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Pirelli Slick tire allocations for first four GPs

1 - Bahrain Hard and Soft
2 – Australia Hard and Soft
3 – Malaysia Hard and Soft
4 – China Hard and Soft

[myownalias]

Pirelli Slick tire allocations for first four GPs

1 - Bahrain Hard and Soft
2 – Australia Hard and Soft
3 – Malaysia Hard and Soft
4 – China Hard and Soft

Hmm, I see a pattern emerging...

[What's Burning?]

Pirelli Slick tire allocations for first four GPs

1 - Bahrain Hard and Soft
2 – Australia Hard and Soft
3 – Malaysia Hard and Soft
4 – China Hard and Soft

Hmm, I see a pattern emerging...

Apparently the reasoning is to give teams to get acclimated to the new compounds and be able to focus on those two set up in the immediate future, as the SS and Mediums continue to be worked on. Pirelli is also confirming two stopper strategies for all of the first4 races.

[myownalias]

The "forced" tyre degradation and mandatory tyre stop to change compound completely negates the point of the refuelling ban; if you are going to have an enforced refuelling ban then let drivers/teams decide of whatever tyre strategy they want to use, if a driver like Jenson Button or Kamui Kobayashi, want to run 100% race distance on one set of tyres, let them do it! I firmly believe that would make F1 much more exciting; the FIA never seem to think through their ideas! I say bring back free choice of tyres and bring back refuelling, I really dislike all these artificial overtaking strategies, moveable wings, KERS, mandatory tyre changes etc, this is not what F1 is supposed to be about!

[racechick]

Pirelli Slick tire allocations for first four GPs

1 - Bahrain Hard and Soft
2 – Australia Hard and Soft
3 – Malaysia Hard and Soft
4 – China Hard and Soft

Hmm, I see a pattern emerging...

Apparently the reasoning is to give teams to get acclimated to the new compounds and be able to focus on those two set up in the immediate future, as the SS and Mediums continue to be worked on. Pirelli is also confirming two stopper strategies for all of the first4 races.

Does that mean they are insisting on two stops for everyone or expecting that is what will happen?

[What's Burning?]

Pirelli Slick tire allocations for first four GPs

1 - Bahrain Hard and Soft
2 – Australia Hard and Soft
3 – Malaysia Hard and Soft
4 – China Hard and Soft

Hmm, I see a pattern emerging...

Apparently the reasoning is to give teams to get acclimated to the new compounds and be able to focus on those two set up in the immediate future, as the SS and Mediums continue to be worked on. Pirelli is also confirming two stopper strategies for all of the first4 races.

Does that mean they are insisting on two stops for everyone or expecting that is what will happen?

It means that based on the degradation of the tires and the track surfaces they expect two pit stops to be done, the requirements are one for one change.

Given the years that Bridgestone was at it and the fact that they still as of last year were getting the expected wear wrong, I think it's all open to the conditions on that day the drivers skill and the way the given tires suit the car.

[F1er]

Oh this kind'o rubber the title suggests otherwise! carry on

[What's Burning?]

Oh this kind'o rubber the title suggests otherwise! carry on

What you're thinking of is latex or silicone or even lamb's skin. Not rubber at all.

[darwin dali]

Oh this kind'o rubber the title suggests otherwise! carry on

What you're thinking of is latex or silicone or even lamb's skin. Not rubber at all.

...or vegan

[spankyham]

What I thought was the most interesting news from testing in Jerez was that Nando managed to get 40 laps (by my calculations that's nearly 180Klms) out of one set of tyres. Jerez is a very tough circuit on tyres. His times on that day were mostly relatively high, so we can assume a heavy fuel load. But, the times were very consistent from start to finish, only small drop off per lap. Ferrari also have not shown their racing aero package yet, and with better aeros comes better tyre wear.

I'm doubt very much that it would be considered for Bahrain, but, I wonder whether Ferrari are working on keeping a one stop option available for some races this year. Start on primes and finish on softs when the car is lighter and there would be a lot more rubber down. Particularly races where you get a SC for 5 or so laps. Most races are 300 plus change kilometers.

Melbourne (307Klms) might be a target. Lowish tyre wear but hards have already been designated as the prime. If Nando can get 200+ out of his primes especially if there was a safety car, it's conceivable, if the car really is gentle on tyres, that he could work a one stop strategy, even with the Pirelli's.

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I'm looking forward to the possibilities.

[scotty]

The durability of Pirelli's intermediate tyre impressed drivers during the first hours of today's Barcelona test.

The track was damp at the beginning of the day, allowing teams to run both the wet and intermediate tyre before it dried out.

While the dry compound tyres have degraded faster than most drivers expected, they found the intermediate stayed consisted as the surface dried.

"It was important to drive on intermediates today, to be honest I was quite surprised by them," Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari told AUTOSPORT.

"The track was not completely wet, quite humid, and it was drying up. We were quite fast, able to run in the 1m40s and quite consistently. The tyre did not degrade at all."

Sauber Kamui Kobayashi agreed it compares well to Bridgestone's intermediate, but says the tyre's performance is not as good.

"It has a lot poorer grip but the consistency was better with Pirelli - that seems to be okay," he said.

"It's very difficult to judge where we have to be on the wet tyres or intermediate tyres. I think the compound itself is very hard."

Alguersuari tried to find a crossover point between the intermediate and slick tyres, but said he went a bit too early for the tyre.

"We tried the slicks in the wet and humid conditions and it wasn't really working," he said. "We needed to go back to the garage and wait a bit more time to go back and perform the same laptime on the slicks.

[killem2]

One would think with all the attempts of the FIA to force cost reductions, they would want tires to last as long as possible. Force pit stops means needless replacements of tires and wasted money.

[scotty]

One would think with all the attempts of the FIA to force cost reductions, they would want tires to last as long as possible. Force pit stops means needless replacements of tires and wasted money.

They have to strike some sort of balance with the entertainment factor though...

[vaptin]

One would think with all the attempts of the FIA to force cost reductions, they would want tires to last as long as possible. Force pit stops means needless replacements of tires and wasted money.

Surely they've been throwing away tyres anyway?

Has the number of tyres allocated to a driver on a race weekend been increased?