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F1 2017 cars on target to be fastest-ever, claims Pirelli
Formula 1 is on target to deliver its fastest-ever cars this year, with Pirelli predicting potential lap records by the end of next week’s pre-season testing. Kimi Raikkonen’s best time of the first pre-season test so far is 1m20.960s, which is still slower than the cars were in the final years of V8 engines. However, F1 tyre supplier Pirelli is expecting much more performance to come over the remaining six days of testing – and predicts that laptimes drop by another two seconds before running finishes. When asked where he expected laptimes to be by the end of the two tests, Pirelli F1 racing manager Mario Isola said: “In my opinion, we should be around 1m18s – so you will have...
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