Bahrain GP: Pirelli Grand Prix Review
By Courtesy of Pirelli
April 17 2017
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Pirelli Bahrain Grand Prix
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Ferrari’s
Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix with a two-stop strategy, from
the second row of the grid. All the drivers apart from Sauber’s Pascal
Wehrlein stopped twice, while his team mate Marcus Ericsson was the only
driver to begin the race on the soft tyre. In the warm conditions of the
evening, degradation was contained on both compounds, enabling the drivers
to push hard throughout every stint.
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“Strategy was at the heart of this race, which was influenced also by an
early safety car. In any case, a two-stop strategy was clearly the way
forward in these conditions, but we saw different variations of this
strategy, depending on the order in which the drivers used the supersoft and
soft. Cooler conditions compared to previous days resulted in lower
degradation for the supersoft and very good consistency for the soft”.
TRUTHOMETER
Sebastian Vettel won the race with a two-stop strategy, as expected
(depending on levels of degradation on the supersoft). The degradation level
turned out to be medium, which meant that a two stop strategy with two
initial stints on supersoft of 19 laps each, followed by a final run on the
soft to the flag, was theoretically fastest (the arrival of the safety car
caused many drivers to bring forward their first pit stops, to lap 13). This
was the strategy adopted by both Vettel and Bottas, with Vettel stopping on
laps 10 and 33. |
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BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
MEDIUM SOFT SUPERSOFT
- Hamilton 1m:32.798 Ricciardo 1m:33.495
- Raikkonen 1m 33.720s Vettel 1m 34.503s
- Vettel 1m 33.826s Bottas 1m 34.942s
LONGEST STINT OF THE RACE
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
SOFT Wehrlein 45
SUPERSOFT Ocon 26
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