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Pirelli's Isola expects a return to two-stop races in 2018
Speaking in the wake of last week's post-race tyre test, Pirelli‘s F1 racing manager, Mario Isola has reiterated the Italian tyre marque's confidence of a return of two-stop races in 2018. Following a regulation change in 2017 that brought about increased cornering speeds and a wider profile of tyre (60mm wider than 2016 at the front and 80mm wider at the back), Pirelli has openly conceded that the two unknowns led the outfit to go overly conservative with the compounds. Races in 2017 have almost exclusively been one-stop affairs and predominantly saw the hardest of the three compounds available left unused on the tyre-racks. In a bid to target more degradation for 2018, and in an...
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