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Pirelli: Austria should encourage varied pit stop strategies

In the space of less than a week, we go directly from one of the longer laps on the Formula 1 calendar (in France) to the shortest, in terms of overall lap time, in Austria: the first back-to-back of the season. One lap of the Red Bull Ring takes only just over a minute to cover, and with the fastest-ever lap there set in qualifying last year (1m03.130s) we could see the benchmark lowered even further this weekend. Pirelli is bringing the C2 as the white hard tyre, C3 as the yellow medium, and C4 as the red soft choice in Austria. Track Characteristics The Red Bull Ring, which returned in the F1 calendar in 2014 in its current guise, consists of 4,318 metres of up and down smooth asphalt...
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