Vettel was hopeful that 2019 teammate Charles Leclerc would be able to gain a more thorough understanding of next year’s tyres when he tests on Wednesday, having lost running due to some minor issues and after a small crash at Turn 1 midway through the day.

“Unfortunately we had some small issues today, and took a bit more caution and time to change the broken parts. Nothing big, but we lost a bit of time,” Vettel said.

“No huge surprises. The tyres seem to work, seem to be fairly similar, we got a lot of data, now we need to have a look.

“I would have liked to do a little bit more, especially longer runs, so we missed a little bit of that. I think Charles will get hopefully more track time tomorrow and some more answers.”

Vettel’s thoughts on the tyre compounds were echoed by Lando Norris, who completed over two race distances for McLaren at Yas Marina.

“None were hugely different,” Norris said of the compounds. “Balance-wise, nothing really seemed to change. Obviously we felt a few things, but I probably shouldn’t say exactly…

“But there were a couple of differences. They weren’t exactly the same, some were a tiny bit better, some a tiny bit worse. Nothing too dramatic."