Paul Ricard Test – 134 laps for Sebastian

January 28, 2016 by Ferrari

• The Pirelli test ends with a 'marathon'

Le Castellet, 26 January – With nine planned runs completed today, the Pirelli test drew to a close. It was an opportunity to fire up the engines after a two month break, courtesy of a special test to look at 2016 wet weather tyres. The distances planned for today's running were much bigger than yesterday, with longer runs to evaluate the behaviour of the prototype tyres in variable track conditions.

In the closing stages, Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time, with a 1.06.750, running intermediate tyres. 'It's always useful to drive a car,' commented the German at the end of the day. 'It was fun, even if, with a lot of different prototype tyres, you may get different results, without knowing which tyres we are testing, or if they are going to be used in the future or not. You can have a rough idea which tyres you test and how the tyres were last year, but it's not clear what's going to happen with the tyres after this, even if for sure there are some results, but it's too early to say. It was dryer than yesterday, as they put less water on the track, but they provided us with very consistent conditions.' Sebastian completed a total of 134 laps today, equivalent to around 473 km.