What Norris’s last-stint regret tells us about F1’s tyre mastery trick

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The subtle tricks that have emerged to get the most from Formula 1’s current generation of tyres

While Lando Norris’s hopes of victory in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix were effectively derailed by his start, there was equally a phase late on that proved as critical. With the McLaren driver having earned himself a tyre offset against Max Verstappen, the advantage of fresher rubber in the final stint offered him a chance to overhaul the Red Bull for the lead. Norris duly put on a charge and managed to get himself just 2.

As Pirelli’s chief engineer Simone Berra explains, it is all about getting tyres into a window where they perform at their peak. “It's all related to carcass temperature, and then obviously the pressure,” he explained. “There is a sort of inertia for the tyres. “If you have a gentle introduction, carcass temperature and pressure increase progressively.

 

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