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Bahrain GP: Pirelli Grand Prix Review

By Courtesy of Pirelli
April 17 2017

 
 Pirelli Bahrain Grand Prix Review
 
Race Winner
 

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.

 

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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