News Details

F1 drivers pushing for hard tyre axe

Formula 1 drivers will reportedly lobby official tyre supplier Pirelli to drop the hardest tyres from its 2017 compound range. The Italian marque's hard compound selection for Barcelona has been controversial this weekend. 'Pirelli has been perhaps a little too conservative,' said Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. 'The tyres here are too hard.' Earlier, Pirelli explained that it elected to take harder tyres to the Spanish grand prix after seeing the downforce data about the teams' car upgrades. Daniel Ricciardo said: 'In the drivers' briefing we brought up the tyres because we would prefer not to have these hard tyres anymore — at any track. 'We're supposed to use them in Silverstone but...
Full Story »
8y ago from ThisIsF1.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Felipe Massa: Hard tyre choice a ‘joke’

Williams driver Felipe Massa says Pirelli’s decision to bring the...
8y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Unusual tyre gap opens way for unpredictable Spanish GP

A highly-unusual two-second per lap difference between the soft and medium...
8y ago from Motorsport.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Long Beach to bring in new leadership for iconic event

Organizers of the annual Grand Prix of Long Beach event have announced...

Pato O’Ward joined by F2 champion in McLaren F1...

McLaren has announced its driver development program lineup for 2026,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

“One of the best news of this weekend”, “King is...

Arsenal fans are delighted to see Cristhian Mosquera included in the...
2h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Nottingham Forest v Arsenal: Premier League – live

Premier League updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-off<br>⚽ <a...
3h ago from TheGuardian.com

'Seen as inevitable' – Worrying Arsenal update...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is reportedly attracting interest from big...
6h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.