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Pirelli to boost tyre pressures to cope with Zandvoort banking
Pirelli will have no other choice but to boost tyre temperatures next year at Zandvoort given the banked configuration of the Dutch track's final corner. Formula 1 will return to Zandvoort's dunes next season for the first time since 1985. While the legendary circuit's layout will remain largely unchanged, the track's final right-hand 'Arie Luyendijk' sweep will be modified and feature an 18° banking! "The corner will be banked 32 percent," said Zandvoort CEO Robert van Overdijk. "So the difference in height from the bottom of the corner to the top will be around 4½ metres. That's considerable." Magnussen: Teams critical of 2020 tyres to gain an edge Indeed, the...
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