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Pirelli back-up compounds designed to be like 2016 tyres
Pirelli's back-up compounds for the 2017 Formula 1 season are designed to be similar to last year's high-degradation tyres, the Italian firm has indicated. When Pirelli announced its compound choices for the first races of the 2017 campaign, it revealed it had created a range of back-up tyres, made using “more traditional criteria” than its new rubber. This year’s wider tyres are designed to degrade less and allow drivers to push harder over a race distance, unlike the rubber which has been used since 2011 that was introduced to spice up the show. Speaking during Pirelli’s launch event in Turin this week, Pirelli F1 racing manager Mario Isola confirmed that the back-up tyres had...
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