Post by blacktulip on Oct 21, 2010 15:54:47 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]From ITV F1[/glow]
Circuit designer Hermann Tilke has predicted that grip levels will be extremely low all weekend as the final layer of asphalt was only recently put down, and Force India's Tonio Liuzzi expects this to be the story of the event.
"I think they finished the Tarmac last week, and no other cars have driven around here. When Karun [Chandhok] did his run it was maybe four or five asphalts ago," said the Italian.
"So I think it will slippery all the way through the weekend, especially as the forecasts predict a few showers on Saturday.
"That will not help at all for qualifying because the oil will come out of the Tarmac, and I’m sure we will be drifting all over the place on Friday and Saturday.
"Maybe Sunday will be a bit better if it doesn’t rain, but all the weekend there will be quite drastically low grip.
"But we knew that before coming here and we have to expect it will be a difficult race. It could be really easy to make mistakes and run off the road, but it will make things more interesting.
"It’s not easy at all, because it’s a condition nobody has been in before. Even other new circuits have had other cars driving around in the weeks before; here it’s the first time even for road cars and the safety car.
"So it will be more difficult to predict. The improvement [over the weekend] could be higher than everybody expects, but it also depends how much oil [seeps out] of the Tarmac. So it will be a question mark for everybody, and a gamble on the set-up."
But the drivers are confident that although the surface is very new and will be treacherous, it should not break up
Circuit designer Hermann Tilke has predicted that grip levels will be extremely low all weekend as the final layer of asphalt was only recently put down, and Force India's Tonio Liuzzi expects this to be the story of the event.
"I think they finished the Tarmac last week, and no other cars have driven around here. When Karun [Chandhok] did his run it was maybe four or five asphalts ago," said the Italian.
"So I think it will slippery all the way through the weekend, especially as the forecasts predict a few showers on Saturday.
"That will not help at all for qualifying because the oil will come out of the Tarmac, and I’m sure we will be drifting all over the place on Friday and Saturday.
"Maybe Sunday will be a bit better if it doesn’t rain, but all the weekend there will be quite drastically low grip.
"But we knew that before coming here and we have to expect it will be a difficult race. It could be really easy to make mistakes and run off the road, but it will make things more interesting.
"It’s not easy at all, because it’s a condition nobody has been in before. Even other new circuits have had other cars driving around in the weeks before; here it’s the first time even for road cars and the safety car.
"So it will be more difficult to predict. The improvement [over the weekend] could be higher than everybody expects, but it also depends how much oil [seeps out] of the Tarmac. So it will be a question mark for everybody, and a gamble on the set-up."
But the drivers are confident that although the surface is very new and will be treacherous, it should not break up
