After the week off, Formula One is preparing to restart with the Brazilian Grand Prix. Penultimate appointment of the year, as well as the penultimate picks by Pirelli who, with Mario Isola, reveals the compounds selected for the twenty-first appointment of the season.
| THE TIRES ON THE TRACK At the San Paolo Grand Prix, Pirelli brings the three central compounds. We speak of C2 as P Zero White hard, C3 as P Zero Yellow medium and C4 as P Zero Red soft. The same range was chosen for the races in Austin and Mexico City. Interlagos is the circuit where the third and last F1 Sprint of the season is held, after the previous appointments at the Imola and Spielberg weekends. The Pirelli Pole Position Award is then assigned on Friday at the end of qualifying. The track of the José Carlos Pace racetrack, named after the Brazilian driver of Italian origins, is covered in an anti-clockwise direction. It features fifteen consecutive corners that apply moderately demanding lateral forces to the tyres. The Brazilian race is usually characterized by frequent overtaking and safety car regimes. Another unpredictable variable is the weather which, in previous years, has alternated between torrential rains and sunny days with high temperatures. The teams used different strategies in 2021 but all the drivers on the podium made two pit stops. Winner Lewis Hamilton finished the race on the P Zero White hard, ahead of Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas on the same compound. |
Isola: "Interesting to see the data from Sprint"
As always, the classic presentation by the Motorsport technical area could not be missing Pirelli by Mario Isola.
“Next weekend F1 will be on stage at Interlagos, the shortest circuit in the championship after Monte Carlo and Mexico City. It is a historic track where you turn counterclockwise and fast sectors alternate with sequences of bends to be tackled at medium speed, such as the famous 'S do Senna'. Traction and braking do not particularly affect the tires because the track is very smooth and the absence of slow corners allows the teams to have better control of the degradation on the rear wheels".
“The "Sprint" will be held in Brazil again this year, the last one of the season, and it will be particularly interesting with this car package to see what will happen on the track and, once again, the key role of the different strategies that can be implemented: in 2021 Saturday's grid was split between half on medium compounds and half on softs. Despite the short length of the track, overtaking is very frequent. Just think of Lewis Hamilton, protagonist of a comeback who, with a two-stop strategy, went from tenth position to victory. The current generation of cars and tires can therefore only give us an even more exciting race".
SOURCE: Pirelli F1 Media
