News Details

Russian GP: Qualifying team notes - Pirelli

With Pirelli bringing a softer range of tyres to Russia than last year, the teams will have to manage the soft tyre in particular carefully this weekend. Although the soft has held up well, there's potentially a big advantage in starting on the medium compound as it provides more flexibility: as the frontrunners demonstrated in qualifying. While a one-stopper is set to be chosen by most drivers tomorrow, there is a wide variety of strategic permutations using all three compounds. Only the Red Bull of Max Verstappen and Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas will start on the medium compound in the top 10 of the grid, from second and third. The cars immediately behind them - as well as Hamilton on...
Full Story »
3y ago from Pitpass.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Pirelli's Mario Isola: 'Softer tyres will provide...

Pirelli's head of F1 and Car Racing Mario Isola believes that the softer...

Pirelli comes with aggressive tyre choice: Advantage...

For the Russian Grand Prix, Pirelli opted remarkably enough for soft...
3y ago from GPBlog.com

Russian GP: Preview - Pirelli

Two weeks after the three hardest tyres in the range were used at...
3y ago from Pitpass.com

Hamilton On Pole For Russian GP But Likely To Struggle...

Lewis Hamilton has taken pole position for the Russian Grand Prix at...
3y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

F1 owner Liberty Media set to finalise purchase of...

Formula 1 owner Liberty Media are in talks to buy Madrid-based company...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Kalle quickest in Safari shakedown

Reigning WRC champion Kalle Rovanperä set the benchmark time in Wednesday...
10h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

He comes from Portugal- now how does he play for...

Over the last few seasons, Arsenal have been able to create a strength in...
2h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.