News Details

Chinese GP: Practice team notes - Pirelli

Temperatures were relatively warm compared to previous years, with track temperatures peaking at 33 degrees during the day and ambient temperatures around 20 degrees. This contributed to the fact that hardly any graining was seen. The warm ambient temperatures helped to keep the tyres within the correct temperature window on the long straights here, which was an important factor. The performance gap between the hard and medium tyres is around 0.7s seconds, while the gap between the medium and the soft is about 1.1 seconds. There's some degradation on the soft tyre as expected, around 0.2 seconds per lap so far. As usual, the circuit was quite green and slippery in the morning but the cars...
Full Story »
6y ago from Pitpass.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Pirelli's Mario Isola Hoping For Another Exciting Race...

Pirelli's Mario Isola hopes the Chinese Grand Prix can be as exciting as...

Photos: Mercedes celebrates 125 Years of Motorsport

< ► > Last weekend, Mercedes-Benz celebrated 125 Years of...
6y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Tombazis: This year's F1 rules have an influence on...

Around this time last year, Nikolas Tombazis was appointed the FIA’s...
6y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Kyle Kirkwood’s surprise lunge on Alex Palou...

Kyle Kirkwood took victory in the inaugural Grand Prix of Arlington on...
22h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Rough and tumble weekend dampens Josef Newgarden’s...

Josef Newgarden came into IndyCar's Arlington GP weekend on a high,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

WRC Rally Scotland brings top tier rallying back to...

The 2027 WRC calendar should have an exciting new event on the calendar:...
18h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

“Just not normal in football” - Kyle Walker on...

Burnley defender Kyle Walker has admitted it is horrific to play against...
2h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Frontrunners Arsenal face intense battle to sign...

According to Calciomercato, AC Milan and Inter Milan are actively...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Using the Everton momentum for Bayer Leverkusen second...

Morning. We're in Champions League action this evening, with the second...
3h ago from Arseblog.com

Sources: Premier League clubs consider move for...

Arsenal youngster Myles Lewis-Skelly is approaching a pivotal moment in...
4h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.