With most cars able to just about achieve a one-stop race strategy at the Circuit of the Americas for last weekend's United States Grand Prix, teams and drivers got a taste of what it will mean if Pirelli go through with their recent threat to go "conservative" with their 2014 tyre compounds. The tyre manufacturer used the same word, "conservative", to describe its selection of P Zero Orange hard compounds as the prime designation and the P Zero White medium tyre for the option. Race winner Sebastian Vettel was comfortably able to to make it halfway through the race on the latter, suggesting that degradation had not been a significant factor. Without a big difference in...
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