3/16/2023 0 Comments Baku f1 2021“This certainly one of the most disrupted and unpredictable qualifying sessions that we can remember! The drivers generally used the soft tyre throughout the session, as with the margins so close on this long lap, it was the safest option to be sure of getting through Q2: especially with the big risk of interruptions. Mario Isola: Pirelli Head of F1 and Motorsport Having peaked at more than 55 degrees in free practice this morning, track temperatures in the afternoon were slightly cooler – at around 46 degrees halfway through the session, with 29 degrees ambient.All the drivers used the soft tyre from Q1 to Q3, with the exception of Mercedes, which chose the medium for the first runs in Q1.In total, qualifying took place over nearly an hour and a half. A third red flag brought Q2 to an early close as well, followed by a fourth one in Q3. The opening Q1 session was characterised by two red flag periods for separate incidents at the tricky Turn 15.2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Notes From Qualifying Unlike Monaco though, track position isn’t absolutely everything here: it’s very possible to overtake. If there’s a safety car period this gives the opportunity for a ‘free’ pit stop, so starting on the softer and faster tyre could be advantageous. On the other hand, there’s a big probability of the safety car, as all the red flag stoppages in qualifying showed. If those are the tyres being used, it makes sense to start on medium and then move to hard: there’s quite a wide pit stop window that leaves plenty of latitude for the timing of the pit stop and the pit lane penalty here isn’t huge either. Those obliged to start on the P Zero Red soft tyre – in other words, the top 10 – are likely to use a soft-hard strategy, even though this gives much less flexibility in the pit stop window.Īnother good option – which can be used by those outside the top 10 – is to use the P Zero Yellow medium and P Zero White hard compounds: especially if we experience track temperatures in excess of 50 degrees.
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