(Pirelli Motorsport Media)
Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for tomorrow’s Bahrain
night race at the Sakhir circuit where the reigning world champion used a brand
new set of the P-Zero Soft compound tyre.
The double world champion’s fastest
time was a 1m 34.599s as the Mercedes driver finished the session just ahead of
Scuderia Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel who also set his fastest time of 1m 34.668s
using a brand new set of the yellow walled Soft tyre.
All of the drivers in the top ten used the new sets of the
P-Zero yellow walled Soft compound tyre. Pirelli predict that the difference
between the recommended two stop and a possible three stop strategy is 0.6s.
A two stop strategy for the 57 lap race is to start on the
Soft, change to the Soft again on lap 19 before switching to the Medium
compound tyre on lap 38. The best three stop strategy is to start the race on
the Soft compound tyre and stop on lap 15 for another set of the Soft tyres
before stopping again on lap 35 before finishing the race on the Medium
compound tyre from lap 46.
Speaking about today’s track action, Pirelli Motorsport
Director Paul Hembery stated:
‘The performance gap between the medium and the
soft tyre that we saw in qualifying confirms the fact that the soft will be the
best race tyre tomorrow. It’s going to be interesting now to see how Mercedes
and Ferrari use those tyres over longer stints in the race, which opens up many
interesting possibilities.’
© Ben Johnston 2015
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