Red Bull and Mercedes almost a second slower in qualifying than last week
- GPblog.com
Pirelli has chosen not to use the same tyres for the second Grand Prix at Silverstone this weekend. The tyre supplier has instead gone for softer tyres. For example, last week's mediums have become the hard tyre this week.
Slower than last week
Soft tyres normally mean faster times, but none of that is true. No team was able to improve on last week's qualifying time. For some teams, it was 0.1 or 0.2 seconds, as was the case with Haas, AlphaTauri, Racing Point and Renault.
The traditional top three, on the other hand, lose a lot more time on their qualifying laps. Mercedes and Red Bull Racing are both exactly 0.851 seconds slower, while Ferrari lost a good second on their time last week. It seems that the heat in Northamptonshire plays an important role in the slower lap times.
All teams slower compared to their best qualifying lap seven days ago:
— Phillip Horton (@PHortonF1) August 8, 2020
Haas +0.096s
AlphaTauri +0.180s
Racing Point +0.243s
Renault +0.288s
Williams +0.723s
Mercedes +0.851s
Red Bull +0.851s
McLaren +0.996s
Ferrari +1.187s
Alfa Romeo +1.269s#F170