Pirelli’s thrilling tyre allocation for last weekend’s 70th Anniversary Grand Prix tested teams’ and drivers’ abilities to nurse their tyres with the battle resulting in a frenetic strategy fight between the teams. While tyre management has become less important in recent years with most of the races only requiring a single visit of the pit lane, yesterday’s 70th Anniversary Grand Prix has turned into a strategy thriller thanks to the excellent and ambitious tyre allocation provided by Formula One’s sole tyre manufacturer Pirelli. The Milan-based company supplied the trio of C2, C3 and C4 compounds that represented a softer range to that seen at the British Grand Prix on the...
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