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Long run pace from FP2 in Mexico

  • Published on 27 Oct 2018 02:47
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  • By: Fergal Walsh

Red Bull emerged as the fastest team from Friday practice, topping both sessions on the opening day from Mexico City. The energy drink squad was over one second faster than Mercedes and Ferrari, however, it was Renault who was Red Bull's closest competitor.

But it is expected that Mercedes and Ferrari will pull it back throughout the weekend. The biggest take away from Friday was the lack of stability on the hyper soft tyre which degraded after a short number of laps. Below you can see the long run pace from the top three teams. 

hyper SOFT TYRE
Hamilton  Bottas Vettel Raikkonen Ricciardo Verstappen
1:22.371 1:23.583 1:21.833 1:22.181 1:22.694 1:22.002
1:23.046 1:24.024 1:22.370 1:23.942 1:22.345 1:21.130
1:25.311 1:24.009 1:22.823 1:25.833 1:22.672 1:23.044
1:26.336 1:24.817 1:25.647   1:23.102 1:24.344
  1:24.670 1:27.667   1:23.780 1:23.215
        1:23.463 1:24.310
        1:24.236 1:23.712
        1:24.836  
           
Average Average Average Average Average Average
1:24.255 1:24.221 1:24.068 1:23.985 1:23.391 1:22.965

 

ULTRA SOFT TYRE 
Hamilton  Bottas Vettel Raikkonen Ricciardo Verstappen
  1:22.546     1:22.781 1:21.147
  1:23.483     1:22.534 1:21.440
  1:24.223     1:22.460  
  1:23.468     1:22.806  
  1:24.245     1:23.048  
  1:24.683     1:22.975  
  1:23.956     1:22.763  
  1:24.213     1:22.452  
  1:24.696     1:22.555  
           
           
           
           
           
  Average     Average Average
  1:23.946     1:22.708 1:21.294

 

super SOFT TYRE 
Hamilton  Bottas Vettel Raikkonen Ricciardo Verstappen
1:23.066   1:23.062 1:22.122    
1:22.426   1:23.928 1:22.640    
1:22.765   1:22.945 1:23.223    
1:22.598   1:22.885 1:23.146    
1:22.946   1:22.946 1:23.423    
1:22.612  

1:22:508

 1:23.136    
1:22.672   1:21:852 1:23.439    
1:23.334   1:22.503 1:23.838    
    1:22.771 1:23.386    
    1:22.458 1:23.247    
    1:22.560 1:23.693    
    1:22.765 1:23.604    
      1:23.499    
     

1:23.975

    
Average   Average Average    
1:22.802   1:22.765 1:23.311    
F1 News Max Verstappen Valtteri Bottas Daniel Ricciardo Lewis Hamilton Sebastian Vettel Kimi Räikkönen

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  • boudy

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    Love these stats. They give you much better understanding what is happening. Looks like the Redbull and Ferrari could be ahead of Mercedes.

    • + 1
    • Oct 27 2018 - 06:52

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