F1 » Hakkinen not expecting Mercedes challenge

He's right seems Mercedes has a lot of catching up to do particurly in the aero dept.

Yes, but Nikki Lauda thinks that Mercedes can challenge the top teams and surely he's in a better position to know?

brawn mercedes then mercedes petronas.... william bmw then bmw sauber.... sauber petronas..... bmw just 3 years out became sauber. .. mercedes. ... brawn honda and honda out

In some respects I can agree with Mika. In three years they seem to have stagnated and shown no signs of improving. I mean, the cars have been chewing their rear tyres up since they were Brawn and Honda.

And the Brawn car was on Bridgestones 'hard as nails' compounds.

Hmmmmmm new layout

What exactly was he expecting? Even if Merc where fastest on all 4 days people would have just said they had low fuel. If I recall correctly Vettel was 8 tenths off the fastest time in 2011 pre season testing and then he dominated qualifying in Melbourne.

Nice layout. Well done crash.

I agree with Meka for the frist half, but hopeful Merc will get better by mid season.. Best to the team.

Up to this first testing season the Mercedes has the biggest drop off in performance on the longer runs out of the top six teams (tyre degradation).
Nice new format Crash but the site is still near impossible to use due to the slowness which seems to be getting worse.