Testing resumes in Bahrain on Wednesday with the complete Pirelli vary, although solely Cadillac is taking benefit.
System 1 vehicles return to the Sakhir monitor on Wednesday for the second pre-season testing session in Bahrain. Groups will as soon as once more have three days to check their vehicles earlier than the beginning of the championship.
Whereas solely the three hardest compounds within the Pirelli vary had been out there final week, for the subsequent three days, groups are capable of choose 24 units from all 5 dry-weather choices. Moreover, groups are permitted to hold over units used for not more than 9 laps through the earlier week.
The 2 most requested compounds are the C3 and C2, chosen by ten out of the eleven groups. Solely Mercedes are sticking solely to the three hardest choices, whereas McLaren, Ferrari, Racing Bulls, Audi, and Haas have added the C4 to their choice.
Purple Bull, Alpine, Williams, and Aston Martin have opted for softer decisions, the Austrian outfit limiting itself to the C2, C3, and C4, whereas Alpine and Williams have additionally included the C5. Aston Martin is the one group to have chosen strictly the three softest compounds (C3, C4, and C5). Newcomer, Cadillac, has unfold its request throughout all out there choices: it’s the solely group to have not less than one set of each dry compound.
Followers can distinguish the tyres through a particular identification system designed for testing: C1 and C2 with white logos, C3 and C4 with yellow logos and C5 with pink logos.
The 2 compounds sharing the identical color will probably be distinguishable as a result of the tougher of the 2 will function a chequered flag sample on the sidewalls. Subsequently, solely the C2 and C4 will lack this ornament, that includes solely the Pirelli and P Zero logos.
