2007/08 Off-Season Thread

• Kuali Baba

  27 Jan 08, 03:39

  Force India will launch a heavily modified version of last year's car, which it will begin the 2008 campaign with, in Mumbai on 7 February.
• Kuali Baba

  29 Jan 08, 21:26

  The new Honda RA108 in its 2008 livery:

  

• Kuali Baba

  31 Jan 08, 22:08

  Presenting the Renault R28:

  

• Kuali Baba

  2 Feb 08, 08:29

  Tesing times from Barcelona, Feb 1

  1.  HAMILTON      McLaren      1m22.263s
  2.  ALONSO        Renault      1h22.889s
  3.  KUBICA        BMW          1m22.983s
  4.  FISICHELLA    Force India  1m23.015s
  5.  HEIDFELD      BMW          1m23.270s
  6.  PAFFETT       McLaren      1m23.349s
  7.  PIQUET        Renault      1h23.367s
  8.  VETTEL        Toro Rosso   1m23.387s
  9.  ROSBERG       Williams     1m23.453s
  10. COULTHARD     Red Bull     1m23.491s
  11. WEBBER        Red Bull     1m23.547s
  12. BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso   1m23.836s
  13. NAKAJIMA      Williams     1m23.955s
  14. BARRICHELLO   Honda        1m24.125s
  15. WURZ          Honda        1m26.975s

• Kuali Baba

  3 Feb 08, 06:18

  The Toro Rossos set their times on low fuel runs.

  Testing times from Barcelona (February 2)

  1.  VETTEL        Toro Rosso  1m21.679s

  2.  BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso  1m21.782s

  3.  HAMILTON      McLaren     1m22.135s

  4.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren     1m22.511s

  5.  KUBICA        BMW         1m22.833s

  6.  ALONSO        Renault     1m22.938s

  7.  PIQUET        Renault     1m23.002s

  8.  HEIDFELD      BMW         1m23.014s

  9.  WEBBER        Red Bull    1m23.020s

  10. COULTHARD     Red Bull    1m23.322s

  11. ROSBERG       Williams    1m23.347s

  12. NAKAJIMA      Williams    1m23.948s

  13. BUTTON        Honda       1m23.959s

  14. LIUZZI        Force India 1m24.263s

• Kuali Baba

  4 Feb 08, 09:44

  Testing times from Barcelona (February 3)

  1.  WEBBER        Red Bull    1m22.385s

  2.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren     1m22.422s

  3.  HAMILTON      McLaren     1m22.459s

  4.  KUBICA        BMW         1m22.492s

  5.  ALONSO        Renault     1m22.509s

  6.  HEIDFELD      BMW         1m22.874s

  7.  BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso  1m22.877s

  8.  COULTHARD     Red Bull    1m22.889s

  9.  PIQUET        Renault     1m23.039s

  10. VETTEL        Toro Rosso  1m23.232s

  11. BARRICHELLO   Honda       1m23.795s

  12. SUTIL         Force India 1m23.800s

  13. BUTTON        Honda       1m23.808s

• Kuali Baba

  5 Feb 08, 00:56

  Testing times from Bahrain (February 4)

  1.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari     1m32.079s

  2.  BADOER        Ferrari     1m33.323s

  3.  GLOCK         Toyota      1m33.418s

  4.  KOBAYASHI     Toyota      1m33.856s
  

• 566117

  6 Feb 08, 19:04

  Testing times from Bahrain (February 5)

  1.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari     1m30.595s

  2.  BADOER        Ferrari     1m32.230s

  3.  GLOCK         Toyota      1m32.889s

  4.  TRULLI        Toyota      1m33.379s

• Kuali Baba

  7 Feb 08, 00:58

  Toyota and Ferrari will remain in Bahrain for another test which starts on Saturday.

