The McLaren riders did not elaborate on why they had to shorten the second practice, but both think this is even better, as they have saved some sets of tires for difficult weather conditions. Such tires could come in handy, as the weather forecast for Sunday does not rule out more rain.
Daniel Riccardo (17th): “We just didn’t want to waste too much energy today! (laughs) Seriously, we did a good part of the program, but in the end we had a small technical problem that cut the second session short.
Still, I don’t think we would have done much more laps because we’ve gathered enough information already. Much depends of course on the weather on Sunday. If it’s like today, wet tires will still be useful to us, so maybe it wasn’t worth it to keep working on the track. Maybe at least we wouldn’t leave the pits again.
It is difficult to predict exactly what conditions will be on Sunday. It is more likely that it will be dry tomorrow, so you have to start everything from scratch. It turns out that we will have the only practice on a dry track, after which the qualifying will take place, but I like this scenario.
Some rain is expected for Sunday, albeit perhaps in the late afternoon. But if it starts raining an hour earlier, then the race won’t be over by then, so I’m not going to make any predictions for Grand Prix day. But I dare to say that it will still be dry tomorrow. But even under such conditions as today it was great to fly on this track, I really enjoyed it.
Lando Norris (16th): “Since there is a good chance of rain on Sunday, we didn’t want to use too many sets of wet tires today, especially as we saw that she lost speed after just one lap.
But we prepared well for Sunday, discovered the behavior of both intermediate rubber and heavy rain tires, and if we kept working on the track we would have to spend a few more sets, and we didn’t want to do that. Better save them for the race.
Obviously this track is nothing like the Singaporean one, it has different characteristics, configuration and different speeds here. It is difficult to draw conclusions about our pace as we have only worked in rainy conditions so far. If the track had been dry, the picture would probably have been different. But today we had many difficulties.
In addition, there were different types of problems, but one of them in particular stood out, and if we manage to solve it, we will try to add it.
Source: F1 News
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