Rain on Sunday morning, low cloud and cold temperatures are likely to make for a damp (if not fully wet) start to the Chinese Grand Prix. If the rain returns, all bets are off in terms of strategy, with Sunday set to become the first meaningful running on Pirelli's new, wider extreme-wet and intermediate tyres. The extreme-wets are actually entirely new for this weekend, with Pirelli bringing a new compound that did not feature during the wet-weather test in Barcelona earlier this year.
"We have a new extreme-wet that is different compared to the Barcelona tyre only on the tread compound," Pirelli's Mario Isola told ESPN.