Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Pirelli F1 tyres

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It will be really interesting, as they will be going back to multiple 
pit stops and making pit strategy a major part of race strategy, and 
that is what they wanted to go away from by banning refueling.

Carl


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Grahame Reinthal wrote:

> No refueling, but Pirelli are designing the tyres such that the hard
> compound will only last 25 to 30 laps maximum and the soft about 10 to 
> 12
> laps or so. Thus, multiple tyre change pit-stops tyre and lots of
> interesting tyre strategy decisions.  For some circuits, there could
> potentially be 3 or even 4 pit-stops for some teams. Could be 
> interesting.
>
> Cheers,
> Grahame
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Brian Keegan [mailto:bks281 [at] hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, 25 
> February 2011 4:18 AM
> To: Grahame
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: [Ferrari] Bahrain GP is still on!!! (Slight Changes)
>
> So, no refueling again this year I assume? The only pit strategy will 
> be in
> how long it takes
> the teams to change the "tracks" on the interim models right? Has the 
> new
> tire supplier
> (Pirelli?) had enough development time for "hard" and "soft" compound 
> tracks
> yet?
>
> Average race speed will be much lower than last year's I'm guessing.
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