Marko Hanželic
Testing in Barcelona continue this week, and the new 18-inch tires were tested for the first time at Red Bullu in Alfa Romeowhile at Alpine exercise after Bahrain in Spain was repeated for the second time.
Alpha Tauri will test the new tires in Styria, Austria, Red Bull, Haas in Aston Martin however, they will be tested at the racetrack in Silverston. Teams Mercedes, McLaren in Ferrari will test the new tires on Hungaroring, so the new tires will be ready by the end of this season, he assures Mario Isola.
The Italian also said they are now in development stagewhen they no longer deal with the construction of the tire itself, but with the compounds: “I can say that we are already at ninety percent of the construction, now we have started testing different mixtures. We already have a new mixture marked C3 ready, which already works perfectly in practice. This is the first representative of the new family that we intend to prepare for next season and with the characteristics that we have adopted together with the racers. ”
In practice, this is supposed to mean that they will the tires overheated less, or that they will be harder to overheat while driving, he adds Island: "Of course, we still have to validate everything when the cars of the 2022 season are actually ready, as we are testing with test cars of this season, which cannot give answers to all questions."
