Bahrain GP: Pirelli Qualifying Review

By Courtesy of Pirelli
April 16 2017

 
 Pirelli Bahrain GP Qualifying Review
 
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The fastest-ever lap of the Bahrain International Circuit was set tonight thanks to Valtteri Bottas’ pole time of 1m28.769s for Mercedes on the supersoft tyre. Conditions remained warm, with track temperatures of 37 degrees centigrade for the evening qualifying session. Bottas was one of three drivers, together with Hamilton and Vettel, to save a set of supersoft tyres by using only one set of soft tyres in Q1.

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING
“Today we saw the fastest-ever lap of Bahrain in qualifying, using the supersoft tyre. Depending on track conditions tomorrow, drivers might opt for a one-stop or a two-stop strategy. There’s still enough of a time difference between the soft and the supersoft tyre to make some variations in strategy possible. As the teams seem very closely matched in terms of race pace, this could well make the difference.”

HOW THE TYRES BEHAVED TODAY
MEDIUM - Not used in qualifying and unlikely to be seen in the race tomorrow.
SOFT - Hamilton, Bottas and Vettel used just one set of soft in Q1.
SUPERSOFT -The predominant qualifying tyre, more than a second faster than the soft.
  
FREE PRACTICE 3 – TOP 3 TIMES
DRIVER 		TIME 		COMPOUND 
Verstappen 	1m 32.194s 	SUPERSOFT NEW
Hamilton	1m 32.304s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Vettel 		1m 32.750s 	SUPERSOFT USED

QUALIFYING TOP 10
DRIVER 	 	TIME 		COMPOUND
Bottas 	 	1m 28.769s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Hamilton 	1m 28.792s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Vettel 	 	1m 29.247s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Ricciardo 	1m 29.545s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Raikkonen 	1m 29.567s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Verstappen 	1m 29.687s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Hulkenberg 	1m 29.842s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Massa 		1m 30.074s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Grosjean 	1m 30.763s	SUPERSOFT NEW
Palmer 		1m 31.074s	SUPERSOFT NEW

MOST LAPS BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND 	DRIVER 			LAPS
MEDIUM 		Ocon, Ricciardo, Stroll 12
SOFT 		Stroll 			26
SUPERSOFT 	Ericsson 		26

BEST TIME BY COMPOUND SO FAR
COMPOUND 	DRIVER 		TIME
MEDIUM 		Hamilton 	1m 36.708s
SOFT 		Hamilton 	1m 30.814s
SUPERSOFT 	Bottas 		1m 28.769s
 
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