Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari have been back out on track this week to help Pirelli with some valuable development work.<\/p>\n
While no races are being held in April<\/a>, some teams are still in action to support the tyre manufacturer\u2019s testing programme.<\/p>\n After Red Bull<\/a> and Racing Bulls<\/a> stayed behind in Japan for two days of running, Ferrari<\/a> are taking part in a test (across Thursday and Friday) at their Fiorano track, while Mercedes<\/a> and McLaren<\/a> are preparing to head to the Nurburgring for another session from April 14-15.<\/p>\n Ferrari\u2019s test is dedicated to the development of wet-weather compounds \u2013 Hamilton completing 142 laps (some 423 kilometres) on Thursday as he worked through runs on full wet and intermediate tyres.<\/p>\n The Fiorano track surface was artificially watered using an irrigation system, which created consistent wet conditions for Pirelli to extract data from.<\/p>\n Check out photographs of Hamilton\u2019s running in the gallery at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari have been back out on track this week to help Pirelli with some valuable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-598166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}