Pirelli will add a sixth tyre compound to its vary subsequent yr with the purpose of bettering the racing on avenue tracks.
System 1’s official tyre provider will increase its vary of tyres from 5 to 6 subsequent yr.
“We’re already planning to go softer for subsequent yr, to introduce a C6, a softer compound particularly for avenue circuits,” mentioned Pirelli motorsport director Mario Isola.
The tyre has already been examined at Paul Ricard. “We’re planning to check it once more in Monza or later within the yr,” mentioned Isola.
Together with that change, Pirelli additionally intends to melt different compounds in its vary. “We have now this concept to introduce a softer compound and to maneuver barely additionally the vary of the opposite compounds,” mentioned Isola. The present C2 compound will transfer nearer to the C3, whereas the C1 will stay the toughest tyre.
Pirelli’s vary featured six compounds as just lately as final yr. Nevertheless the toughest of these, the C0, was not used at any race. In 2018 they supplied seven compounds starting from ‘hyper delicate’ to ‘tremendous exhausting’.
“The 2025 building has been outlined 90% so we all know that we will now focus extra on compounds growth with the targets, to cut back overheating, and transfer just a little little bit of the compounds with a purpose to have them higher spaced,” concluded Isola.
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Groups have welcomed the transfer to supply a softer tyre for avenue tracks. In Monaco some drivers had been capable of full virtually all the race distance on Pirelli’s softest tyre compound, the C5, after they had been capable of change tyres when the race was red-flagged on the primary lap.
Aston Martin group principal Mike Krack mentioned introducing the C6 is a worthwhile transfer “as a result of I believe it opens up extra strategic choices” for races, significantly because the technical rules will stay largely unchanged.
“Whether or not it is going to be [nominating] C6, C5, C4 or C6, C4, C2 or stuff like that, that’s clearly for [Pirelli] to decide on. However I believe with the automobiles staying the identical [for] the ultimate yr of the rules, I believe including some variation there, we welcome that.”
Final yr Pirelli nominated its softest tyre, the C5, at 5 tracks: Baku, Monaco, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Purple Bull Ring, Hungaroring, Monza, Singapore, Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Las Vegas Strip and Yas Marina.
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