In addition to building the car, teams must prepare a tire strategy to be compatible with the Technical Rules, which were first introduced at the Belgian Grand Prix.
For information, Pirelli specially prepared for the duel in Spa-Francorchamps 2 sets of C2 hard tires, 3 sets of C3 medium tires and 8 sets of C4 soft tires. Usually the team likes to use 1 stop tactics there, so the selection must be carefully analyzed before playing Lewis Hamilton and his friends did not look so fast in the first laps.
FP1 will be used to study layout changes in different railway sectors. Additional obstacles, gravel pits and five-turn tarmac can set participants back. It will be interesting to see how 80 million euros (about IDR 1.1 trillion) will affect the level of competition in the competition there.
Compared to its rival Red Bull Racing, however, it is a bit more relaxed.
Because they already have information about the "new face" of the Spa, as the old car was parked there for promotional purposes. Verstappen's controversial victory in Belgium last season was his motivation.
The Red Bull rider wants to fight fair. He and his partner Sergio Perez are also set to test the various improvements applied to the RB18. Conversely, Charles Leclerc, who is 80 points behind Verstappen, does not want to give up. Along with his colleague Carlos Sainz, he urged Ferrari to sharpen up and provide better cars.
Reliability issues need to be addressed in the first half of F1 2022. Spa is the right arena to test it. Lewis Hamilton is ready to present his first victory for Mercedes. He is currently in third place at the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix. Meanwhile, George Russell lives in P2. Alpine and
McLaren bowed to fourth place.
The team is living the dream of fighting forward. Fernando Alonso was surprisingly able to steal the interim points. In addition to F1, Formula 2 and Formula 3 will also be presented this weekend.
Belgian F1 Grand Prix program, Friday (26/08/2022)
1. RP 19:00-20:00
2. RP 10:00-11:00
