\u2022 The first session went to plan but the second was very much shortened because of two lengthy red flag periods in what was not an easy first day on track in Singapore. Scuderia Ferrari HP completed 83 laps today \u2013 43 with Leclerc and 40 with Hamilton \u2013 evaluating all three Pirelli compounds, the C3, C4 and C5.<\/p>\n
\u2022 During the two sessions, both drivers tested the cooling system fitted to the SF-25, as the Race Director had declared a \u201cHeat Hazard\u201d for this Grand Prix. After further evaluation the team and drivers will decide whether or not to use it in the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0In tomorrow\u2019s final hour of free practice at 17.30 local (11.30 CEST) work will continue on fine tuning the cars for qualifying at 21.00 (15.00 CEST) as grid position has such a strong influence on the final result of this race. However, run plan might have to be altered slightly\u00a0as it was impossible to do any long run testing in FP2.<\/p>\n
FP1<\/p>\n
\u2022 The session went smoothly for Charles and Lewis, both getting through their programme, doing plenty of laps on the Hard tyres to get used to the track before upping the pace on the softest compound available here.<\/p>\n
\u2022 There was significant track evolution as the track cleaned up and rubbered in, with lap times coming down accordingly.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Towards the end of the session, Charles took on more fuel to run in race configuration, while Lewis only did one lap in this trim before both drivers did practice starts on the grid.<\/p>\n
FP2<\/p>\n
\u2022 The second session, the more useful one, running at the same time as tomorrow\u2019s qualifying, was a stop-start affair because of two long red flag periods, after first George Russell and then Liam Lawson crashed into the barriers. Charles and Lewis began on the Medium compound and only had limited running on the Softs because of the second lengthy stop.<\/p>\n
\u2022 As cars were preparing to leave the pits before the restart, there was a coming together between Charles and Lando Norris as they came out of their garages to queue up and wait for the green light with just ten minutes of track time remaining. The Scuderia was fined for the incident.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Charles then set his fastest time on the Softs, but never got a really clean lap, while Lewis was unable to go quicker than he had done on the Mediums.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc #16<\/p>\n
Overall, it was a bit of a difficult day. FP1 gave us some positive indications and we were able to build a good base, while, for everyone, FP2 was much more chaotic and we didn\u2019t manage to put everything together as we wanted. I believe the pace is there and we need to maximise the potential executing everything well and bringing all the pieces together. I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll be in the fight for pole, but the target is to qualify well and give ourselves the best possible chance for Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton #44<\/p>\n
Overall, it\u2019s been a productive first day. It\u2019s my first time driving here with Ferrari, and I\u2019m feeling positive with how the car is behaving and responding on this track so far.We spent the sessions getting properly acclimatised and I feel we made good progress heading into FP2. It was a slightly disrupted evening with the red flags, so we weren\u2019t able to complete our long runs as planned, but there were still encouraging signs.There\u2019s work to do overnight, as always, but we\u2019ll take the positives from today and look to build on them for tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 The first session went to plan but the second was very much shortened because of two lengthy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2325,1665,1687,372,6537,832,17955,20939,35477,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-2325","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-scuderia-ferrari","tag-sf-25","tag-singapore-grand-prix","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}