2017 pre-season testing day two in pictures

18 comments on “2017 pre-season testing day two in pictures”

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   nelson piquet
   28th February 2017, 8:38

   i already love this cars, best looking cars since 1997 in my opinion
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      AndrewT (@andrewt)
      28th February 2017, 16:38

      they don’t look bad indeed, however, if they can produce quality 2 hours on sunday afternoons, I wouldn’t really care how they look or sound
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         Shipmonster
         28th February 2017, 19:57

         I agree! They look great but all I care about is quality racing on a Sunday.
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         Ashwin (@redbullf1)
         28th February 2017, 20:24

         +1

         @andrewt
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         John H (@john-h)
         28th February 2017, 22:26

         100% disagree. If racing is your priority, then they’re are plenty of other series with much better racing than F1.

         Racing is important, but so is how these things ‘feel’, and these wider cars start to make you fall in love with F1 again.
2. 

   anon
   28th February 2017, 9:00

   What are those grill like things attached to the cars called again?
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      Dan83
      28th February 2017, 11:17

      Wondering this too…
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         Matt
         28th February 2017, 12:10

         They’re airflow/speed sensors
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      adam
      28th February 2017, 11:51

      rake sensors
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      Tomas Andersson (@celebmir)
      28th February 2017, 12:20

      I think they are referred to as “rakes”
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      Rob
      28th February 2017, 12:32

      They are Pitot tubes for measuring fluid velocity
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      Tristan
      28th February 2017, 22:39

      All are correct really, Kiel probes (a variation of Pitot tubes), which are attached to rakes to measure the airflow.
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   Matt (@hollidog)
   28th February 2017, 9:10

   Has Lance just borrowed Valterri’s old helmet?
4. 

   Jerejj
   28th February 2017, 9:13

   Did anyone else mistake Stroll to Bottas due to the similarities with his and Bottas’s last years helmet? I have to admit that I did when I first saw the thumbnail image.
5. 

   Lancer033 (@lancer033)
   28th February 2017, 12:03

   is that a 2nd wing on Hamilton’s T-wing or do i just need more coffee?
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      toiago (@toiago)
      28th February 2017, 12:18

      Yes it is, @lancer033. They used a double T-wing for a while. Gary Anderson made reference to it in the Autosport’s live feed.
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      The Last Pope (@the-last-pope)
      28th February 2017, 18:06

      And Williams using two separate t-wings. Very ugly, it’s like a coat hanger aerial on a supercar. They just need to be banned asap.
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   sward (@)
   28th February 2017, 19:09

   Oh man, pulled up a picture of Stroll, then my attention was needed elsewhere and then when I came back to the picture my first thought was “why am I looking at an old picture of Bottas?” A few people on twitter were saying how much they were alike and I scoffed at it. Although, I was really looking forward to Stroll with his red, yellow and green helmet.

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