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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM FP1 AND
FP2
* Rain this morning that meant FP1 was declared a wet session. The FP2
session in the afternoon was dry but cool, with ambient temperatures of
around 20 degrees centigrade.
* Red Bull’s Alexander Albon was fastest this morning on the intermediate
tyres, with the track drying up in the closing minutes of FP1 to enable some
limited slick tyre running. However, there were still some damp patches.
* In FP2, the teams sampled all three of the slick tyres available, with
Sebastian Vettel leading a Ferrari one-two on the soft tyre.
* The remainder of the weekend is expected to be dry, meaning that only the
data from FP2 is really relevant. Both practice sessions today ended under a
red flag.
* Low tyre degradation was seen in FP2, pointing at a one-stopper on Sunday.
* On the short Interlagos circuit, the performance gap between the soft and
the medium is around 0.5 seconds up to now, while the gap between the medium
and the hard is a bit bigger: around one second (although data on the hard
tyre is in relatively short supply).
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“The wet morning session was useful to have a look at crossover points
between wets and inters and slicks, while we then got some good dry running
in the afternoon. There is a short and intense lap here, which means that
the gaps are always close. We experienced cool conditions throughout the
day, with ambient temperatures of 20 degrees centigrade and track
temperatures struggling to get past 23 degrees. These conditions clearly
affect tyre behaviour. Nonetheless, the tyres seem to be working very well
so far, with no graining despite the cool weather. In any case, temperatures
are expected to get warmer for the rest of the weekend, which could alter
the picture of tyre behaviour when it comes to performance gaps and
degradation, opening up the door to some different strategies.” |
FREE PRACTICE 1 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER TIME COMPOUND
Albon 1m16.142s INTERMEDIATE USED
Bottas 1m16.693s INTERMEDIATE NEW
Vettel 1m17.041s INTERMEDIATE NEW
FREE PRACTICE 2 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER TIME COMPOUND
Vettel 1m09.217s SOFT C3 NEW
Leclerc 1m09.238s SOFT C3 NEW
Verstappen 1m09.351s SOFT C3 NEW
FP1 - BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
COMPOUND DRIVER TIME
INTERMEDIATE Albon 1m16.142s
WET Leclerc 1m21.259s
FP2 - BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
COMPOUND DRIVER TIME
HARD C1 Bottas 1m10.604s
MEDIUM C2 Vettel 1m09.570s
SOFT C3 Vettel 1m09.217s
MOST LAPS BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
HARD C1 Raikkonen 19
MEDIUM C2 Leclerc 27
SOFT C3 Magnussen, Norris 27
INTERMEDIATE Giovinazzi 16
WET Sainz 9
TYRE STATISTICS OF THE DAY
HARD MEDIUM SOFT INTERMEDIATE WET
Kms driven* 275 1042 1598 603 258
Sets used overall** 5 17 28 18 19
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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