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French GP: Race team notes - Pirelli

The Pirelli-sponsored French Grand Prix was held in track temperatures that peaked at 54 degrees centigrade: some of the hottest seen all year. In these extreme conditions, most drivers adopted the same one-stop medium-hard strategy, used by six out of the top seven drivers. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, fifth at the flag, converted to a two-stop strategy in order to take the extra point for fastest lap at the end with the soft tyre. With the rates of wear and degradation expected in the warm conditions in the south of France, all but seven of the drivers started on the medium tyre. Nonetheless, a one-stopper was possible even if starting on the soft tyre, as Red Bull's Pierre Gasly showed....
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