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Mercedes plays it safe with Singapore tyre selection
Mercedes has gone more conservative with its tyre choice for the Singapore Grand Prix than any other team. Pirelli is offering up its new pink hypersoft tyre again for the race, but the Silver Arrows appear to be unconvinced that it will last the course at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. Teams get to take 13 sets of tyre in total to each event. They get one set of each available compound by default, and can then choose how they allocate the rest. For Singapore, the compounds on offer are soft, ultrasoft and hypersoft. The supersoft tyres are skipped over to make for a bigger step between the prime and the option tyre, with the hypersofts being treated as a 'qualifying' compound. But many...
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