The Formula 1 season may end with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix every year, but that doesn’t spell the end of on-track action.
Teams always conduct a tire test the day after the F1 season ends for Pirelli, F1’s tire manufacturer, to test tires in specific scenarios to collect data for upcoming seasons. On top of that, the test is often an opportunity for young drivers to have experience in an F1 car, as each team runs two cars and will often put academy drivers in one of them. There were 25 drivers in the 2023 edition of the test this year.
Esteban Ocon of Alpine topped the charts overall on 110 total laps. There were three stoppages on the day — one when Mercedes driver George Russell crashed into the barriers in Turn 6 due to a car failure, another due to a water leak at Turn 13 and Turn 14 and the final one when driver Ayumu Iwasa’s AlphaTauri car failed during track action.
Here is what the final standings from the test looked like:
- Esteban Ocon (Alpine) [1:24.393]
- Pato O’Ward (McLaren) [1:24.662]
- Frederik Vesti (Mercedes) [1:24.679]
- Sergio Perez (Red Bull) [1:24.715]
- Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) [1:24.799]
- Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) [1:24.827]
- Mick Doohan (Alpine) [1:25.038]
- Robert Shwartzman (Ferrari) [1:25.050]
- Logan Sargeant (Williams) [1:25.263]
- Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) [1:25.371]
- Theo Pourchaire (Alfa Romeo) [1:25.424]
- Felipe Drugovich (Aston Martin) [1:25.554]
- Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) [1:25.570]
- Jake Dennis (Red Bull) [1:25.666]
- Ayumu Iwasa (AlphaTauri) [1:25.753]
- Oliver Bearman (Haas) [1:25.779]
- Zak O’Sullivan (Williams) [1:25.842]
- Oscar Piastri (McLaren) [1:25.930]
- Pietro Fittipaldi (Haas) [1:25.940]
- George Russell (Mercedes) [1:26.283]
- Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) [1:26.681]
- Franco Colapinto (Williams) [1:26.832]
- Daniel Ricciardo (AlphaTauri) [1:26.965]
- Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo) [1:27.387]
- Alexander Albon (Williams) [1:27.824]
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