F1 drivers told to change driving style amid 2024 tyre safety concerns

Pirelli has hit back at driver safety concerns relating to F1’s planned tyre blanket ban in 2024. 
F1 drivers told to change driving style amid 2024 tyre safety concerns

F1 wants to remove tyre warmers from the sport on sustainability grounds but official sign off on t𝄹he ban is pending further testing and a vote from 🐼the teams. 

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After participating in Pirelli’s most recent tyre test at Barcelona, Mercedes driver 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell warned🍸: “I don’t think we as a sport are at a position to bring these tyres into a racing scenario”.

But Russell’s concerns have been rejected by Pirelli, who have suggested that drivers will need to adapt 𓂃their driving styles. 

“Obviously drivers need to think about the 🎃fact that not using the blankets is different than today, so they need to approach the out-lap in a different way,” