News Details

Perez struggling to understand lack of pace on soft tyre

Sergio Perez was at a loss to explain why Pirelli's soft tyre failed to produce any lap time gains on Friday at Portimão, where the Red Bull driver concluded his day well adrift from teammate Max Verstappen. Perez felt his pace on the medium tyre was good but the switch to the red-walled soft compound that will be used in qualifying was of little benefit and left the Mexican over half a second behind Verstappen who also had a grip with Pirelli's softs. "Today we had very similar track surface conditions to last year with limited grip on the new tarmac so it’s really hard to get the tyres to work," Perez said after Friday's running. "It’s not easy so the main focus is to...
Full Story »
5y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Perez puzzled by lack of pace on soft tyre

Article To news overview © Honda Red Bull's Sergio Perez has said that...
5y ago from RacingNews365.com

'There will be quite a lot of work for us to do to...

AlphaTauri's Eddolls thinks there is a lot of work to be done overnight to...

FP1 Report: Bottas tops the session, Verstappen P2...

Valtteri Bottas and Mercedes have laid an early marker in the Portuguese...
5y ago from GPBlog.com

FP2 Report: Lewis Hamilton tops his first practice...

Lewis Hamilton has topped his first practice session of the season. The...
5y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Tech3 agrees multi-year contract with KTM from 2027...

Tech3 has confirmed that KTM will remain its manufacturer of choice from...
31m ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Pedro Acosta clinches first pole of 2026 in Barcelona...

Pedro Acosta claims a sensational pole in MotoGP qualifying as...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Scott McLaughlin cranks up the speed with 232 MPH run...

The fourth Indianapolis 500 practice day at the Indianapolis Motor...
11h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

David Malukas absorbing wealth of information from...

David Malukas feels he is in prime position to claim his first...
15h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Better than Zubimendi? Arsenal urged to get this...

Arsenal have been advised to seal the transfer of West Ham United...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Do people actually hate Arsenal? Yes, they do. The...

el Arteta’s side will be deeply unpopular champions, but this probably...
3h ago from TheGuardian.com

Bargain: Liverpool transfer target available for 25m...

Denzel Dumfries is reportedly set to have a 25m release clause in his...
4h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Serendipity

In 2014 an American man with an Irish name was driving around Ireland....
3h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.