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285 wet laps for Pirelli

Daniel Ricciardo, Kimi Raikkonen and Stoffel Vandoorne covered 285 laps on the opening day of Pirelli's two-day wet tyre test at the Paul Ricardo circuit. Although it was a cold start to the two-day test, which Pirelli earmarked to test their wet compounds, it was the Paul Ricard circuit's sprinkler system that kept the track wet. 35 sprinklers artificially soaked the track with '3 million litres of recycled rain water' – that's according to the French circuit's Twitter account – which meant the three drivers were able to get in plenty of wet running. The trio completed runs of 10 laps each with Pirelli revealing in the morning that the cars would run '10s apart to maintain...
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