Pirelli to provide F1 teams with extra tyres for the United States GP on CoTA – Formula 1 news
Pirelli has decided to provide the F1 teams with an extra set of tyres for the Friday practice session as the United States Grand Prix returns to a new track, Circuit of The Americas (CoTA), after five years.
The track is completely new to the F1 community and all the teams are immensely eager to explore it and so are the Italian tyre manufacturers who have been providing the F1teams with tyres for many years. The decision about the extra tyres was confirmed
so as to help the teams explore the track properly. They also admit that CoTA will be the toughest challenges of the current season for them.
“Austin is one of just three new tracks for us in Formula One competition this year, alongside Bahrain- which we've tested at previously- and Hockenheim, where we previously raced in GP3,” Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery said. “So in many ways
America will be the biggest challenge for us of the year, but stepping into the unknown is a situation that we are used to: last season the majority of tracks were completely new to us.”
Pirelli has decided to use the hard and medium tyre compounds saying that the choice will not mean a boring race as the same combination was used during the Abu Dhabi GP and it had turned out to be an exciting race. They are expecting an amount of energy
to be exerted on the tyre structure, especially on the outside tyres which should be able to bear the corner forces. The temperatures will be high too and therefore the combination they have chosen will work out well.
Hembery believes that the states are an amazing place for the F1 sport. Majority of the fans exist there who are also very enthusiastic. He is very happy that the sport is finally returning to the country and thinks that there could have not been any better
time than the present as Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso will be bringing a strong competition for the F1 title in the second last race of the season.
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