Italian GP: Pirelli Friday Practice Review

Wet conditions and low temperatures characterised FP1 at the Italian Grand Prix, before the weather improved for the afternoon FP2 session, in which Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel was fastest on the P Zero Red supersoft tyre. However, there was a lengthy delay following a big accident at the start of FP2, which meant that the drivers had only just over an hour of dry running in total today.
The variety of conditions meant that the entire range of Pirelli tyres available was used today, with the teams able to get an initial read on all the compounds. But with running on the slicks limited only to the afternoon, it’s currently hard to tell exactly what the representative wear and degradation rates – and so the performance gaps between the compounds – will be.

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“From the point of view of data collection, it wasn’t an easy day, as there was really only an hour or so of dry running without interruptions. This means that the teams had to adjust their strategies and compress their programmes in order to maximise that period of time, especially because conditions are expected to be quite uncertain for the rest of the weekend. On FP1, the Teams were able to work on the crossover point between wet and slick tyres, while on FP2 they do some long runs, despite the red flag period, and to understand the gap between the compounds”.

FREE PRACTICE 1 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER 		TIME 	  COMPOUND
Perez 		1m34.000s INTERMEDIATE USED
Raikkonen	1m34.550s INTERMEDIATE USED
Ocon 		1m34.593s INTERMEDIATE USED

FREE PRACTICE 2 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER 		TIME 	  COMPOUND
Vettel 		1m21.105s SUPERSOFT NEW
Raikkonen	1m21.375s SUPERSOFT NEW
Hamilton 	1m21.392s SUPERSOFT NEW

FP1 - BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
COMPOUND 	DRIVER 	  TIME
INTERMEDIATE 	Perez 	  1m31.000s
WET 		Vettel 	  1m37.867s

FP2 - BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
COMPOUND 	DRIVER 	  TIME
SUPERSOFT 	Vettel 	  1m21.105s
SOFT 		Raikkonen 1m21.873s
MEDIUM 		Sirotkin  1m24.217s

MOST LAPS BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND 	DRIVER 	  	   LAPS
SUPERSOFT 	Gasly 	  	   22
SOFT 		Sainz 	  	   28
MEDIUM 		Sirotkin  	   13
INTERMEDIATE 	Raikkonen 	   25
WET 		Hulkenberg, Vettel 4

TYRE STATISTICS OF THE DAY
		    MEDIUM SOFT	SUPERSOFT  INTER   WET
Kms driven* 	    139    1425 1581 	   1338    156
Sets used overall** 3 	   16 	20 	   19      17

* The above number gives the total amount of kilometres
driven in FP1 and FP2 today, all drivers combined.
** Per compound, all drivers combined.