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Three Drivers Push Limits at Pirelli Tyre Test in Hungary
Highlights
- Three drivers tested 2027 Pirelli tyre compounds at Hungaroring
- Colapinto, Bortoleto, Crawford completed over 400 laps collectively
- Colapinto set fastest lap at 1m 20.371s during testing
- Aston Martin ran filming day with Honda’s new-spec power unit
- Tests focused on tyre performance, degradation, and durability data
- Data collected will support tyre development for 2027 regulations
Three drivers remained at the Hungaroring after the Hungarian Grand Prix to run Pirelli’s 2027 tyre development test, providing data on performance, degradation and durability across short and long runs.
Alpine’s Franco Colapinto, Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto and Aston Martin reserve Jak Crawford split duties over two days, combining screening work with race‑style stints and qualifying simulations.
Day one totals were heavy: Colapinto logged 128 laps and topped the times in 1m20.371s, Bortoleto recorded 141 laps at 1m20.813s, and Crawford managed 136 laps with 1m24.598s.
Colapinto set the day-one benchmark at 1m20.371s, narrowly ahead of Bortoleto’s 1m20.813s.
Early runs cycled through multiple C3 iterations to shortlist constructions and compounds, before lengthening stints to map degradation curves, thermal sensitivity and recovery across different run plans and fuel loads.
Colapinto and Bortoleto then sampled softer C4 and C5 options to broaden correlation, while Aston Martin conducted a separate filming day featuring Honda’s new‑spec power unit.
Aston Martin combined the test with a filming day running Honda’s new‑specification power unit.
Wednesday repeated the programme to validate consistency across track evolution and temperatures, strengthening Pirelli’s dataset on wear profiles, graining tendencies and heat‑cycle behaviour ahead of construction sign‑off.
The test followed a Budapest weekend where frontrunners faced setbacks, including Lewis Hamilton’s errors, Max Verstappen’s struggles, and team reviews such as Haas’s Hungaroring verdict.
In total, the three drivers surpassed 400 laps, giving Pirelli robust coverage from short qualifying sequences to fuel‑corrected long runs that expose thermal fade and any late‑stint plateauing.
The trio completed more than 400 laps across two days, delivering a broad dataset for Pirelli’s modelling and validation.
The objective is to anticipate 2027 load and aero profiles, delivering stable operating windows without sacrificing warm‑up, peak grip or robustness during repeated safety‑car restarts and parc fermé constraints.
Teams gain procedural mileage and correlation opportunities, but car development is limited, keeping the emphasis on gathering representative tyre feedback for Pirelli’s modelling and validation tools.
Attention now shifts to processing results and scheduling further runs, with any directional tweaks fed into the next prototypes before final approval ahead of the 2027 season.
Visual Summary
While F1 paused for summer,
Colapinto, Bortoleto & Crawford 🏎️🏎️🏎️
kept testing at full speed
Colapinto, Bortoleto & Crawford 🏎️🏎️🏎️
kept testing at full speed
Colapinto
1:20.371
128 laps
🔵
Alpine
Bortoleto
1:20.813
141 laps
🟢
Audi
Crawford
1:24.598
136 laps
🟠
Aston Martin
Bortoleto logged the most laps in a day: 141
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141
141
Testing today to shape 2027’s Formula 1 tyres
Why this matters:
As the F1 grid takes a break, these three push technology forward—ensuring the next generation of racing is faster, safer, and more thrilling. Every lap today, a step into tomorrow. 🛞
Daniel Miller reports on Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends with race-day analysis, team-radio highlights, and point-standings updates. He explains power-unit upgrades, aerodynamic developments, and driver rivalries in straightforward, SEO-friendly language for a global F1 audience.
