[retired_shean]

The renault even worse than my worst expectations

It just looks like they had the car in paint, a selection of 4 colours and just randomly used the fill tool :/

Just utterly terrible

[retired_kikiiscwazy]

Heh just looking at McLaren's test schedule:

TESTING
VALENCIA (SHAKEDOWN) - 17th JANUARY
Day 1 - Fernando >>
VALENCIA (EXCLUSIVE) - 24th - 26th JANUARY
Day 1 - Fernando, Lewis & Pedro >>
Day 2 - Fernando & Lewis
Day 3 - Fernando & Lewis
VALENCIA - 30th JANUARY - 1st FEBRUARY
Day 1 - Fernando & Pedro
Day 2 - Fernando & Lewis
Day 3 - Gary & Lewis
JEREZ - 6th - 8th FEBRUARY
Day 1 - Pedro & Lewis
Day 2 - Fernando & Lewis
Day 3 - Fernando & Pedro
BARCELONA - 12th - 14th FEBRUARY
Day 1 - Fernando & Pedro
Day 2 - Fernando & Lewis
Day 3 - Pedro & Lewis
BAHRAIN - 22nd - 24th FEBRUARY
Day 1 - Lewis & Fernando
Day 2 - Lewis & Fernando
Day 3 - Lewis & Fernando
BAHRAIN - 27th - 28th FEBRUARY
Day 1 - Lewis & Fernando
Day 2 - Lewis & Fernando

What is the point of employing Paffett?

[retired_bec8643]

Got to be hampering his career with so little testing.

[retired_kikiiscwazy]

He's going to be racing in the DTM this year as well to be fair.

Though despite winning the series in 2005 he'll be in a year old car this year so that'll be fun for him.

[retired_bec8643]

Yeah but still if he wants to get into F1 properly surely they need to have him doing something with the car.

Unless they are planning some kind of deal with one of the smaller teams next year (maybe Prodrive or whatever its called) so he can be loaned to them for a year to get a proper race drive.

[retired_kikiiscwazy]

That's exactly what I think they're doing, a lot of reports suggesting that he has been promised a Prodrive seat in order not to run off to Honda or something.

[retired_kikiiscwazy]

New 2007 Honda

Again

[San]

In which year did mclaren run an entirely orange car on launch?

I'd guess it was 1997 but feel free to correct me on that.

[retired_kikiiscwazy]

1997 and 2006.

[runronnirun]

Originally posted by Mika:
<BLOCKQUOTE> McLaren kick off Valencia test

The McLaren Mercedes team kick off on Wednesday an exclusive three-day test at the Ricard Tormo circuit in Valencia.

The test, taking place behind closed doors, saw Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Pedro de la Rosa getting back to work following last week's shakedown of the new MP4-22 car.

Alonso, who drove the new car for the first time at Valencia last week, was the fastest of three, posting a best time of 1:12.387 after 67 laps.

The Spanish driver was only in action in the afternoon, while test driver de la Rosa worked only in the morning. Briton Hamilton, slowest today, had a full day of testing, covering 69 laps.

Today's times:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:12.387 67
2. de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:12.718 41
3. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:13.023 69

I'm the only one who cares but sod it </BLOCKQUOTE>

lies :cool: