Looking at the hard tyre selections, what's the point of having the hard tyre?
Currently each driver must use at least two different dry weather compounds during the race (including one set of the mandatory race tyre), and drivers who make it to Q3 must start the race with the tyres they set their fastest Q2 lap on.
Why not leave it exactly as is, but have two mandatory tyres; and either make both the hard and medium tyre mandatory for all races, or make the hard tyre mandatory for all races and have Pirelli select either the soft or medium as the alternate mandatory tyre.
Having a mandatory hard tyre would test the drivers more in terms of having to deal with a less grippy tyre, and with the hard tyre being slower, it would provide greater scope for a two stop race, which is what we saw in China where the hard tyre was quite a deal slower than the medium.
Favouring the first option would also advantage the mid-field teams, in that the softs would likely still be the favoured tyre of the top teams in Q2, which would thus force them into a two stop race. Those teams in the mid-filed could run a medium or hard in Q2 and try a one stop race.
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Looking at the hard tyre selections, what's the point of having the hard tyre?
Currently each driver must use at least two different dry weather compounds during the race (including one set of the mandatory race tyre), and drivers who make it to Q3 must start the race with the tyres they set their fastest Q2 lap on.
Why not leave it exactly as is, but have two mandatory tyres; and either make both the hard and medium tyre mandatory for all races, or make the hard tyre mandatory for all races and have Pirelli select either the soft or medium as the alternate mandatory tyre.
Having a mandatory hard tyre would test the drivers more in terms of having to deal with a less grippy tyre, and with the hard tyre being slower, it would provide greater scope for a two stop race, which is what we saw in China where the hard tyre was quite a deal slower than the medium.
Favouring the first option would also advantage the mid-field teams, in that the softs would likely still be the favoured tyre of the top teams in Q2, which would thus force them into a two stop race. Those teams in the mid-filed could run a medium or hard in Q2 and try a one stop race.