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107SS2009

May 28, 2013 7:13 PM

F1 » Teams warned that Pirelli test could not be ‘in-season’


Mercedes was not under any obligation to contact other teams and advertise the test. The test is supposed to have belonged to Pirelli solely for testing tyres. It looks like Charlie Whiting trusted Mercedes so much that he didn’t felt the need to have FIA inspectors present for the test to make sure Mercedes didn’t took the opportunity to test upgrades to the car such as new suspension parts, brake ducts and upgrades to their least developed of all the front runners coanda exhaust system, to make sure that a two year old model car is used, to make sure that their main drivers are not used. Charlie Whiting (might be not on his own) is one very big part in this mess the FIA has found itself in.

107SS2009

May 28, 2013 6:25 PM

F1 » Hamilton not focusing on Barcelona test row


Prof-X, “less than one tenth of a second” qualifying gets the drivers no points, as I have already explained it’s the driving style with the FRIC system which is near impossible to suit both drivers driving styles. Livemusik, I don’t expect the outcome to effect the drivers, the drivers taking part in the test is the responsibility of the team.

107SS2009

May 28, 2013 5:43 PM

F1 » FIA hints at possible Mercedes sanctions


Richard, the way I understand it is, each driver or better say each car (note about this later) is allocated eight engines for the season, the use of these eight engines will have to cover qualifying and race, practice one and two (Friday) does not effect this allocation, the teams make use of a full mileage engine on a Friday, the engines used in testing before the season starts and those used in other tests such as this 1000km test Mercedes done, also those used in tests for young drivers , straight line tests and promotional running does not count towards or effect the eight engines allocation, some teams ran engines for four qualifying and races last year. The note about why better say the allocation is for the car and not the driver, when Del La Rosa was replaced at Sauber Headfield inherited the engines left which were allocated to Pedro so engines are allocated to the car and not the driver.

107SS2009

May 27, 2013 9:37 PM

F1 » FIA hints at possible Mercedes sanctions


Richard, the driver (Rosberg) Monaco win and points will not be touched whatever the outcome. Mercedes made changes in their approach to the tyres in Monaco, made changes to the suspension, made changes to brake ducts, made changes to the exhaust/plum path which shows that they had benefitted from the test, before the test they were the only team running their tyres 20 degrees too hot and so they were the fastest destructing their tyres. Regulations clearly states that teams are not allowed to test current cars with their current drivers outside of official testing during the season, Charlie Whiting says not aware that Mercedes would use a current car and drivers for the test, says approval was conditional upon the test being run by Pirelli not the team.

107SS2009

May 27, 2013 8:38 PM

F1 » FIA hints at possible Mercedes sanctions


The only way for the FIA to restore some credibility to themselves is (1) grant all teams a three day 1000km test with the same amount of notice time Mercedes had to prepare themselves for the test (2) disqualify Mercedes from the Monaco results and any results in races that takes place until all teams had tested (3) heavily fine both Mercedes and Pirelli for willingly and knowingly breaching the rules (using a current car and their registered drivers).

107SS2009

May 27, 2013 7:34 PM

F1 » FIA hints at possible Mercedes sanctions


Richard, Mercedes is also said to have contacted the FIA and I can’t imagine they didn’t, it is totally wrong for the police to charge someone of steeling valuables left laying around unwatched/unattended by the same police. I cannot for the life of me imagine such a big and critical test not being policed by the FIA in person. The FIA not having policed this test in person is a very big slip on their part, a slip so big that it renders the FIA as corrupted/contaminated/ as having abducted its duties.

107SS2009

May 27, 2013 6:31 PM

F1 » FIA hints at possible Mercedes sanctions


Taz, do you expect the FIA will clobber Pirelli too? Pirelli has no less blame than Mercedes. As I said, considering that this was going to be a three day 1000km test the FIA seems to have been in total hibernation/totally inactive with all its responsibilities trusted/shifted upon Pirelli and Mercedes, that’s why I said that all the blame for this mess lays on the FIA door step.


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