Liam Lawson was again on the wheel of a Method 1 automotive this week, with the New Zealander – who will change Daniel Ricciardo at RB from the upcoming United States Grand Prix – participating in a Pirelli tyre take a look at.
Following a rain-hit Tuesday session on the Mugello Circuit, improved climate circumstances meant Wednesday’s testing programme may run to plan, permitting Lawson, McLaren’s Lando Norris and Ferrari pair Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc to hit the observe.
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Pirelli’s engineers labored on two parallel programmes, with Pink Bull and Ferrari targeted on growth of their 2025 compounds, “particularly the toughest within the deliberate vary”, whereas McLaren ran a mule automotive to expertise prototype 2026 tyres.
A humid begin to the day meant all three automobiles (Ferrari working Sainz within the morning and swapping to Leclerc for the afternoon) initially ran intermediate tyres, earlier than the observe progressively dried up they usually bolted on slick tyres.
