Pirelli will assess a special prototype front tyre in Barcelona which could be used at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
Pirelli’s new tyre has been engineered to cope with the specific load factors that F1 teams will encounter at the Dutch track where two corners have been reprofiled to feature an 18-degree incline.
The banking of the Turn 4 Hugenholtzbocht and the final right hand Arie Luyendijkbocht will no doubt get the drivers’ attention and Pirelli wants to make sure its tyres will be up to the task of handling the track’s specific constraints.
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“I’m going to tell the teams that we’re going to test prototype front tyres in the next session,” explained Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola.
“This prototype had been designed with a slightly different construction because we are still analysing data coming from Zandvoort.
“We made some analysis on the banking, and the plan is to use these tyres with a slightly higher pressure.
“So in preparation for that, because we are not fully aware of everything, we do not have final data on the circuit, on the tarmac roughness and so on, the idea is also to test a slightly different construction here. It’s working in a slightly different way – it’s more resistant.”
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