Pirelli completes crucial final tyre test at Silverstone

Just days after the British Grand Prix, Formula One’s sole tyre producer Pirelli concluded a crucial final tyre test that befell on the identical venue at Silverstone.

The breaking information from the exams revolved round eight-time F1 race winner Daniel Ricciardo, who will make a shock return to Formula One, changing Nyck de Vries from the Hungarian Grand Prix. The former Formula E and Formula 2 champion was ousted from the Italian workforce after simply ten races into his debut season as a full-time F1 driver.

However, the tyre test was not solely necessary for Red Bull to evaluate Ricciardo’s present type, nevertheless it was crucial for Pirelli in addition to it held a crucial final test session with its 2024 tyres. The Milan-based tyre producer was labored with Haas, Red Bull and Williams for 2 days, evaluating their 2024 F1 tyres that don’t require heating blankets.

Red Bull labored with Daniel Ricciardo on each days whereas Haas nominated Kevin Magnussen for the primary and test driver Pietro Fittipaldi for the second day of operating. At Williams, it was Alexander Albon to get behind the wheel of the FW45 on the opening day whereas the second day was the flip of Logan Sargeant.

In whole, over 3000kms have been clocked with the 2024 tyre at Silverstone with Day 1 operating on partly moist floor and Day 2 operating in considerably higher climate situations.

Following the test, Pirelli’s Head of Motorsport, Mario Isola commented: “They have been two days of very intense testing and I wish to thank the groups and drivers concerned for his or her help.

“The variable climate, particularly on the primary day, made the job tougher than we anticipated, because the asphalt situations weren’t as constant as we’d have favored, however we tried to profit from the time accessible — for instance, to check the conduct of the brand new intermediate tires.”

The Italian said that Pirelli’s engineers shall be now analysing the info they collected throughout this yr’s test periods earlier than the F1 Commission makes its final determination on whether or not the brand new tyres make their method into the game.

“Now comes crucial a part of the work: the evaluation of the info on the unpreheated compounds, which shall be in contrast with the info collected in earlier exams.

“It is on the premise of this information that the F1 Commission – which incorporates the FIA, F1 and the ten groups concerned within the championship – should resolve on July 31 whether or not to introduce slick tires with out preheating beginning in 2024, inserting them on the identical degree because the rain tires, which have not required tire heaters because the Monaco GP, and the intermediate tires, which is able to debut at the primary Grand Prix subsequent season,” Isola concluded.