CAMPEONATO DO MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - 2018 - SEGUNDO AS PREVISÕES DA PIRELLI
Sexta, 30 Março 2018 06:31 | Actualizado em Quinta, 25 Abril 2024 18:07
FERRARI DRIVER SEBASTIAN VETTEL WINS A THRILLING GRAND PRIX HELPED BY PIT STOP STRATEGY FROM SECOND ROW OF THE GRID
ONE-STOPPER FROM ULTRASOFT TO SOFT UTILISED BY THE MAJORITY OF DRIVERS, IN WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS
ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY USED BY RED BULL, STARTING ON THE SUPERSOFT. DANIEL RICCIARDO FINISHES JUST OFF PODIUM DESPITE GRID PENALTY
– Pit stop strategy was central to the outcome of the Australian Grand Prix. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel took advantage of a longer first stint to then make a pit stop under safety car conditions. This put him in first place, in front of Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, who had led from pole and made his own stop in green flag conditions earlier in the race in response to an initial stop from Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. The vast majority of drivers stopped just once, going from ultrasoft to soft, but a different strategy was used by Red Bull, with both drivers starting on supersoft before moving onto soft. Daniel Ricciardo ended up just off the podium in a close finish, despite a grid penalty. Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas and McLaren’s Stoffel Vandoorne also used a different strategy, starting on the ultrasoft and finishing in the points on the supersoft.
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING “There were effectively two halves to this grand prix, before and after the safety car, which helped to decide the outcome thanks to a clever pit strategy from Ferrari. In the end, we saw a very close race to the finish, with the top five places fiercely contested all the way to the final lap. Most drivers opted for a one-stop strategy, with the quite long safety car period mid-race also helping these tactics by minimising wear and degradation. The behaviour of all three compounds – each used as race tyres – was definitely positive. Two cars even finished the race on a one-stop strategy without using the hardest compound available.”
BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
LONGEST STINT OF THE RACE
Ricciardo 1m25.945s Vandoorne 1m26.958s Hamilton 1m27.753s Raikkonen 1m26.373s Bottas 1m27.019s Raikkonen 1m27.982s Hamilton 1m26.444s Ricciardo 1m28.127s Vettel 1m28.245s
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
SOFT Raikkonen 39
SUPERSOFT Bottas, Vandoorne 32
ULTRASOFT Hartley 34
ONE-STOPPER FROM ULTRASOFT TO SOFT UTILISED BY THE MAJORITY OF DRIVERS, IN WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS
ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY USED BY RED BULL, STARTING ON THE SUPERSOFT. DANIEL RICCIARDO FINISHES JUST OFF PODIUM DESPITE GRID PENALTY
– Pit stop strategy was central to the outcome of the Australian Grand Prix. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel took advantage of a longer first stint to then make a pit stop under safety car conditions. This put him in first place, in front of Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, who had led from pole and made his own stop in green flag conditions earlier in the race in response to an initial stop from Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. The vast majority of drivers stopped just once, going from ultrasoft to soft, but a different strategy was used by Red Bull, with both drivers starting on supersoft before moving onto soft. Daniel Ricciardo ended up just off the podium in a close finish, despite a grid penalty. Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas and McLaren’s Stoffel Vandoorne also used a different strategy, starting on the ultrasoft and finishing in the points on the supersoft.
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING “There were effectively two halves to this grand prix, before and after the safety car, which helped to decide the outcome thanks to a clever pit strategy from Ferrari. In the end, we saw a very close race to the finish, with the top five places fiercely contested all the way to the final lap. Most drivers opted for a one-stop strategy, with the quite long safety car period mid-race also helping these tactics by minimising wear and degradation. The behaviour of all three compounds – each used as race tyres – was definitely positive. Two cars even finished the race on a one-stop strategy without using the hardest compound available.”
BEST TIME BY COMPOUND
LONGEST STINT OF THE RACE
Ricciardo 1m25.945s Vandoorne 1m26.958s Hamilton 1m27.753s Raikkonen 1m26.373s Bottas 1m27.019s Raikkonen 1m27.982s Hamilton 1m26.444s Ricciardo 1m28.127s Vettel 1m28.245s
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
SOFT Raikkonen 39
SUPERSOFT Bottas, Vandoorne 32
ULTRASOFT Hartley 34
TRUTHOMETER Sebastian Vettel won the race by using the fastest one-stop strategy as we predicted for ultrasoft starters. We expected the cars to make their sole stop on lap 28; Vettel made his stop on lap 26, seven laps after a stop from former leader Lewis Hamilton.
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