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Chinese GP: Practice team notes - Pirelli

Temperatures were relatively warm compared to previous years, with track temperatures peaking at 33 degrees during the day and ambient temperatures around 20 degrees. This contributed to the fact that hardly any graining was seen. The warm ambient temperatures helped to keep the tyres within the correct temperature window on the long straights here, which was an important factor. The performance gap between the hard and medium tyres is around 0.7s seconds, while the gap between the medium and the soft is about 1.1 seconds. There's some degradation on the soft tyre as expected, around 0.2 seconds per lap so far. As usual, the circuit was quite green and slippery in the morning but the cars...
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