After Max Verstappen’s win in Spain, Formula 1 quickly moves on to the Spielberg and Austrian Grands Prix, the second of three races currently underway.
Pirelli has confirmed which tires will be used in Austria, marking the third time this year the sprint format has been used after China and Miami. As usual, F1’s official tire supplier offers the three softest dry tire compounds (C3 is hard, C4 is medium and C5 is soft) for the track with the fewest corners (10) and shortest lap times on the F1 calendar. selected.
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Since it is a sprint weekend, the tire allocation will be reduced from 13 sets to 12, with drivers receiving 2 sets of hard (marked in white), 4 sets of medium (marked in yellow) and 6 sets of soft (marked in red). The number of Wet Weather sets remains the same (5 Intermediate and 2 Wet Weather).
“The Spielberg track surface is quite old and therefore very abrasive, but the lateral forces on the tires are clearly below the season average, so wear overall is very limited,” Pirelli read in its Austrian Grand Prix preview.
