Pirelli chooses softer compounds for first 'Alternative Tyre Allocation' weekend · RaceFans

Pirelli chooses softer compounds for first ‘Alternative Tyre Allocation’ weekend · RaceFans

April 5, 2023

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Pirelli has nominated softer tyre compounds for subsequent month’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, which is able to see the primary use of System 1’s new ‘Various Tyre Allocation’.

F1 is testing the ATA at two race weekends this 12 months as a part of an effort to find out whether or not it could actually cut back the variety of tyres it makes use of with out negatively affecting the competitors.

Drivers will probably be permitted simply 11 units of tyres as a substitute of the standard 13. At an odd weekend, every driver receives eight units of soppy tyres, three units of mediums and two hards. The ATA will change that to 4 units of softs, 4 mediums and three hards at Imola, and once more at one additional race this 12 months.

The ATA additionally specifies which tyres drivers could use in every part of qualifying. They’ll solely be allowed to make use of arduous compound tyres in Q1, mediums in Q2 and softs in Q3.

When requested by RaceFans final month, some drivers expressed considerations over the plan to implement the ATA at Imola as a result of low temperatures usually seen on the observe. Final 12 months’s race noticed the bottom temperatures of the season: The ambient temperatures peaked at simply 14C throughout the grand prix, whereas the observe floor solely reached 18C.

“I hope it’s not going to be chilly in Imola. In any other case it’s going to be fairly difficult,” mentioned Max Verstappen.

Pirelli has responded by deciding on its softest vary of tyres for Imola this 12 months. The C3 and C4 specification will probably be used in addition to the C5, which is one stage softer than was used final 12 months.

This vary of tyres will probably be used for the primary time on the subsequent spherical of the championship in Azerbaijan, because it was final 12 months. The tyre compound choice for the Miami Grand Prix can be unchanged: Drivers can have the C2, C3 and C4 compounds out there.