Bojan Vrbnjak
A race that decides between racers and between race cars. That’s what he wants from the new sprint qualifiers Ross Brawn, sports boss of Formula 1. 17 rounds at full throttle without the influence of the control panel. Of course, it will come to the fore here skill and intelligence individual racer - as was the case in his day Michael Schumacher -, but we can be sure that they are engineers have already worked on the best strategy.
V under normal circumstances we will not see stops in the pits. Tire change not prohibited, but given the short distance of the race not particularly tempting, largely devastating for the race result. This makes it certain: Rubber compound, with which the racer starts the sprint race, will be on the race car until the end. “Before the racing weekend, I would say everyone will start on a medium tire mix,”He admitted Mario isola, sports boss Pirelli, which, meanwhile, is no longer so secure. The first and so far the only one trening he left otherwise much open issues, but those few shorter race simulations we saw were very promising. “The wear was not excessive,”He explained Island.
Last year, some racers in the second race in Silverstone stinte vehicles on tires mixture C3 and that longer distance than today’s sprint race. Indicthat someone could succeed on a soft mix as well? Helmut Marko iz Red Bulland is skeptical: "With a soft mixture, that would be a big risk, which is why I can’t imagine it." 60 minutes the training was too short to gain important data for today’s short race. It was interesting to see that they were Red Bull in Mercedes took completely different approaches. While they are red bulls initially tested everything three mixtures on short simulations of five to six rounds, it is Mercedes at the beginning of the training focused on 17 rounds a long race simulation on a medium tire compound. And that’s the distance of a sprint race.
Medium rubber compound she held up well. Smaller creation bubbles on the front right tire did not affect performance. Lap times have remained constant. Comparisons with Verstappen's there is no simulation on a soft mixture. “We were obviously driving with more fuel,”To me Marko. This explains the significantly slower times of the Dutchman. Besides, it is Mercedes simulation of tasks at the beginning, Red Bull so at the end of training. For this reason, it is impossible to draw any conclusions. It will therefore be of greater help second training. Teams will not be allowed to change otherwise settings their race cars, as the rule applies from the start of qualifying Parc-Ferme. Because of this, most teams are likely to pass in the second practice long distance simulations and after them determined the rubber compound for the sprint race. Sunday's race however, it will be in the opinion Pirelli already more common and predictable. S medium and hard mixture one stop is enough.
Red Bull but he has to tremble a bit before both races. Otherwise, the team hopes it will understeer , with which Verstappen suddenly stabbed at qualifications, before higher temperatures in racing rhythm eliminated, but if this is not the case, it will be a matter critical. Because the front wheels are in Siverstone already extremely loaded anyway.
