Пирели за петък


Пол Хембри:
Unlike the last grand prix in India, we don’t have a full step between the two compounds in Abu Dhabi. From what we can gather up to now, there is between 0.4s to 0.8s difference in performance between the soft and the medium tyres here, which was the improvement that Vettel made on the soft tyres compared to the medium on his initial runs. Durability is very good on both compounds, with low degradation, and, just as was the case last year, we can all easily see how all the teams have understood how to get the very most out of our tyres as their knowledge and data bank has increased towards the end of the season. As a result, we may even see some drivers trying one pit stop here during the race whereas last year two stops was Hamilton’s winning strategy – who has been very quick in every session so far as well. With a high degree of track evolution, we don’t believe we’ve seen the full picture at Yas Marina yet.