Red Bull Racing: Barcelona Day 2 Report


By Ian Lockwood
February 26 2008

Mark’s programme focused on evaluating some new development car parts in preparation for Melbourne and his day was therefore mainly data driven. Although some minor issues cost the team some time, valuable information was gained ahead of the first race in Australia.

Christian Horner: "Unfortunately David suffered a trapped nerve in his neck yesterday, so we took the precautionary measure of giving him a day to recover ahead of the final day of testing and this near to the start of the season. It was logical to use Sebastian Vettel to continue testing, evaluating various important pre- Melbourne developments. We're grateful to Toro Rosso for making him available to us today. All being well, David will be back in the car tomorrow morning."

Sebastian  quickly  acclimatised  himself  with  the  RB4,  and  focused  on  evaluating various set-ups, notching up 110 laps in the process.

Drivers:  Mark Webber       RB4 - 02 Time: 1:23.458, Laps: 58   

              Sebastian Vettel   RB4 - 01 Time: 1:22.558, Laps 110

Fastest Lap:  L. Hamilton: 1:21.234

Circuit length: 4.655 km

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Red Bull Racing: Barcelona Day 2 Report
Discussion started by Racing Bulls , 26/02/2008 19:54
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Red Bull Racing: Barcelona Day 2 Report

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ck11
26/02/2008 21:36
More "minor problems". What are the odds that the car has a reliability failure in melbourne?

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growler
26/02/2008 22:16
"Minor Problems" could cover a multitude of things, many of which would not stop a car during a GP.

During testing the drivers have to stop when a "minor problem" is detected as it makes it much easier to analyse where a problem originated and what may have caused it. In a race situation these problems are "driven around".

If we look at todays test session, Kubica stopped on track twice, and Fisi, Heikki, Hamilton, Kimi & Button all stopped once. I'm pretty sure that we will not see that level of mechnaical drop outs in Melbourne.

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ck11
27/02/2008 01:07
Hope so growler, the nightmares of last year are unfortunately still a bit fresh. All will be revealed race day.

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chrislinford
27/02/2008 12:00
Remember the minor problems everyone had when they introduced launch control; half the field were left standing on the grid.

Chris

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