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Testing might not mean anything, but pretty sure that can only be true to a certain degree...I mean, there must be a lap time threshold where you just have to accept a team is very fast?

After Day One Massa said Button's 1:18.8 was an "incredible" time, so I don't think he'll be too chipper about Grosjean's 1:18.2

Clearly illegal. I mean...how little does a sponsor have to pay to get THAT spot?

Also, you have to consider the amount of fuel the teams are running as well. In addition, the type of tires RoGro was on during the lap because teams are testing out all of the tires.

Its many things to consider for the lap.

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Button was allegedly on the Hard tyre, Ro gro was on the medium so not sure on any of it

Outlap - 1:18.218 - 1:29.857 - 1:19.393 - 1:21.322 - Inlap on soft tyres...

could be a qualifying-simulation or a tyre-test a la "how well do the tyres cope with torture during early laps" .... while typing i realized: could very well also be a test for how the tyres will do after you put in a quick qualifying lap, followed by an simulated inlap since those will be the tires you'll have to start your race with...

hahaha all that space on the car and you get you logo placed where no one can see it! genius! id be pretty pissed if id paid to have my company name on a car and it was placed there.

I think it is exactly the opposite. Everyone is taking pics of that exhaust; it is the exact right place to put their logo, for a fraction of the price!

Thats why the exhaust is illegal. Cause the sponsor knows pictures will be spread of it with their logo on. come the start of season the exhaust will be legal and the sponsor gone.

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seriously? have you noticed how often pictures of exhaust-areas were taken last year? with that in mind i would love to spend my marketing money on a spot near the exhaust...

however - that might be the strategy anyway ... caterham could have come up with an offer that will draw attention to their exhausts so the sponsor gets some additional close-ups - just to get rid of it for the second round of testing... F1's also about the show, right?

Quite a clever thing as well!

Isnt that the FIA action for road safety logo under there? Nobody has paid to put that on the car, its required.

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And thats the exact reason im not in marketing! very clever thinking.

What exactly is wrong with the Caterham exhaust? the little winglet at the end?

Once the exhaust tailpipes, the bodywork required by Article 3.8.4 and any apertures permitted by Article 3.8.5 have been fully defined there must be no bodywork lying within a right circular truncated cone which :

a) Shares a common axis with that of the last 100mm of the tailpipe.

b) Has a forward diameter equal to that of each exhaust exit.

c) Starts at the exit of the tailpipe and extends rearwards as far as the rear wheel centre line.

d) Has a half-cone angle of 3° such that the cone has its larger diameter at the rear wheel centre line.

Furthermore, there must be a view from above, the side, or any intermediate angle perpendicular to the car centre line, from which the truncated cone is not obscured by any bodywork lying more than 50mm forward of the rear wheel centre line.

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Where can you send questions to Bottas?

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"OHO!-magazine number 46/2006: - I read somewhere that I drive with the luck of a drunk."

maybe @autosportlive?

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Too late froze...check out his responses on the autosport live comments page

Yeah I just noticed.

The last answer was brilliant though:

What are your aims for the season?

Bottas: "To improve as a driver, as quickly and as well as possible. To learn from possible mistakes. To quite quickly manage to keep up with Pastor and put the car where it really belongs. In other words, to get everything out of the car as soon as possible and get to the stage of MAXIMUM ATTACK."

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"OHO!-magazine number 46/2006: - I read somewhere that I drive with the luck of a drunk."

Well maybe his twitter account than

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I think it's good for Caterham. Let them have there fancy exhaust. Nothing illegal about. Little guys got to move up some way.

So, romain on a long run now..Let's see what laptimes the lotus gonna do now...

so, what did i miss today while i was at work?

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Clearly break failure

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Merc is more in need of sparing themselves embarrassment than their driver is right now.

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They've got different coloured recovery trucks, so there's that.

But that's only their cars... Surely they'll need to ensure they have different coloured scooters to return to the pits on...

Very...

