Winter Testing Reliability Guide

• HENG@

  1 Mar 06, 17:53

  from f1.racing-live.com
  
  Honda is most reliable '06 team
  With an average of 438 km on a single test day
  
  Honda, an outside tip for championship glory, has been the most reliable formula one team of the 2006 pre-season.
  
  While a similar analysis named the Brackley based outfit as the biggest testers, 'Auto Motor Und Sport' now reveals that the Japan-owned camp topped F1's eleven teams in a study of those least likely to break down this year.
  
  With an average of 438 kilometres on a single test day, the German magazine lists Honda ahead of F1 rival and second most reliable team Renault, which clocks up an average 399km.
  
  Perhaps unsurprisingly, Toro Rosso - with a development of last year's Red Bull car and a V10 engine - came in third (376km), ahead of BMW (355) and Toyota (294).
  
  Ominously, '05 runner up McLaren is just sixth of the eleven teams, with an average of less than 300km per test day, but Ferrari fared even worse, collecting just 278 km per day to finish eighth.
  
  Williams amassed 280km per winter test day, according to Auto Motor Und Sport, MF1 came next (272), then Red Bull (175) and Super Aguri (173).
  
  ''I feel very comfortable going into the first race,'' Honda's Rubens Barrichello said last week.
  
  Summary of Ranking:
  
  Honda F1 Team 438km
  
  Renault F1 399km
  
  Toro Rosso 376km
  
  BMW Sauber F1 355km
  
  Toyota F1 294km
  
  McLaren less than 300km
  
  Williams F1 280km
  
  Ferrari 278km
  
  Midland F1 272km
  
  Red Bull Racing 175km
  
  Super Aguri F1 173km
• Kuali Baba

  1 Mar 06, 22:27

  But there's no telling who's the fastest yet.
• HENG@

  3 Mar 06, 02:40

  Originally posted by Kuali Baba:

  But there's no telling who's the fastest yet.

  yea hard to say. look at the amt of laps mclaren suddenly did on the last day, as well as setting the fastest ever time for a V8 car around valencia!
• Kuali Baba

  4 Mar 06, 08:36

  Originally posted by HENG@:

  yea hard to say. look at the amt of laps mclaren suddenly did on the last day, as well as setting the fastest ever time for a V8 car around valencia!

  Erm Valencia's not a good place to gauge a car's performance, as I've mentioned in seasons past...remember the MP4-19 and the C24?
• Gedanken

  4 Mar 06, 08:55

  Three words, guys: it's only testing.
• Kuali Baba

  4 Mar 06, 09:11

  And on Thursday Davidson beat that Kimi lap by almost a second.
• iveco

  6 Mar 06, 21:59

  Super Aguri doing tests? Meaning we'll be seeing 22 cars this season? Cool.
  
  Curtain-raiser begins this weekend @ Bahrain GP.
• HENG@

  7 Mar 06, 20:15

  this weekend! this weekend!