The 2-day take a look at will include a day of dry working on Tuesday with 2025 prototype slick compounds, earlier than the observe is made moist on Wednesday when the Italian tyre producer tries out a brand new excessive moist compound.
Ferrari’s common race drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are set to check someday every.
The moist observe working is essential as a result of moist tyre checks are tougher to organise, with Pirelli having to e-book in days at Paul Ricard or Fiorano the place the observe could be made moist artificially utilizing sprinkler programs.
Pirelli has gone blanket-less through the 2023 season with its blue-rimmed rain tyres, which have been unpopular due to their enormous efficiency drop in comparison with intermediates. Moreover, the shortage of visibility in circumstances that profit from these full moist tyres is already on the sting of what’s deemed protected.
“We now have two take a look at days. The primary one is a dry session. The second we moist the observe,” Pirelli chief engineer Simone Berra defined when requested by Motorsport.com in regards to the goals of the take a look at.
“We’re testing each moist and intermediates, however the precedence one is the moist. We wish to enhance its efficiency.
“We all know that in the mean time the moist is struggling slightly bit an excessive amount of from overheating and when it comes to efficiency it degrades fairly shortly as a result of blanket removing we did final 12 months. So, we’re working to lower the motion of the tread sample and enhance the overheating.”
“We now have a plan for the intermediates as properly, principally utilizing new compounds. Our goal is to take away the blankets as properly for the intermediates like we have now finished with the moist tyres.”
The goal is to have extra sturdy compounds prepared for the beginning of the 2025 season, though Pirelli did not utterly rule out introducing one thing sooner if the take a look at at Le Castellet is successful.
On the primary day with Ferrari, Pirelli will attempt to nail down its tyre construction for 2025 and consider prototypes of its softer vary of compounds for subsequent 12 months.
“For the slick take a look at on day one we’re primarily centered on freezing the construction for subsequent season,” Berra stated.
“However extra importantly, we are going to attempt to take a look at C3, C4 and C5 as properly at compound stage. For the C5 I believe it is the primary time this season we’re testing it. So, it is going to be fascinating to see some outcomes for the next-generation compound.”
Earlier than Imola, Ferrari already performed a wet-weather take a look at at Fiorano on the behest of the FIA to trial the newest spray guards answer, which was not successful.
