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Monaco GP: Pirelli Thursday Practice Review

By Courtesy of Pirelli
May 26 2017

 
 Pirelli 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.”

 
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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