You are limited in how many tires you can use every weekend. Teams can use them however they want though. Wet tires have no limit. Learned that two weeks ago.
That is because the FIA has set the rule of same number of sets. As per the fixed number for the slick tyres, each F1 driver will have eight sets of the soft (red) compound, three of medium (yellow) and two of hard (white).
Basically is the entire race just “Hope Hamilton messes up?” I wanna get into it but most races are Groundhog Day.
https://formularapida.net/fia-revea...tyre-grid-along-with-other-technical-changes/
If you run out of one then you have to choose out of the other two types you have left.
It does appear to be a one (or should I say two) horse race between the two Mercedes but exciting as hell never the less.
So much going on. If you want to get into F1 start as I did with the two seasons on Netflix. You’ll become obsessed after watching those.
Another thing to note is that teams have to start the race with the tires they used in Quali 2. So some take a gamble with going on a harder compound and try to get to Q3 so they can do a longer first stint before pitting in the race.Also, every car is required to race on two different compounds (soft-hard, medium-hard, or soft-medium) during the race. This restriction is waived if it is a wet race. In years past, teams were able to choose their tire allocation, but this season every team gets the same number of soft, medium, and hard tires. I assume that is all covered in the link, but that is the short version if you don't want to click through.
You are limited in how many tires you can use every weekend. Teams can use them however they want though. Wet tires have no limit. Learned that two weeks ago.
Absolutely wild last three laps. Why in the world did Red Bull pit? Verstappen would have won. Mercedes fell apart at the end.
Helmut is having a chat with the management right nowCalculated gamble. 2nd place was a lock so fastest lap extra point.
I wouldn’t have done it but I’m not a team mgr
Yeah i get the fastest lap gamble but at the time he started to box Hamilton already had his shredded tire issue.