Pirelli unveil 2013 F1 tyre range which promise more uncertainty during race (+Video)

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Formula One's official tyre suppliers Pirelli have unveiled new range of F1 tyres for the 2013 season, which is aimed at producing more pit stops and increasing overtaking.
Both the dry-weather and wet-weather tyres have been revised with compounds becoming softer, the structure of the tyres more flexible and the shoulder of the tyres reinforced. The softer compounds mean that the new hard tyre

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Pirelli - Technical tyre notes for the 2012 Singapore Grand Prix

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Pirelli’s P Zero Yellow soft tyres and P Zero Red supersoft have been nominated for the Marina Bay circuit in Singapore, the only race of the year that takes place at night. This produces some unusual variables, with the Formula One paddock living on European time (as every session takes place six hours later than it does usually) and ambient and track temperatures that tend to fall, rather

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Pirelli - Technical tyre notes for the 2012 Italian Grand Prix

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Monza is popularly known as ‘the temple of speed’, being the fastest circuit on the Formula One calendar, but to everyone at Pirelli it just means ‘home’.The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza is situated just half an hour’s drive from the company’s Milan headquarters in the Royal Villa of Monza Park and having been inaugurated in 1922 it is one of the oldest circuits of Formula One history.The current

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Pirelli - Technical tyre notes for the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Following the month-long summer break, Pirelli returns to action with the P Zero Silver hard tyre and P Zero White medium: a combination that has not been raced since the second grand prix of the season in Malaysia.The conditions at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit will be somewhat different however. The 7.004-kilometre lap is the longest of the entire year by some margin, and this is just

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F1 on holiday, Pirelli "No" to tyre war and Lotus' ‘double DRS’ at Spa

Monday, August 6, 2012

Formula one is officially on holidayA gentleman’s agreement between the 12 competing teams means every factory has closed its doors and sent home its staff for a full 14 day period.“What can you do during this period? Nothing, absolutely nothing,” Autosprint’s Alberto Antonini wrote.McLaren was the first to shut down, closing its doors at Woking on midnight after the Hungarian grand prix. Red

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