Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery has said that the company are aiming to bring the number of pit stops per race down in time for the British Grand Prix on June 30 following Sunday’s pit stop-dominated race in Spain. The Italian manufacturer has helped to promote some fantastic racing since becoming Formula One racing’s official tyre supplier in 2010, but Hembery admitted that the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España 2013 at Barcelona - won by Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso on a four-stop strategy - featured too many stops. “Our aim is to have (each car make) between two and three stops at every race, so it’s clear that four is too many: in fact,...
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