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Friday analysis - Lotus looking hot in the desert
Friday’s first free practice sessions in Bahrain were in consistent conditions ambient temperatures ranging between 43 and 45 degrees Celsius in the morning and 39 and 41 in the afternoon. That enabled teams to do their usual set-up and tyre evaluation work, but though Pirelli’s two hardest compounds seem more durable than the choices in China, drivers report that their behaviour is not entirely what they expected. On top of that, setting the cars up to save the vulnerable rear tyres promotes understeer, which in turn hurts lap times. We take a team-by-team look at the early form in Sakhir…LotusKimi Raikkonen, 1m 35.345s, P9/1m 34.154s, P1Romain Grosjean, 1m 35.611s,...
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