• Kuali Baba

  7 Feb 08, 12:20

  Testing times from Bahrain (February 6)

  1. RAIKKONEN   Ferrari   1m30.455s

  2. MASSA       Ferrari   1m31.293s

  3. TRULLI      Toyota    1m32.145s

  4. KOBAYASHI   Toyota    1m32.265s

• Kuali Baba

  8 Feb 08, 00:26

  The livery of Force India's challenger, which for the first half of the season will be a revised version of last year's Spyker.

  

• 566117

  10 Feb 08, 15:41

  Testing times from Sakhir (February 9)

  1. RAIKKONEN   Ferrari   1m30.914s

  2. MASSA       Ferrari   1m31.174s

  3. TRULLI      Toyota    1m32.382s

  4. GLOCK       Toyota    1m32.762s

• Kuali Baba

  11 Feb 08, 07:18

  Kimi and Felipe suffered hydraulics and engine problems today, but not before posting the fastest times:

  Testing times from Bahrain:

  1	K. Räikkönen	Ferrari		01:30.015	61
  2	F. Massa	Ferrari		01:30.190	70
  3	J. Trulli	Toyota		01:30.944	91
  4	T. Glock	Toyota		01:31.213	93

• gp3

  11 Feb 08, 16:43

  can I know if Red Bull Racing are coming for the Chingay parade?? any news on that?

• Kuali Baba

  12 Feb 08, 15:03

  Testing times from Sakhir (February 11)
  

  1.  MASSA         Ferrari      1m31.181s

  2.  GLOCK         Toyota       1m13.209s

  3.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari      1m31.329s
  4.  TRULLI        Toyota       1m31.689s

• Kuali Baba

  12 Feb 08, 15:05

  Originally posted by gp3:

  can I know if Red Bull Racing are coming for the Chingay parade?? any news on that?

  I had no idea that the car would be making an appearance, but it says so on the Chingay website.

• Kuali Baba

  13 Feb 08, 00:12

  Testing times from Jerez (February 11)
  

  1.  COULTHARD     Red Bull     1m20.645s

  2.  WEBBER        Red Bull     1m20.798s

  3.  NAKAJIMA      Williams     1m20.831s

  4.  ROSBERG       Williams     1m20.945s

• Kuali Baba

  13 Feb 08, 00:14

  Super Aguri has called off the launch of the SA08 car.

• Kuali Baba

  13 Feb 08, 10:47

  Testing times from Jerez (February 12)

  1.  HAMILTON     McLaren       1m19.102s
  2.  DE LA ROSA   McLaren       1m19.287s
  3.  KUBICA       BMW           1m19.539s
  4.  NAKAJIMA     Williams      1m19.601s
  5.  PIQUET       Renault       1m19.660s
  6.  HEIDFELD     BMW           1m19.958s
  7.  WEBBER       Red Bull      1m20.013s
  8.  ROSBERG      Williams      1m20.029s
  9.  VETTEL       Toro Rosso    1m20.105s
  10. COULTHARD    Red Bull      1m20.176s
  11. BOURDAIS     Toro Rosso    1m20.418s
  12. BARRICHELLO  Honda         1m21.133s
  13. DI GRASSI    Renault       1m21.200s
  14. SATO         Super Aguri   1m21.400s
  15. LIUZZI       Force India   1m21.553s
  16. WURZ         Honda         1m21.950s

• Kuali Baba

  14 Feb 08, 02:32

  Testing times from Jerez (February 13)

  1.  WEBBER        Red Bull    1m18.628s

  2.  ROSBERG       Williams    1m19.091s

  3.  NAKAJIMA      Williams    1m19.215s

  4.  ALONSO        Renault     1m19.710s

  5.  KUBICA        BMW         1m19.829s

  6.  HAMILTON      McLaren     1m19.857s

  7.  COULTHARD     Red Bull    1m19.883s

  8.  VETTEL        Toro Rosso  1m19.889s

  9.  PIQUET        Renault     1m20.014s

  10. KOVALAINEN    McLaren     1m20.152s

  11. HEIDFELD      BMW         1m20.201s

  12. BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso  1m20.536s

  13. BUTTON        Honda       1m21.147s

  14. SATO          Super Aguri 1m21.376s

  15. BARRICHELLO   Honda       1m21.710s

  16. SUTIL         Force India 1m22.244s

• Kuali Baba

  15 Feb 08, 20:12

  Testing times from Jerez (February 14)

