1/21/2024 0 Comments F1 2017 testing dates![]() Haas were next to have problems, with mechanics having to collect Kevin Magnussen’s stopped car from the start of the pit-lane. Elsewhere, Bottas was steadily completing lap after lap, and had completed 40 laps before three hours of the session had passed. The Spaniard ran a special helmet today, which seemed to take inspiration from Red Bull’s camouflage testing livery from 2015. The team were keen to point out that it was the oil system, and not new oil supplier Castrol, at fault. Fernando Alonso was left stuck in the garage following an oil system issue which the McLaren team said could take four or five hours to fix. But it wasn’t belong before another team hit problems. ![]() The team said a sensor issue was to blame for the breakdown. In order to fix the issue, the gearbox had to be taken off the car, causing Ricciardo to sit out the rest of the morning’s running.Īfter a fifteen minute delay, the green flag was waved once again. The Australian returned to the pit-lane in a 4×4, without his car in tow. The Red Bull driver came to a halt just before Turn Four. Red Bull’s ‘unlucky for some’ slogan which they used for yesterday’s RB13 launch seemed to come back to haunt them, as Daniel Ricciardo’s car stopped out on track. With the problem soon fixed, Sebastian Vettel and Valterri Bottas began exchanging fastest lap times, with the Mercedes already lapping quicker than what we saw on the first day of testing here in 2016.įifty minutes into the session,the red flag appeared. There were some early technical gremlins as the transponder on the Ferrari and Toro Rosso cars failed, meaning their lap times were not fed back to the timing screens. Within twenty minutes of the green flag, all ten of the cars had made an appearance – highlighting the importance of track time ahead of the new season. The pit-lane opened at 9am local time and Nico Hulkenberg’s Renault was the first car out onto the track, while Valtteri Bottas was the first driver to set a lap time with a 1:33.44. ![]() Mercedes opted to run a shark fin on their car, which was a noticeable absence when the W08 was launched. Haas and Williams meanwhile took Mercedes’ lead and added a T-wing to the rear of their cars. There were few visible changes on the cars between their launch photos and the opening day of testing. Mercedes opted to follow the same split day strategy as they did with their drivers in 2016, with Valtteri Bottas driving in the morning session and Lewis Hamilton taking over in the afternoon. ![]() The drivers taking part in today’s test were: Daniel Ricciardo for Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel for Ferrari, Sergio Perez for Force India, Felipe Massa for Williams, Fernando Alonso for McLaren, Carlos Sainz for Toro Rosso, Nico Hulkenberg for Renault, Kevin Magnussen for Haas and Marcus Ericsson for Sauber. Who impressed on the opening day, and who has homework to do? Read our report as the ten teams took their cars to the track for the first time in 2017. The first of two four day tests takes place from 27th February to 2nd March. Formula One’s annual Winter Testing period began today. ![]()
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