Pedro de la Rosa and Romain Grosjean have wrapped up Pirelli's five-day testing session at the Sakhir circuit in Bahrain.
The duo, who focused on refining both the compound and construction, completed nearly 3,000 kilometers in Bahrain which means the Italian company have already done 10,000km of testing ahead of its return to F1 next season.
"I think this goes to show that, wherever you are in the world, uncertain weather can arrive in a variety of forms," Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery said. "But Formula 1 is all about expecting the unexpected, and we were able to quickly react to these changing circumstances by extending our test.
"With the extra time we had, we were probably able to put in a little bit more work than we had originally planned, so everything worked out very well in the end. We ran through our entire dry tyre range, and to have reached the point where we are at now, just five months after the F1 tyres ran for the very first time at Mugello in August, is an incredible testimony to the commitment and capability shown by every member of our team.
"We ran two drivers in order to compare two different sets of feedback, and the fact that they were both saying the same positive things at the end of the test only underlines the progress that we have made. There's still some work to do, but we can head into 2011 with confidence."
The tyre manufacturer still has two tests left before the new season kicks off. They will be back in Bahrain on January 9-10 before heading to Abu Dhabi for a three-day test on January 15-18.
Pirelli will be back in action in Bahrain on January 9-10, before moving onto a three-day test in Abu Dhabi on January 15-18.
