Official tire supplier Pirelli has announced the number of tires each driver can use in the 2022 F1 Round 3 Australian Grand Prix final.
Pirelli has nominated a compound that skipped the third round of the Albert Park Circuit C2 (hard), C3 (medium), C5 (soft) and C4. In the final, it is mandatory to use either hard or medium set.
Also, at the 2022 F1 World Championship, the “Q2 tire rule” that the top 10 drivers must start with the tires that set the time in qualifying Q2 was abolished. All drivers are now free to choose their starting tires. This further complicates the strategy.
The fastest strategy for the Australian Grand Prix, competing in 58 laps, is a medium to hard 1-stopper. However, there are still unpredictable factors. Albert Park is constantly evolving its repaved road surface. Also, in the semi-permanent circuit near the wall, there is a high possibility that the safety car will be dispatched, and there is a possibility that the strategy will be completely reset.
Mario Isola (Pirelli Motorsports Director)
“We witnessed a long and exciting qualifying session. Many times the front runners were only 1/1000 second apart and Paul decided in the last few seconds. As expected, the driver from the beginning of today. I used soft tires to the end and took advantage of that extra speed. Not only that, the driver was able to complete multiple flying laps on it to get the best performance. This is this afternoon. It was previously established by extensive practice in free practice early in the day. At that time it was quite windy and the wind direction was different compared to Friday, so the car moves more snappy and reveals aerodynamic performance. Influential. What we’ve seen so far in the qualifying shows that it was the right choice to come here in two steps between the soft compound and the medium compound. We were able to make the performance gap between medium and soft almost equal. Tomorrow should be a one-stop strategy with medium and hard, but as we saw today, the action here is totally unpredictable. May be ”
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