Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli believes a one-stop strategy will be the quickest way of approaching Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Pirelli has brought the C2 (Hard), C3 (Medium) and C4 (Soft) tyres to the six-kilometre Baku City Circuit, which does not feature many high-speed turns that over-stress the rubber. Pirelli has outlined that a Soft/Medium approach, pitting on lap 25 of 51, is the optimum strategy, but that a Medium/Soft strategy, stopping on lap 26, is also a strong option. However it has stressed that there is a “wide window for the pit stop, which means that both strategies could be deployed at any point between laps 15 onwards without loss of performance.”...
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