Fernando Alonso admits that Ferrari struggled badly in the wet conditions in Korea today, but is hopeful of a better performance in the dry as the weekend progresses.
Alonso said that the lack of dry track time today was frustrating, especially given Pirelli’s use of the soft and supersoft tyres here. Teams are keen to get som data.
“To lose today’s practice in dry conditions is even more difficult, but the good thing about this is that it’s the same for everybody,” said Alonso. “We just need to maximise tomorrow’s FP3. If it’s dry it will be not a normal Saturday morning.
“I think we all want to test more things tomorrow, and then in qualy and the race we will arrive with not much information. We have the fuel for the whole race, but the strategy is not a big problem, you stop as many times as you need.
“Today we were not very happy or very competitive in wet conditions. Unfortunately it seems that we replicate the problem that sometimes happens to us in dry conditions with the slow warm-up. In wet conditions this is maybe an even bigger problem, and we take too many laps to get the right performance and right tyre temperature, and in that lap the tyre is maybe not in good shape any more, when you get the temperature.
“We saw the McLarens today very dominant, they did a time straight away from the box. For the race maybe this can be an advantage, because we can be much more consistent and run the tyres a little bit longer, but sure for qualifying it’s a penalty.”
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