Sergio Perez a week ago in Jeddah he had basically had to sacrifice his free practice Friday to test a new fund designed for the Abu Dhabi grand final to get less drag, an extreme attempt by Red Bull to counter the ‘rocket ‘Mercedes at the power unit level. Today in Abu Dhabi Sergio Perez was able to work without particular experiments, apart from those that are logically performed by the teams in order to collect as much data as possible to analyze in order to find the ideal compromise in view of Qualifying and Race.
In the single lap simulation, the Mexican was not so far from box mate Max Verstappen, what worries Red Bull more is the gap between the two ‘Bulls’ and Lewis Hamilton, more than six tenths of a second. In long run, however, the RB16-B have risen in tone, even if of course we cannot assume that the team of Milton Keynes and that of Brackley took to the track with the same fuel load. Sergio Perez carried out his own race simulation with medium tires, while Verstappen concentrated on soft tires.
This is the balance from the Mexican at the end of Friday free practice in Abu Dhabi, where Perez and Verstappen explored opposite set-ups to provide the technicians under Adrian Newey’s orders with all the necessary data to be able to make the final choices at the set level. -up in view of Qualifying and Race: “I don’t know how much the changes have actually improved the track, it remains fun to race here, but I’m not so sure it has increased the possibility of overtaking. We have a lot of work to do after today’s sessions. We took to the track with very different set-ups, now it’s about taking the best of the two versions and combining it as much as possible. The third free practice session will be very important, in Qualifying we have to be competitive ”.
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