Why Pirelli is already doing which Verustapen asked to do this with the C6F1 tire

When Pirelli announced the arrival of a new member of his tire-compound family pre-season, Singapore and Las Vegas were on the list of possible places, where Ultra-Soft C6 tires could be used. This plan was also removed earlier Max Verustapane Made one Notable outbreak after qualifying for Azerbaijan GP,

“You are really better than leaving it at home,” was a summary. The C6 will no longer be seen again this season, although there will be a similar tire next year.

Fans on social media and other online forums often have individuals who argue in favor of soft tires, in belief that they will automatically lead more exciting and unexpected racing. But F1 is a scientific effort as well as a competitive one and C6 is a prime example of the fact that it is clearly simple and clear solution unnatural: it is so soft that it is a challenge to get a single push lap from it.

Also note that the tire allocation for Sao Paulo GP is a step tough this year – because last year Pirelli a step softened and the result was that the most soft choice was “not a viable race tires”.

Some Grands can manage a race stent in prix, but not all, and also a qualifying tires. But this has not been a case with C6.

Where C6 Is Created unexpectedness, it has not done this in an unexpected and always desirable fashion, although it has not claimed Pirelli as a win. Mainly this uncertainty has come in qualifying, where some teams and drivers prefer C5, which is a knock-on impact in the context of compounds they have provided for the race.

so this Does Effect the strategy, although not basically intended. Hence the west of Vastapane.

He said, “I think I should interact with Pireli at some point and they were only asked to leave that tire at home, as it makes the whole weekend very difficult,” he complained. “You have no proper reference to mediums until you qualify. It’s no meaning.

The C6 was designed with the best intentions: to force teams to force teams to make more pitstops in the race, but to show more strategic diversity by making options less clear-cut. Generally, the teams will be default for at least pitstops – usually to guard the position of a track.

To make a multi-stop strategy worthwhile, it must be meaningful faster than a-stopper, and it is a difficult balance to strike. Overshooting, and slowing down the one-stop, will push everyone to stop more than once, denying the profit-because people usually stay at the same time on the same strategies.

For this reason, Vastapane in Baku claims that “it is better to force just a two-stop rather than bringing a tire that is really no sharp” does not stand for inquiries.

The choice of tires for each circuit is based on the demands on rubber, the most impressive factor is the surface abrasion, specific cornering speeds and ambient temperatures. Pirelli has improved the thermal decline characteristics of her tire compounds this year, making it softened a step in many races, but it did not have the desired effect of promoting multi-stop strategies.

C6 made part of the scheme, making a single soft option, but the execution has become slightly flawed. This is not decisively faster than the C5, and has been hard to manage: its peak performance does not last long and a single slide can make the surface temperature a spike beyond its operating range, which stops the grip. In addition, as soon as the surface is heated, it rotates around more than C5, transmitting a disconnecting and confident ambiguity to the driver.

For all these reasons, C6 has been used only on tracks that use the minimum demand on tires, and have been sheltered to roll it into Singapore and Las Vegas. The selection of tires for the remaining rounds was “declared under the change and status quo in early August, when it comes to compound options for the rest of the season”.

Well, it was definitely the time for those who do not wish to use C6 again this year again this year. Or not, since the tire supplier has a window to change its mind till four weeks before the race, C6 has not burnt its bridges enough.

In Baku, Mercedes Director of Trackside Engineering Andrew Showowalin suggested that it would have been better to take a step between hard compounds than being soft.

He said, “If we keep the C5 (as a soft option), then I probably like it, which is a good tire that works,” he said. “And then they actually change the C3 for C1 or something, giving you a tires that is so difficult that it is not a catch. And then no one wants to one-stop it.”

While the C3 “made an one-stop very easy last year (in Baku), C4 did in the last weekend that the C5 did by the C5, on which many drivers run a very long-lasting stent. But will C1 be very difficult?

Pirelli has already used a step between hard compounds in Belgium this season, where the weather prevented a proper assessment. It will try again in Austin and Mexico City.

Meanwhile C6 is not going away – but when it comes back, it needs to be improved.

Pirelli Motorsport manager Mario Isola insisted after Canadian GP, ​​”What I would like for the future is a C6 with more differences with C6.”

“Now it is around two tenth of a second, we need at least half a second. So with the level of decline is even more aggressive that we now have the same to generate different strategies.

“For next year, we are working on C6 with this goal.”