Pireli aims to change on F1 tires that no one wants to use

On the speed of racing, one of one Pirelli’s blue-sidewall ‘weight’ tire You can displace an notable 85 liters of water per second. The problem is that you are more likely to see a blue moon, which is operating an F1 weight tire at racing speed.

The F1 is being displaced by that volume of water on all four corners of the car, adding to a lot of spray, so the types of conditions that play for a set of special skills of wet tires usually results in a red flag. This is a situation that has been played on many occasions in recent years, the most absurd in Belgium in 2021 and the most recent in Sao Paulo last year. In the Brazilian race, drivers preferred to wait for unavoidable stagnation rather than renounced the position of the track by pitting for the weights, walking around the intermediate.

Pirelli focuses for the next generation tires, which will be fitted for all new cars next year, taking the performance of the weight tire closer to the intermediate. Currently, it manipulates more time in anything other than red-flag-upperran conditions and lowers-in the world, it has only seen the service once this season, and then briefly only when only when it is briefly only when only when it has seen one time in this season. Carlos Sainz Sheep with blue walls ran on myself Williams In Miami Sprint.

“I am confident that we are now in a very good position,” said Mario Isola, manager of Pirelli Motorsport. “The intermediate tires were already defined more or less (to 2026). We have to validate some new solutions of extreme wet.

“Especially now is trying to make a crossover (point between wet and intermediate) in a different position than now. To make the highly wet tire more useful. Not only the security car, but also a proper race tire.

“We know the issue with extreme wet is visible anyway. Therefore, we are not going to fix the issue. But both intermediate and wet are fine now.”

Calm for 2026 wet and intermediate compounds was the attention of a pirelli test FerrariLate last week with Firano Circuit Charles Lakeler And Zhou GunauBoth used a ‘mule car’ to simulate the possible loading inspired by the next generation cars. Its negative side is that the process is fundamentally disabled by using mule cars, and the summer season failed to obey the summer season.

The ideal ‘crossover point’ is quite subtle when one becomes more favorable than the other in a tire changing conditions. Typically, the point at which it becomes wet enough to transform from slix to intermediate, when lap time slows down at 112% dry speed. The previous generation of Pirelli weight became a usable proposal at only 120% of the point.

For this season, Pirelli introduced a new specification of wet tires, in which a separate compound intended to be less thermally sensitive, and a new moving pattern that aims to make less movement under the lateral load. But it was unable to test the new season as ahead of the new season and the new tire proved a crossover in an area of ​​118%-116% of the target of the Restrier, but no cigars. For 2026, the Italian manufacturer is trying again.

“Now this (crossover between intermediate and wet) is 118% (of dry season laptym),” Isola said. “We would like to go up to 116% or 115%, something like that.”