At the final in-season test of the year, held straight after the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Pirelli’s 2015 tyres were seen for the first time – although there were no dedicated Pirelli test days, with each team concentrating on its own independent programme. Every team is allocated 135 sets of tyres for testing purposes throughout 2014, and for the final test of the year teams had 10 sets of this existing allocation replaced with 10 sets of the new 2015 tyres. Pirelli brought the medium, soft and supersoft 2015 tyres to Abu Dhabi, in their definitive specification. All the teams took up the option of running on the new tyres at some point during the two days, in order to have...
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