Racing slick

We expect possible

drops in about 30 or 40 minutes, but nothing to move the circuit away from Slicks.

Okay team radio there for Rio Harakawa there is yeah light rain sort of circling around the area but that could well how could that affect things then JP could trying to survive on dry tyres with a little bit of dampness in the air could that bring others into the mix?

We have had the full reset as Brendan Hartley put it with the fuel going in during the two laps of a virtual safety car.

We had a meeting and made this decision.

And they convinced me to go... to the Slicks in Malaysia.

They didn't get on the formation lap there.

Already, the trust is slightly cracking.

You know, on a track where overtaking has always been difficult, you remove any possibility in a sprint race of there being any kind of track delta.

On paper, with intermediates, there could have been something if we'd have gone on that crossover point to Slicks.

But that crossover point is bigger because it's Singapore.

So you would take that risk quicker at Silverstone.

You would cross over to Slicks and go, well, I know I can overtake people.

I know I can get past people and I can use that extra pace.

Whereas Singapore, where you're feeling aero disruption from eight seconds back, no. You're never going to have that.

We saw Scopiastri do that.

He was at McLaren with one of the other teams to go with the Slicks.

Oscar, within those formation laps, just went, no, no, no, no, this track's too wet in places.

Because