Next Monday, Scuderia Ferrari will be the first to take action for Pirelli’s enormous tyre test. Each team will have three days of testing on Pirelli’s new 18-inch tyres for 2021, and the Italian side will do that in Jerez.
Test for Ferrari
In 2022 Pirelli will introduce a brand new tyre. Formula 1 as a whole will get a new look with the new aerodynamic regulations, but alongside the changes to the cars, Pirelli will also introduce new tyres. 18-inch tyres will be used for this and they need to be tested extensively in 2021. For this season Pirelli has been given permission to hold 30 test days with the new tyres. Each team will get three days to test the tyre and the complete calendar of who will test when will be announced soon according to Motorsport.it. Ferrari will be the first to test the new tyres, next Monday.
Ferrari will drive 2019 SF90 at Jerez with the tyres for 2022. The 2019 car has been tuned exactly to meet the 18-inch tyres. Normally a test programme consists of laps on a wet and dry track, but at Jerez, there is no possibility to wet the track with sprinklers.
Both Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc and Spanish teammate Carlos Sainz will be doing the 18-inch Pirelli tyre test with the SF90 in Jerez on Monday. Each of them get half a day, meaning one will do the morning session, whill the other will driver during the afternoon session.
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