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FRIDAY TYRE SUMMARY
* With just 20 minutes run of FP1 (following delays in recovering Sebastian
Vettel’s stricken Aston Martin) FP2 was the crucial session today, run at
exactly the same time as qualifying and the race (15:00). Ferrari’s Charles
Leclerc went quickest in the session ahead of his team mate Carlos Sainz,
with both cars using the P Zero Red soft C3 tyre to set their best times.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton topped the times in the short morning FP1
session.
* With Zandvoort returning to Formula 1 for the first time since 1985, the
emphasis today was very much on learning the track and how the three hardest
tyre compounds in the Pirelli range – selected for this weekend – interact
with it.
* The afternoon FP2 session got underway in 25 degrees centigrade ambient
and 30 degrees on track, with sunny weather. This session was also
interrupted by two red flags, albeit for less than 15 minutes in total this
time.
* As expected, the brand new track was quite ‘green’ all day before any
rubber was laid down, with sand and gravel also pulled onto the track.
* The limited running today meant that the information about the tyre gaps
is really only based on FP2. Between soft C3 and medium C2 there is a gap so
far of 0.7 seconds, higher than an our initial estimation, while the gap
between medium C2 and hard C1 is 0.6 seconds, based on our pre-event
simulation (with not enough information available from the session).
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“There was at least one red flag during every session today – including
Formula 3 free practice and qualifying – which obviously limited all the
running and made it harder to draw any firm conclusions. It was also quite a
dirty track, with sand and gravel on the surface. However, the teams still
managed to obtain some of the data that they needed on this unique and
unforgiving new track – and this was useful preparation, as safety cars and
red flags seem likely to be a possibility during the race as well. More work
and information is needed tomorrow though in order to get a clearer idea of
the optimal strategy. We managed to get a good idea of the gap between
medium and soft today, while we do not yet have enough data to accurately
predict the gap between medium and hard. Despite the impressive banking at
Zandvoort, the tyres are exactly the same as we bring to the other races,
with the latest structure introduced from Silverstone designed to cope with
even the heaviest loads.” |
TOP 3 TIMES
FP1
Hamilton 1m11.500s SOFT C3 NEW
Verstappen 1m11.597s SOFT C3 NEW
Sainz 1m11.601s SOFT C3 NEW
FP2
Leclerc 1m10.902s SOFT C3 NEW
Sainz 1m11.056s SOFT C3 NEW
Ocon 1m11.074s SOFT C3 NEW
BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
FP1
HARD C1 Verstappen 1m12.755s
MEDIUM C2 Norris 1m12.679s
SOFT C3 Hamilton 1m11.500s
FP2
HARD C1 Gasly 1m12.831s
MEDIUM C2 Bottas 1m11.664s
SOFT C3 Leclerc 1m10.902s
MOST LAPS BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
HARD C1 Latifi 16
MEDIUM C2 Ocon 24
SOFT C3 Alonso, Bottas, Verstappen 20
TYRE STATISTICS OF THE DAY
HARD MEDIUM SOFT
Kms driven* 864 1235 1575
Sets used overall** 18 22 37
* 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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