Technique tutorial for the Singapore Grand Prix

F1 Grand Prix, GP Singapore, Marina Bay Avenue Circuit

System One’s tyre provider Pirelli predicts that the finest system for today’s Singapore Grand Prix must be a a person-stopper. Nevertheless, with a amount of brief automobiles out of situation, there are a raft of alternatives on the desk. F1Technical’s Balázs Szabó analyses the doable system alternatives for System 1’s 1st go to to the Marina Bay Avenue Circuit because 2019.

The 3 softest compounds have been picked for Singapore (for the 1st time because Austria): the P Zero White tricky is the C3, the P Zero Yellow medium is the C4, and the P Zero Crimson tender is the C5. These compounds have been picked to match the usual avenue circuit features of the Marina Bay observe, guaranteeing higher stages of mechanical grip.

With the lingering uncertainty about the temperature problems, it is really challenging to forecast the finest system for today’s Singapore Grand Prix. Rain has been persistent more than the entire weekend with far more showers predicted for nowadays. Yesterday’s qualifying session confirmed how lengthy it will take for the observe to dry out which is a consequence of different aspects.

With qualifying and the race having spot just after sunset, the sunshine are unable to lead to a speedier course of action. The higher humidity stages do not only offer a huge bodily obstacle for the motorists and the automobiles, but it also will make the course of action of drying out slower. Also, with the observe confined by higher properties and skyscrapers, the blowing influence of the wind is also limited.

When it will come to the system, there are a amount of nicely-regarded other exterior aspects that usually complicate the strategists’ operate: every single race held at Marina Bay has highlighted at minimum a person security automobile which can have a important affect on the race consequence. Motorists shed an approximated 28 seconds although a cease beneath Protection Auto problems will take only fifteen seconds and beneath Digital Protection Auto is nearer to twenty seconds.

Even though there has not been a substantial sum of dry temperature managing because Friday and even individuals operates had been sophisticated by stoppages, Pirelli’s knowledge is pointing in the direction of a a person-cease system for present-day race.

The Milan-based mostly tyre provider thinks that the finest technique could be to get started on the P Zero Yellow medium tyres and managing them till involving laps 22 and 28, just before heading on to the P Zero White tricky till the flag.

An substitute would be to operate the P Zero Crimson tender for involving eighteen and 24 laps just after the get started, just before switching to tricky. This could be the finest way for the motorists beginning from the entrance as the tender tyre could support them get off the line flawlessly and manage their beginning positions. Nevertheless, deciding upon this system alternative would need them to take care of their tyres on the opening laps to lengthen their 1st stint.

The two-cease system is not out of problem possibly, but it is surely slower. Nevertheless, a driver that is out of situation on the beginning grid and can execute overtaking manoeuvres on a observe that is regarded for becoming a circuit wherever overtaking is at high quality, can selected a two-stopper. It could see these motorists get started on the tender compound just before generating the swap to the Difficult compound on Lap sixteen and ending the race on the mediums.