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I hope you are not a Mercedes fan!

I was last year

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Fastest laps - Day 2
01. Grosjean/Lotus - 1:18.218 - 95 Laps
02. di Resta/Force India - 1:19.003 + 0.785 - 95 Laps
03. Ricciardo/Toro Rosso - 1:19.134 + 0.916 - 83 Laps
04. Webber/Red Bull - 1:19.338 + 1.120 - 101 Laps
05. Hulkenberg/Sauber - 1:19.502 + 1.284 - 99 Laps
06. Hamilton/Mercedes - 1:19.519 + 1.301 - 15 Laps
07. Perez/McLaren - 1:19.572 + 1.354 - 81 Laps
08. Massa/Ferrari - 1:19.914 + 1.696 - 78 Laps
09. Maldonado/Williams - 1:20.693 + 2.475 - 71 Laps
10. Rossiter/Force India - 1:21.273 + 3.055 - 19 Laps
11. van der Garde/Caterham - 1:21.311 + 3.093 - 88 Laps
12. Razia/Marussia - 1:23.537 + 5.319 - 31 Laps

FI have done 203 laps (114 laps today and 89 on day one), Mercedes with 26 laps in two days.

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I predict: a record # of pit stops in the first couple of races.

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Grosjean WDC?

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The amount of words being swallowed would create a famine.

Obviously Kimi is the more likely, though.

Think the C's exhaust might just be legal, if that winglet is just below the 'cone' coming out of the pipe. We haven't got a good enough view to tell.

Circuito de Jerez, Spain 2013
Length: 4.428 km / 2.751 miles

Fastest laps

01. Grosjean/Lotus - 1:18.218
02. Button/McLaren - 1:18.861 + 0.643
03. di Resta/Force India - 1:19.003 + 0.785
04. Ricciardo/Toro Rosso - 1:19.134 + 0.916
05. Webber/Red Bull - 1:19.338 + 1.120
06. Hulkenberg/Sauber - 1:19.502 + 1.284
07. Hamilton/Mercedes - 1:19.519 + 1.301
08. Perez/McLaren - 1:19.572 + 1.354
09. Massa/Ferrari - 1:19.914 + 1.696
10. Maldonado/Williams - 1:20.693 + 2.475
11. Rosberg/Mercedes - 1:20.846 + 2.628
12. Rossiter/Force India - 1:21.273 + 3.055
13. van der Garde/Caterham - 1:21.311 + 3.093
14. Razia/Marussia - 1:23.537 + 5.319
15. Chilton/Marussia - 1:24.176 + 5.958

Driver Mileage

01. di Resta/Force India - 184 Laps
02. Hulkenberg/Sauber - 178 Laps
03. Webber/Red Bull - 174 Laps
04. Maldonado/Williams - 155 Laps
05. Ricciardo/Toro Rosso - 153 Laps
06. van der Garde/Caterham - 152 Laps
07. Grosjean/Lotus - 149 Laps
08. Massa/Ferrari - 142 Laps
09. Perez/McLaren - 81 Laps
10. Button/McLaren - 37 Laps
11. Razia/Marussia - 31 Laps
12. Chilton/Marussia - 29 Laps
13. Rossiter/Force India - 19 Laps
14. Hamilton/Mercedes - 15 Laps
15. Rosberg/Mercedes - 11 Laps

Team Mileage

01. Force India - 204 Laps / 903km
02. Sauber - 178 Laps / 788km
03. Red Bull - 174 Laps / 770km
04. Williams - 155 Laps / 686km
05. Toro Rosso - 153 Laps / 677km
06. Caterham - 152 Laps / 673km
07. Lotus - 149 Laps / 659km
08. Ferrari - 142 Laps / 628km
09. McLaren - 118 Laps / 522km
10. Marussia - 60 Laps / 265km
11. Mercedes - 26 Laps / 115km

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While winter testing should not be just ignored when it comes to the overall performance, that's a bit too much.