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FRIDAY TYRE SUMMARY
* Mercedes was fastest in both free practice sessions, using the P Zero Red
soft C3 compound on each occasion. Valtteri Bottas set the fastest lap on
the re-worked Barcelona track (with a new Turn 10) in the morning, while
Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of the day in the afternoon.
* Alpine also performed strongly at Fernando Alonso’s home grand prix,
finishing fourth and fifth in FP2 behind the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
* Conditions were warm and dry throughout the day, with temperatures around
25 degrees centigrade ambient and 40 degrees on track.
* The drivers generally ran the P Zero White hard tyre and P Zero Red soft
tyre in FP1 (with the exception of Ferrari, the only team to use the P Zero
Yellow medium in the morning) before moving onto the medium and the soft in
the afternoon to concentrate on qualifying and race simulations.
* The performance gap between the compounds is as expected on this
well-known track: around 0.8s between soft and medium, and 1.0s between
medium and hard.
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“The tyres performed as we expected throughout free practice today with no
graining or abrasion seen during each of the sessions and a performance gap
between the compounds as anticipated. The surface here in Barcelona is very
different to Portimao a week ago, with more abrasive asphalt that produces
more grip. The new Turn 10 makes life a little bit easier for the tyres
here, especially the rears, as it is more flowing than before. The teams
concentrated on the soft and medium compounds in the afternoon, which are
likely to be the key tyres for the race. This is due to the fact that there
is a bigger performance gap to the hard, and also because there is less time
lost in the pits than there was in Portugal, which encourages shorter
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TOP 3 TIMES
FP1
Bottas 1m18.504s SOFT C3 NEW
Verstappen 1m18.537s SOFT C3 NEW
Hamilton 1m18.627s SOFT C3 USED
FP2
Hamilton 1m18.170s SOFT C3 NEW
Bottas 1m18.309s SOFT C3 NEW
Leclerc 1m18.335s SOFT C3 NEW
BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
FP1
HARD C1 Hamilton 1m19.675s
MEDIUM C2 Leclerc 1m18.996s
SOFT C3 Bottas 1m18.504s
FP2
HARD C1 - -
MEDIUM C2 Bottas 1m18.419s
SOFT C3 Hamilton 1m18.170s
MOST LAPS BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
HARD C1 Leclerc, Ocon 21
MEDIUM C2 Ocon, Raikkonen 23
SOFT C3 Alonso 22
TYRE STATISTICS OF THE DAY
HARD MEDIUM SOFT
Kms driven* 1145 1457 2197
Sets used overall** 20 22 38
* 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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