Carlos Sainz, Pirelli test in the middle of Spain-Morocco

Carlos Sainz returned to the wheel of the F1-75 at the Fiorano circuit on Tuesday for the first of two days of Ferrari testing with Pirelli rain tires ahead of the 2023 Formula 1 season.

The man from Madrid started rolling around 11 am, taking advantage of the wet asphalt after the night’s rain and the Pirelli technicians improved the work plan according to the conditions. starting to try intermediate tires (green) and then switch to slicks, dry. And then they had to use an automatic irrigation system to wet the asphalt with the desired amount of water for the heavy rain test (blue).

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This Tuesday Carlos was unable to follow Spain’s round of 16 match against Morocco with his teammates, but this did not mean that he took the opportunity between batches to follow the game through an application on his mobile.

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Pirelli aims for next season to achieve quick and easy heating of rain tires and thus be able to use them without being heated by thermal blankets, an advance for a possible change in the regulation for 2024 to eliminate thermal blankets – saving electricity to add to sustainability.

Only half of the 10 F1 teams participated in these tests. Last weekend, Pirelli began the tests at Paul Ricard, with Robert Kubica at the controls of the Alfa Romeo C42, with intermediate and heavy rain tires and after these two days of the turn of the Ferrari AlphaTauri test dry tires in Portimao, from December 14 to 15.

Paul Ricard will host the following tests in February next year. Mercedes will participate in tests on day 1 and 2, with slicks. AlphaTauri will continue the next two days, 3 and 4, with wet compounds and finally, Aston Martin will join the Brackley team on February 7 and 8 to continue the development of dry tires in Jerez.