Mark Webber was fastest in Friday afternoon’s practice at Spa today, but the Aussie played down the performance on a day when there was only a brief window of dry running during a session that started and finished on a wet track.
“We had a look at both the soft and the medium, two laps on each, so not much,” said Webber. “We have to do some housekeeping, ride heights, brake balance, that sort of stuff, before we really get the car on the limit. The track was pretty dry at the end there, but it was still pretty green and slippery.
“We need to get out there and get the mileage in, but on the other side of the coin we need to save tyres for Saturday and Sunday. You don’t want to be using your allocation today and then starve for the rest of the weekend.”
Webber admitted that it won’t be easy to choose a seventh gear ratio to cover all eventualities.
“It’s not easy because you have a big difference between top gears with low fuel and high fuel, and DRS and no DRS. All of that needs to be taken into account. I think there are going to be a few top gears which are not perfect on Sunday because we didn’t get too much information today.
“But no one’s done more running than anybody else, that’s the way it is today, and we’ve got to make the most of tomorrow.”
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