Strategy guide for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Thanks to the comparatively excessive degradation seen over the first two days of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend, Formula One’s sole tyre provider Pirelli thinks that the two-stop technique may develop into the greatest strategy to full the season-closing race. F1Technical’s Balázs Szabó analyses the attainable methods for as we speak’s 58-lap race at the Yas Marina circuit.

Pirelli has nominated the three softest compounds in the vary for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: C3 as the P Zero White exhausting, C4 as the P Zero Yellow medium and C5 as the P Zero Red mushy.

A one-stopper has been the recipe for a profitable, correctly working technique over the final years at Abu Dhabi, however this weekend appears to interrupt with this custom. The elevated tyre degradation in comparison with final 12 months’s race has created query marks surrounding pre-event simulations.

Pirelli’s chief engineer Simone Berra stated: „The tyre with the highest put on price at Yas Marina is the entrance proper, because of the anti-clockwise format and circuit traits. The entrance axle was the most limiting issue by way of degradation; to handle the graining encountered as we speak (Friday) on the softer compounds, the groups might determine to make use of a mixture of C3 (exhausting) and C4 (medium) compounds on Sunday.”

Pirelli estimates that the two-stop technique will show to be the quickest possibility for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Based on the lengthy runs accomplished on Friday, the two-stop technique, with a median lack of 22 seconds for every tyre change, is projected to be 4 to 5 seconds sooner than the single-stop technique.

Two choices are thought-about the quickest: begin on mediums, change to hards (between lap 16 and 22) full the ultimate stint on both the medium or exhausting compound. Completing the ultimate stint on mushy tyres is much less doubtless, as it’s unlikely to be as aggressive as the different compounds.

The ultimate resolution of the technique won’t solely depend upon the tyre put on and the visitors scenario, but additionally on the drivers’ remaining tyre allocation.

The Milan-based tyre provider thinks that the greatest strategy to execute a one-stop technique could contain a gap stint on the medium compound after which substitute it with the exhausting tyre, with managing the degradation of an extended first stint key. Other choices on a one-stop technique embrace mushy to exhausting and exhausting to mushy, at which level a security automobile would play an vital position in the final result.