Formula One’s tyre provider Pirelli predicts that the finest technique for as we speak’s Singapore Grand Prix ought to be a one-stopper. However, with various fast automobiles out of place, there are a raft of choices on the desk. F1Technical’s Balázs Szabó analyses the attainable technique choices for Formula 1’s first go to to the Marina Bay Street Circuit since 2019.
The three softest compounds have been chosen for Singapore (for the first time since Austria): the P Zero White exhausting is the C3, the P Zero Yellow medium is the C4, and the P Zero Red gentle is the C5. These compounds have been chosen to match the typical road circuit traits of the Marina Bay monitor, guaranteeing excessive ranges of mechanical grip.
With the lingering uncertainty about the climate situations, it is rather troublesome to foretell the finest technique for as we speak’s Singapore Grand Prix. Rain has been persistent over the complete weekend with extra showers predicted for as we speak. Yesterday’s qualifying session confirmed how lengthy it takes for the monitor to dry out which is a consequence of varied elements.
With qualifying and the race happening after sundown, the solar can not contribute to a sooner course of. The excessive humidity ranges don’t solely present an enormous bodily problem for the drivers and the automobiles, but it surely additionally makes the strategy of drying out slower. Moreover, with the monitor confined by excessive buildings and skyscrapers, the blowing impact of the wind can be restricted.
When it involves the technique, there are a selection of well-known different exterior elements that always complicate the strategists’ work: each race held at Marina Bay has featured at the least one security automobile which might have a big affect on the race end result. Drivers lose an estimated 28 seconds whereas a cease beneath Safety Car situations takes solely 15 seconds and beneath Virtual Safety Car is nearer to twenty seconds.
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Although there hasn’t been an enormous quantity of dry climate working since Friday and even these runs had been sophisticated by stoppages, Pirelli’s information is pointing in direction of a one-stop technique for as we speak’s race.
The Milan-based tyre provider thinks that the finest method may very well be to begin on the P Zero Yellow medium tyres and working them till between laps 22 and 28, earlier than going onto the P Zero White exhausting till the flag.
An various can be to run the P Zero Red gentle for between 18 and 24 laps after the begin, earlier than switching to exhausting. This may very well be the finest means for the drivers ranging from the entrance as the gentle tyre might assist them get off the line completely and preserve their beginning positions. However, selecting this technique possibility would require them to handle their tyres on the opening laps to increase their first stint.
The two-stop technique is just not out of query both, however it’s undoubtedly slower. However, a driver that’s out of place on the beginning grid and might execute overtaking manoeuvres on a monitor that’s recognized for being a circuit the place overtaking is at premium, can selected a two-stopper. It might see these drivers begin on the gentle compound earlier than making the change to the Hard compound on Lap 16 and ending the race on the mediums.
