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SHOW LIVE FORUM
morning all 
good morning 
checo FTW! he will be outstandind this season and every top team will have him on their wishlist as clear number one! 
Well enjoy your meal everybody! 
been in the pits. Does that mean Mercedes have an issue?
Our answer, from @EliGP: "Despite having completed a shakedown at Silverstone last week and a day of testing on Sunday, it is still very early days for the new car, and spending long hours in the garage is not uncommon with new cars. It happened to most teams at Jerez. Even Red Bull lost an entire morning due to an electrical problem there.
Wisdom in response from @EliGP: Adrian Newey said last week that the hole was there simply for driver cooling. No, we haven't seen anything suspicious yet, but then again, this is F1, so you never know.
In any case, this is what Newey said: "The slot in the nose is simply driver cooling. Traditionally the driver cooling slot is at the front of the nose, but really for styling as much as anything we moved it to where you now see it to break up the aesthetics of the ramp."
Our expert @EliGP says: "The teams can choose which compounds they will use out of 100 sets of tyres allocated per car for testing during the year. Pirelli said the most popular choice for Barcelona has been the medium tyre, with 110 sets selected. The soft compound was the next most popular choice, with 82 sets, followed by 69 sets of hards, and 34 of supersofts.
"In total, Pirelli is bringing a massive 367 sets of tyres to Barcelona. That's 73 more than it took to Jerez."
@EliGP sees this as a good move: "Wurz's experience could be quite valuable for Williams given the team has opted for an inexperienced line-up in Senna and Maldonado, with 26 and 19 GP starts respectively. Wurz has been competing at a very high level since he was 12, when he won the BMX world championship, and has worked with the FIA Institute Academy in preparing young drivers. So the bottom line is that he has plenty of experience Williams's drivers can only benefit from. It certainly won't hurt the team to have him onboard."
@EliGP explains all: "Teams work on the development of the car in general, not on one car in particular. That may mean spending more time in the windtunnel with a model of the car, or working on new parts it can fit when the car runs for the first time. In fact, most teams don't even have a second chassis ready when they start testing with the first new one."
As far as we know, there is no name yet, but we can't wait to hear it. So far we think he has driven Julia, Kate, Kate's Dirty Sister and Luscious Liz.