20 April, 2013 Apr.19 Pirelli is set to make only minor modifications to its 2013 tyres after this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix. It was believed Formula 1′s controversial official supplier would make significant changes to this year's heavily-degrading tyres for Barcelona and beyond, but Paul Hembery said on Friday that most teams are actually pushing for the status quo. Germany's Auto Motor und Sport reports that, in fact, the only changes will be to the ‘hard' and ‘soft' compounds, with the ‘medium' and ‘super-soft' tyres to be left untouched. Correspondent Michael Schmidt said the minor changes to the compounds are designed simply to minimise the amount of...
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