Canadian GP - Tight for time
Montreal, 7 June
Overall, this was a good day for Scuderia Ferrari as the team set about preparations for Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix. A good day at the tricky and treacherous Gilles Villeneuve circuit, especially when pretty much fifty percent of track time is spent in the wet, means one when both your cars get through the three hours without stepping out of line and hitting the walls that are so close to the track. Mission accomplished on that front and partial mission accomplished when it came to ticking off items on the long, very long, job sheet. Constantly striving for performance in this sport means constantly bringing updates to each race and that’s what the Scuderia did, although the rain in the morning meant that a clear picture has yet to emerge on the effectiveness of the new components. It was a similar story with the tyres: as Pirelli continues to fine tune its products, it had brought two extra pairs per driver of a prototype Medium compound, which the Italian company hopes to introduce at the British Grand Prix in a fortnight’s time. But you can’t test slick tyres in the rain, so this was a task for the afternoon, as the prototypes can only be used on the Friday, along with the regular evaluation of the two compounds in use for the rest of the weekend.
A quick look at the breakdown of laps completed shows how little work got done in the morning: in FP 1, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Mass managed a paltry 16 and 13 respectively, while in the afternoon, they got through a dizzying 48 and 43. One can also consider it to have been a good day for the Scuderia, because even if the planned programme was not fully completed, the other teams faced exactly the same weather-induced difficulties. The final icing on the cake – with the usual proviso that lap times mean little on a Friday – was that Fernando ended the day fastest of all, with Felipe sixth. Not only was the single lap pace encouraging, but so too was the performance on the longer runs. Splitting the two Prancing Horse drivers this afternoon were last year’s Canada winner Lewis Hamilton in second place for Mercedes and along with Fernando, the only driver to break the 1m 15s barrier, followed by Romain Grosjean third for Lotus, Mark Webber in the Red Bull and Nico Rosberg in the other Mercedes.
Overall, this was a good day for Scuderia Ferrari as the team set about preparations for Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix. A good day at the tricky and treacherous Gilles Villeneuve circuit, especially when pretty much fifty percent of track time is spent in the wet, means one when both your cars get through the three hours without stepping out of line and hitting the walls that are so close to the track. Mission accomplished on that front and partial mission accomplished when it came to ticking off items on the long, very long, job sheet. Constantly striving for performance in this sport means constantly bringing updates to each race and that’s what the Scuderia did, although the rain in the morning meant that a clear picture has yet to emerge on the effectiveness of the new components. It was a similar story with the tyres: as Pirelli continues to fine tune its products, it had brought two extra pairs per driver of a prototype Medium compound, which the Italian company hopes to introduce at the British Grand Prix in a fortnight’s time. But you can’t test slick tyres in the rain, so this was a task for the afternoon, as the prototypes can only be used on the Friday, along with the regular evaluation of the two compounds in use for the rest of the weekend.
A quick look at the breakdown of laps completed shows how little work got done in the morning: in FP 1, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Mass managed a paltry 16 and 13 respectively, while in the afternoon, they got through a dizzying 48 and 43. One can also consider it to have been a good day for the Scuderia, because even if the planned programme was not fully completed, the other teams faced exactly the same weather-induced difficulties. The final icing on the cake – with the usual proviso that lap times mean little on a Friday – was that Fernando ended the day fastest of all, with Felipe sixth. Not only was the single lap pace encouraging, but so too was the performance on the longer runs. Splitting the two Prancing Horse drivers this afternoon were last year’s Canada winner Lewis Hamilton in second place for Mercedes and along with Fernando, the only driver to break the 1m 15s barrier, followed by Romain Grosjean third for Lotus, Mark Webber in the Red Bull and Nico Rosberg in the other Mercedes.
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