Pirelli’s motorsport director Mario Isola has revealed that the Milan-based firm will conduct two extra take a look at working earlier than 2025 F1 season kicks off on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit.
Following on from the take a look at outings in Paul Ricard and in Barcelona, the group of Pirelli engineers are heading additional south subsequent week, for 2 days of testing on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit, in Andalusia on 13 and 14 February. Alpine can be participating on each days, whereas McLaren and Mercedes will do in the future every.
The ultimate pre-season take a look at will happen at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit on 2 and three March with Alpine and Williams working each days. This identical venue will then host the one three day take a look at when all groups will run their 2025 vehicles previous to the opening spherical, the Australian Grand Prix.
Pirelli levels its first on-track exercise with McLaren on the Paul Ricard monitor in January, making an attempt out the 2026 intermediate and moist tyres earlier than finishing a two-day outing with the Woking-based outfit and Ferrari on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Commenting on the two-day working, Pirelli’s Motorsport Director Mario Isola: “It was a really helpful session, notably when it got here to offering a comparability between the varied totally different constructions for subsequent season, in addition to experimenting with some compounds from the tougher finish of the vary.
“The Barcelona circuit is named one of the demanding for the tyres when it comes to the vitality exerted and degradation, due to this fact the data we’ve got gathered over these two busy days can be essential for the longer term improvement of this technology of tyres.
“It’s a extremely demanding begin to the yr with 4 take a look at periods even earlier than the season begins and I wish to thank all of the groups which can be working with us, as a result of we all know how busy they’re in the mean time.”
