Valtteri back on track in #abudhabi for season-ending Pirelli tyre testing
Date: Tuesday 27 November 2018
Driver: Valtteri Bottas
Circuit: Yas Marina Circuit
Circuit Length: 5.554 km
Laps Completed: 120
Distance Covered: 666.480 km
Best Lap Time: 1:37.231
Valtteri completed 120 laps of the Yas Marina Circuit on Tuesday at the wheel of the championship winning Mercedes-AMG #F1 W09 EQ Power+. The team returned to the venue of last weekend’s #abudhabi Grand Prix, testing Pirelli’s new range of tyres for 2019.
The Finn set the second fastest time of the day, a 1:37.231, on the HyperSoft tyre
He completed 120 untroubled laps of the Yas Marina Circuit (666.480 km)
The main focus of the day was collecting data on the 2019 tyre compounds
Valtteri Bottas
Overall, a good day of testing here in #abudhabi. We completed our programme without any issues and we were able to do some long and short runs on a mix of the new Pirelli compounds. We can see some differences to this year’s tyres but we have all winter to work on understanding the new tyres from all the knowledge we are gaining from this #test. I’m sure Pirelli will learn a lot from these two days of testing as well. We’ll be back on track tomorrow for the final time this year.
Andrew Shovlin
Today was about gathering data on the 2019 tyres and understanding how they differ to the 2018 tyres we’ve used this year. We’ll continue our programme with Valtteri tomorrow with more of a focus on the performance and degradation of each of the compounds. This work is important as we need to select tyres for the early races based on the information we find at this #test. It was a good day of running and the car ran without any issues.
Position
Driver
Team
Laps Completed
Best Lap Time
1
Sebastian Vettel (5)
Ferrari
67
1:36.812
2
Valtteri Bottas (77)
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
120
1:37.231
3
Lance Stroll (18)
Force India
56
1:37.415
4
Max Verstappen (33)
Red Bull
131
1:37.947
5
Sergio Perez (11)
Force India
67
1:37.976
6
Lando Norris (47)
McLaren
135
1:38.187
7
Nico Hülkenberg (27)
Renault
128
1:38.789
8
Pietro Fittipaldi (51)
Haas
54
1:39.201
9
Robert Kubica (40)
Williams
32
1:39.269
10
George Russell (63)
Williams
42
1:39.512
11
Kimi Räikkönen (7)
Sauber
102
1:39.878
12
Sean Gelael (38)
Toro Rosso
150
1:40.435
