[Iceman]

Kimi finishes day one on top

[Drew.]

Lewis with brake failure and has already crashed. Will post some photos of the rest of the cars when I get on the computer.

[Iceman]

[Iceman]

Kimi Raikkonen says he is not surprised at the high attrition rate that blighted the first Formula 1 pre-season test day.

The Finn managed to top the timesheets after completing 31 laps in his new Ferrari, on a day when many of his potential title rivals hit trouble.

McLaren failed to run at all, Red Bull only managed three laps at the end of the day and Mercedes had to cut short its running after Lewis Hamilton crashed.

But rather than view the difficult first day of the new turbo cars as something to be worried about, Raikkonen thinks it was to be expected.

"For sure everybody wants to see more laps and we want to do more laps, but it is pretty normal with such a big change," said Raikkonen.

"It will take a little bit of time before we can run 100 per cent all the time and not have issues.

"I think we have started pretty OK."

Raikkonen reckons his day had been more normal than it appeared from the outside, and did not think the new cars were particularly different to drive compared to last year's V8-powered machines.

"I think the biggest challenge is getting all the new stuff working as we want, and working together," he explained.

"It is much trickier than what we are used to, but from the driving side I don't think it is an awful lot different.

"It is just the first day with all new stuff so it takes time to get things up to speed. One day to go, a lot of work to do, we know that.

"But we expected these first test days to learn things, so I really don't feel like it is such a big difference to this year or any previous one."

Hopefully everyone else finds it hard haha

[Drew.]

Thank god the Merc doesn't have a penis shaped nose

Jerez photos

[Iceman]

Drew what is the big pole on the Ferrari?

[Drew.]

Thats a good question i've got no idea, i didn't notice that

[Iceman]

maybe for a camera?

[Iceman]

oh its on the williams too

[Drew.]

Seems a bit too high just for a camera, you could be right though.. i'll have a look and see if i can find out

[Iceman]

Cheers

[Iceman]

[Drew.]

Cant find what it is anywhere, it's been used on cars over the years during testing though.

[Iceman]

Red bull suspend their test after only 28 laps....brilliant

[Drew.]

The 10 fasted laps over the first 3 days of Bahrain testing.

Such a good sight seeing Merc and McLaren up there

[Drew.]

2 weeks to go, Hamilton and Merc on top in testing, Red Bull nowhere to be seen

[Iceman]

Red Bull started bad last year and won the last nine gp's it's gonna be a long ass year....especially with the Abu Dhabi double....

Just a week to go now

[Drew.]

F1 show returns tonight at 8pm on Sky F1

[James]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Drew what is the big pole on the Ferrari?

It measures the wind-speed.

Says more about the things they add to the car in testing here - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112669

[Iceman]

Id love if we did a prediction league and followed through for the whole year...

[Drew.]

Yeah that would be good fun. Hard to think of many users on the forum that watch it weekly though.

[Iceman]

We need to recruit....maybe if an award was involved (hint hint James)

[Iceman]

Also I got rush today and will finally watch it

[Iceman]

And one final thing...that williams car is **** hot...favorite livery this year...hopefully massa can win it

[Drew.]

Originally Posted by Iceman

We need to recruit....maybe if an award was involved (hint hint James)

We'll have to get Novo and BBfanusa involved