaren in '11 they hardly ran a full race distance in all the tests combined. Look how that turned out. Or Lotus and their dodgy chassis last year.
Jerez is basically a shakedown anyway to niggle out these problems as well.
As gets said every year. It's only testing it means nothing.
I agree with you. According to last year's Jerez and Barcelona results, either Williams or Lotus should've been the top dogs. McLarens barely scratched 4th or 5th on the time sheets yet they came as the first title contenders. Similarly, Red Bull didn't show anything during the tests, yet on Australia they were totally different. And don't forget the trick of DDRS the Merc came only in Australia when everybody started to panic on FP2 Melbourne '12 when Schumacher finished first.Johnston wrote:Lads and Ladettes. It's testing this is what it is for. Look at McLaren in '11 they hardly ran a full race distance in all the tests combined. Look how that turned out. Or Lotus and their dodgy chassis last year.
Jerez is basically a shakedown anyway to niggle out these problems as well.
As gets said every year. It's only testing it means nothing.
who would've thunk that a team which made poor cars three years in a row, would suck again.SteveC84 wrote:Thoguht the same too. No doubt he was comparing it to the McLaren.Warheart01 wrote:Pretty much what I was thinking too.ebanks wrote:Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, but....
http://youtu.be/D6TZOoLCXNI
Dont want to read too much into the short interview, but Lewis didnt seem happy, especially when you contrast how Nico was after his drive, Nico said similar things regarding "wrong tires" and "waiting until testing" etc but he still seemed a lot more upbeat than Lewis.
As a Lewis fan admittedly i'm hoping that Im just reading too much into things, but you know when Lewis is happy about something as his face is very easy to read and to me he looks concerned.
Thought....
This, especially since the rules are pretty much the same as last year. No team is suddenly going to find over a second with a car that is just a evolution of the previous one. It'll take time and effort and possibly a massive upheaval in the rules before that will happen. 2014 is make or break for Merc and Hamilton.garagetinkerer wrote:who would've thunk that a team which made poor cars three years in a row, would suck again.SteveC84 wrote:Thoguht the same too. No doubt he was comparing it to the McLaren.Warheart01 wrote:Pretty much what I was thinking too.ebanks wrote:Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, but....
http://youtu.be/D6TZOoLCXNI
Dont want to read too much into the short interview, but Lewis didnt seem happy, especially when you contrast how Nico was after his drive, Nico said similar things regarding "wrong tires" and "waiting until testing" etc but he still seemed a lot more upbeat than Lewis.
As a Lewis fan admittedly i'm hoping that Im just reading too much into things, but you know when Lewis is happy about something as his face is very easy to read and to me he looks concerned.
Thought....