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FRIDAY TYRE SUMMARY
* Red Bull driver Max Verstappen headed both free practice sessions today,
topping the times in FP2 with the P Zero Red soft tyre. The second free
practice session was run after dark in conditions that were close to those
we might expect for qualifying and the race, with 29 degrees of ambient
temperature and 33 on track.
* The opening free practice session was run in much hotter conditions, with
track temperatures peaking at 54 degrees centigrade.
* With both Friday free practice sessions each reduced to one hour from this
year (compared to 90 minutes last year) the teams had one hour less of
running in total. This condensed their programmes, with plenty of action
from start to finish and less time than before to set a flying lap time.
* From the data seen so far, the performance gap between the White hard and
Yellow medium tyre is 0.4 seconds per lap, while the gap between medium and
soft is around 0.9 seconds per lap.
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“We saw two busy, exciting and very closely-matched sessions, with three
teams in the top three places after each practice hour. From the perspective
of the tyres, we’re satisfied with the performance, which is very much what
we expected with plenty of recent testing in Bahrain. Teams focussed their
work on the C4 soft tyre in particular, having already collected a lot of
data on the C2 and C3 compounds two weeks ago during testing. The
performance gap between medium and soft is a little higher here than we
initially thought, while C2 and C3 are very close. This means that all the
tyres can play a key role in the race.” |
TOP 3 TIMES
FP1
Verstappen 1m31.394s SOFT C4 NEW
Bottas 1m31.692s SOFT C4 NEW
Norris 1m31.897s SOFT C4 NEW
FP2
Verstappen 1m30.847s SOFT C4 NEW
Norris 1m30.942s SOFT C4 NEW
Hamilton 1m31.082s SOFT C4 NEW
BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
FP1
HARD C2 Norris 1m33.361s
MEDIUM C3 Giovinazzi 1m34.025s
SOFT C4 Verstappen 1m31.394s
FP2
HARD C2 Giovinazzi 1m31.449s
MEDIUM C3 Hamilton 1m31.261s
SOFT C4 Verstappen 1m30.847s
MOST LAPS BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
HARD C2 Giovinazzi 22
MEDIUM C3 Alonso, Latifi 21
SOFT C4 Ocon 20
TYRE STATISTICS OF THE DAY
HARD MEDIUM SOFT
Kms driven* 687 1596 2272
Sets used overall** 10 20 50
The above number gives the total amount of kilometres
driven in FP1 and FP2 today, all drivers combined.
** Per compound, all drivers combined.
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