Monaco GP: Pirelli Thursday Practice Review
By Courtesy of Pirelli
May 26 2017
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Monaco GP Thursday Practice Review |
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The fastest lap
in the 75-year history of the Monaco Grand Prix was established during FP2
this afternoon, courtesy of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel who set a best
time of 1m12.720s, beating Daniel Ricciardo’s previous benchmark of
1m13.622s.
As expected, the ultrasoft proved to be around 0.7 seconds faster than the
supersoft. With degradation practically zero, the purple tyre is anticipated
to be the favoured tyre for both qualifying and the race. The unusual
timetable in Monaco, featuring free practice on Thursday, no running on
Friday, and the track open to public traffic overnight, means that the
normal pattern of track evolution is affected, with very little rubber laid
down.
To extract the maximum from the tyres, many drivers did a preparation lap
before their flying lap: with managing traffic being the other key factor
behind a quick time.
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“Monaco is not a circuit that generally holds many surprises: we saw very
limited running on the soft and the majority of action on the ultrasoft,
exactly as we expected. Even this compound is on the hard spectrum for the
very specific low-grip conditions of Monaco: ideally we would bring
specialised compounds for this event, even softer than the current
ultrasoft. Nonetheless, we already saw the fastest-ever lap of Monaco even
in FP1, which subsequently became even faster in FP2. Some drivers who want
to do something different in qualifying might choose to run the supersoft in
Q2 on Saturday: in the event of an early safety car, this is a gamble that
could pay off.” |
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FREE PRACTICE 1 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER TIME COMPOUND
Hamilton 1m 13.425s ULTRASOFT NEW
Vettel 1m 13.621s ULTRASOFT NEW
Verstappen 1m 13.771s ULTRASOFT NEW
FREE PRACTICE 2 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER TIME COMPOUND
Vettel 1m 12.720s ULTRASOFT NEW
Ricciardo 1m 13.207s ULTRASOFT NEW
Raikkonen 1m 13.283s ULTRASOFT NEW
FP1 - BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
COMPOUND DRIVER TIME
SOFT Button 1m 18.063s
SUPERSOFT Kvyat 1m 14.111s
ULTRASOFT Hamilton 1m 13.425s
FP2 - BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
COMPOUND DRIVER TIME
SOFT - -
SUPERSOFT Vettel 1m 13.573s
ULTRASOFT Vettel 1m 12.720s
MOST LAPS BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
SOFT Button 17
SUPERSOFT Raikkonen 28
ULTRASOFT Massa 34
TYRE STATISTICS OF THE DAY
SOFT SUPER SOFT ULTRA SOFT
Kms driven* 80 977 3719
Sets used overall** 7 17 60
* 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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