What are the likely strategies for the frontrunners? It’s becoming a theme of qualifying this year that the field is so close that teams can’t risk a lap on the medium compound tyre to try and get through Q2. This weekend the gap in terms of one-lap performance between the medium and soft was an estimated 0.8s, so all of the top 10 had to use the soft compound to reach Q3. So that means the preferred strategy is the same for everyone from Charles Leclerc down to Valtteri Bottas in 10th, with the opening stint on the softs giving way to a long final stint on the hard compound.