In the meeting of the ‘F1 Commission’ held yesterday in London, a new regulation was unanimously approved that will be tested in two races next season.
Liberty Media is very active on the sustainability front, and among the various ideas under consideration, the idea of reducing the tire sets available to each driver on race weekends was welcomed. In the two Grand Prixs that will be selected for the experiment, the sets of tires will increase from 13 to 11, a novelty that will impact the qualifying format.
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The reduction in the number of sets available aims to limit the use of soft tires (currently seven trains) and to achieve the objective the use of tires to be used in qualifying will be changed with the following criterion: in Q1 it will be mandatory to use hard tires , in medium Q2 and soft Q3. Initially, Pirelli’s proposal was rejected by some teams, but during the Imola weekend even the opposing teams agreed to try it all out in two Grands Prix next season.
The Milanese manufacturer aimed to bring forward the two ‘test’ races to this year in order to be able to make the necessary assessments in view of a definitive insertion of the format starting from 2023, but some teams expressed themselves negatively, preferring to postpone everything by twelve. months.
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