  1.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren      1m17.974s

  2.  COULTHARD     Red Bull     1m18.485s

  3.  NAKAJIMA      Williams     1m19.117s

  4.  HAMILTON      McLaren      1m19.429s

  5.  KUBICA        BMW          1m19.535s

  6.  VETTEL        Toro Rosso   1m19.688s

  7.  PIQUET        Renault      1m19.817s

  8.  BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso   1m19.848s

  9.  HEIDFELD      BMW          1m19.934s

  10. WEBBER        Red Bull     1m19.980s

  11. FISICHELLA    Force India  1m20.669s

  12. BUTTON        Honda        1m20.988s

  13. DAVIDSON      Super Aguri  1m21.010s

  14. HULKENBERG    Williams     1m21.116s

  15. DI GRASSI     Renault      1m21.286s

  16. WURZ          Honda        1m21.605s
  

• Kuali Baba

  20 Feb 08, 23:14

  It rained in both Barcelona and Valencia. BMW are the only team using the latter circuit this week.

  Ferrari and McLaren will be at the Catalan track today.

  Testing times from Barcelona (February 19)

  1.  ROSBERG       Williams    1m30.675s

  2.  NAKAJIMA      Williams    1m32.370s

  3.  WEBBER        Red Bull    1m32.599s

  4.  ALONSO        Renault     1m32.820s

  5.  COULTHARD     Red Bull    1m32.924s

  6.  TRULLI        Toyota      1m33.283s

  7.  PIQUET        Renault     1m40.073s

  8.  KOBAYASHI     Toyota      no time

• Kuali Baba

  21 Feb 08, 07:53

  Yet another wet day in Barcelona, but in Valencia, Kubica completed 121 laps with a best time of 1:12.893, while Heidfeld completed 136 laps with a best laptime of 1:13.542.

  Testing times from Barcelona (February 20)

  1.  MASSA        Ferrari    1m30.673s
  2.  WEBBER       Red Bull   1m31.213s
  3.  BADOER       Ferrari    1m31.288s
  4.  COULTHARD    Red Bull   1m31.654s
  5.  ALONSO       Renault    1h31.731s
  6.  ROSBERG      Williams   1m31.963s
  7.  GLOCK        Toyota     1m32.407s
  8.  TRULLI       Toyota     1m32.571s
  9.  HULKENBERG   Williams   1m33.102s
  10. NAKAJIMA     Williams   no time
  11. PIQUET       Renault    no time

• Kuali Baba

  22 Feb 08, 16:40

  Testing times from Barcelona (February 21)

  1.  NAKAJIMA      Williams    1m22.153s

  2.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren     1m22.185s

  3.  DE LA ROSA    McLaren     1m22.208s

  4.  MASSA         Ferrari     1m22.213s

  5.  ROSBERG       Williams    1m22.248s

  6.  WEBBER        Red Bull    1m22.477s

  7.  COULTHARD     Red Bull    1m22.499s

  8.  BADOER        Ferrari     1m22.535s

  9.  ALONSO        Renault     1m22.657s

  10. GLOCK         Toyota      1m22.901s

  11. PIQUET        Renault     1m23.286s

  12. KOBAYASHI     Toyota      1m24.132s

  13. HULKENBERG    Williams    1m24.222s

   

  Circuito Ricardo Tormo - Spain 21 February 2008

  Pos.	Driver	Team	Tires	Time	Laps
  1	N. Heidfeld	BMW		01:12.258	59
  2	R. Kubica	BMW		01:12.293	70
  3	C. Klien	BMW		01:23.857	32

• Kuali Baba

  23 Feb 08, 14:24

  Massa and Badoer stayed on at Barcelona yesterday and completed 95 (1:20.508) and 75 laps (1:21.808) respectively.