Niki Lauda says Mercedes is on track for the start of official 2014 testing, despite the huge challenge of the all-new turbo rules.<\/p>\n
Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport reports rumours that world champion team Red Bull’s boss Christian Horner had floated the idea of delaying for a week the start of winter testing late this month.<\/p>\n
“Nothing is being moved,” Mercedes team chairman Lauda insisted.\u00a0 “The plans are going ahead for late January.<\/p>\n
“The task of big for everybody.”<\/p>\n
The report said the German squad is currently testing its new V6 engine, energy recovery technology, gearbox and cooling systems in a hybrid chassis on the test bench.<\/p>\n
Lauda admitted that cooling the 2014 package is one of the greatest challenges.<\/p>\n
“We are constantly learning new things,” he said.\u00a0 “Suddenly you are managing things like water pressure and intercooling.<\/p>\n
“Oil and water must be in a precise temperature window,” added Lauda.\u00a0 “Once you go just a few degrees above a certain limit, everything stops (working).”<\/p>\n
The triple world champion said he sympathises with the customer teams, who unlike the full works teams like Mercedes and Ferrari are unable to do “any comparison testing”.<\/p>\n
“They are doing their cooling (development) only on the basis of information provided by the engine partner,” said Lauda.<\/p>\n
And he thinks Mercedes and Renault, each with three non-works customer teams, have a slight advantage over Ferrari, who are only supplying customer engines to Sauber and Marussia in 2014.<\/p>\n
“Four teams is four sources of information,” said Lauda.\u00a0 “Everyone is having their individual problems, so we can learn faster and respond sooner.”<\/p>\n
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