Sunday, October 30, 2011

Pirelli predicts intriguing qualifying

Pirelli director of motorsport Paul Hembery thinks teams are going to face an 'interesting challenge' with tyre strategies in qualifying because of the big time difference between the two compounds. The Italian tyre maker has brought the soft and the hard compound for the inaugural event in India, and early data has suggested that there could be as big a gap as two seconds per lap in pace disparity between the two types of tyre. Such a time difference could force even the fastest of teams to use up a valuable set of soft rubber in Q1 - which could leave them unable to save new sets for the race, but also make it harder for teams at the back of the grid to get within the mandatory 107 per cent limit

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/pirelli-predicts-intriguing-qualifying/

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