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THE TEAMS GAVE A FREE CHOICE of the GUM blend for this season

Mario Isola, Pirelli’s sports boss, says teams for this season have given up a free choice of tire mix for individual racing weekends.

Photo: HB Press

Change of rules, associated with the coronavirus crisis, meant that teams they could no longer choose the number of certain ones yourself rubber compounds for an individual racer at the racing weekend. This rule is expected to return to its original state before the start of the pandemic this year.

But Mario isola he says the teams told him they have actually preferthat every racer receives the same number individual tire compounds, as was the case last season. “We adopted this solution as a rapid response to the pandemic,”So Italian for the portal autosprint. "But the teams turned to us and said that they were satisfied with this system and that they wanted to maintain it in the future. So it was not our decision to keep him."

Mario Isola, Pirelli's sports boss, revealed that all Formula 1 teams have given up the free choice of the number of individual tire mixes for this season, even though they could do so this year - Photo: HB Press

Sports boss Pirelli continues: “We were told that a fixed choice of individual tire mixes puts all racers in the same condition and gives no one any advantage. In this way, they can plan their own strategies without investing time, energy and resources in thinking about whether it is better to have an additional set of soft, medium or hard mixes. They prefer to work with the tires assigned to them. I don't know if that will change in 2023, but for now," Ends Island.                                                                                       

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