Bridgestone’s Director of Motorsport Tyre Development Hirohide Hamashima has predicted that there will be a lot of track surface evolution in Korea next weekend, when the Yeongam circuit hosts its inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship event.
“This Grand Prix presents everyone in Formula 1 with an interesting challenge as the circuit has only recently been completed,” said Hamashima. “This means that we cannot look at any data from races there so we have to rely on simulation data.
“From this information, the maximum and average speeds will be 310 km/h and 205 km/h respectively. This places the track between Catalunya and Istanbul and close to Sepang in terms of speed, which is an important factor determining the allocation of the hard and soft tyres.
“Korea should be a good test of all of our technology and I expect all the team engineers to be working very hard indeed over the weekend trying to understand the best car set-ups and tyre strategies for the race.
“As it will be the first motor racing event at the facility we expect a lot of track surface evolution over the weekend. It will also be interesting to see how the teams and individual drivers adapt to this track, particularly those in the hunt for the championship battle.”
Bridgestone’s Director of Motorsport Hiroshi Yasukawa meanwhile is looking forward to going to Korea for the first time.
“It is always good when Formula 1 visits a new market and Korea is an exciting economy with strong growth. Bridgestone have a developing presence in this market, however the additional marketing push provided by our presence at the first ever Grand Prix there should be highly beneficial. Congratulations to Korea for welcoming Formula 1,” he added.
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