Formula One racing’s official tyre suppliers Pirelli have confirmed the tyre compounds that will be available at the first three Grands Prix of 2014. In Australia, Bahrain and China the teams will use the white-marked medium and yellow-marked soft compounds, while in Malaysia the orange-marked hard and white-marked medium compounds will be used.The Italian tyre company said that the allocations were based not only on the characteristics of each circuit, but on data obtained during pre-season testing. According to Pirelli, there was the no blistering and very little graining of the tyres in Bahrain, plus results of the final test showed ‘an increased performance gap between the...
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