Components 1 heads to the Autodromo Jose Carlos Tempo for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix and a weekend of Dash motion – and Pirelli have confirmed the tyres that shall be in play for the occasion.
F1’s official tyre suppliers will present the C3 compound because the laborious, the C4 because the medium and the C5 because the delicate at Interlagos – a softer trio of compounds than these dropped at Brazil final yr – with the entire 4.309km observe having not too long ago been completely resurfaced, together with the pit lane, growing its abrasiveness.
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As it’s a Dash weekend, the allocation of tyres drops from 13 units to 12, with drivers getting two units of the hards (marked white), 4 of the mediums (marked yellow) and 6 of the softs (marked purple). The variety of moist climate units stays the identical (5 intermediate and two moist).
“The observe floor shall be a totally unknown issue for drivers and groups this weekend,” say Pirelli. “Complicating the puzzle nonetheless additional is the very fact Pirelli has chosen to deliver a softer trio of compounds to Brazil than final yr.
“On high of that it’s a Dash weekend, so that there’s solely free apply session for groups to seek out one of the best set-up, even when, as was seen in Austin, the ‘brief’ race the truth is proved to be very helpful to superb tune the stability of the automobile for the precise Grand Prix.
