Hot on the heels of their second win of the 12 months, Ferrari have carried on with on-track working on Tuesday and Wednesday, finishing a two-day test for Formula One’s sole tyre producer Pirelli.
The Scuderia took a managed victory ultimately Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix with Charles Leclerc dominating observe classes, qualifying and the race. His team-mate Carlos Sainz seemed to wrestle throughout the observe classes, however he managed to up his tempo come qualifying to take third on the grid which he might preserve in the race.
The two drivers didn’t relaxation after the Monte Carlo spherical with the following race going down in Montreal subsequent weekend as they headed to the Le Castellet circuit that’s comparatively near Monaco.
Ferrari’s goal was to hold out a two-day test with Pirelli, helping the Milan-based tyre producer to its future growth.
The first day noticed Sainz drive Ferrari’s 2024 F1 automobile, the SF-24 on the circuit that has served as a favoured test observe in latest a long time, but in addition hosted the French Grand Prix in latest years earlier than the race was dropped from the schedule. The Spaniard examined completely different compounds that Pirelli intends to introduce for subsequent 12 months.
Wednesday’s working noticed Leclerc take it to the observe, utilizing the three.523km configuration of the multi-purpose circuit. Despite good climate situations, the observe was artificially watered with the circuit’s irrigation system to breed as precisely as potential the situations required to run on moist and intermediate tyres.
This test adopted a sequence of runs Pirelli has performed to date this 12 months with Barcelona, Jerez de la Frontera and Suzuka having staged in-season tyre growth testing.
No relaxation for the depraved 💪
Two days of @pirellisport testing in Paul Ricard full with @Carlossainz55 on observe yesterday and @Charles_Leclerc taking up driving duties as we speak ✅ pic.twitter.com/h9eBsgskzD
— Scuderia Ferrari HP (@ScuderiaFerrari) May 29, 2024
