The track in Brazil is newly covered with an asphalt surface, which is why Pirelli warns that in the event of rain, it could be very slippery. Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery said: “In the event of rain, you would pull oil from bitumen, and oil and water you know what it does.
So in short, if it rains we have to be especially careful. The racing line will change drastically, and racers will drive along parts of the track that, for example, they did not follow on Friday. So that's what we knew, oil was coming from the top of the track. "
Finally, many teams complained about tire wear at high temperatures, but Paul believes they will be much better at lower temperatures: “When we went from harder to softer and from softer to softer, we knew what that could do. here it means. But if we look back, the last 10 years have never been as very hot as it was on Fridays in training.
In the first training session, we saw a lot of tire wear, all four of them. It looked like it was going to be a very busy weekend if nothing changed, but already on the second the wear of the front tires was greatly reduced. ”If the track is dry, Paul predicts that the racers will drive most of the race with a medium hard version of the tires.
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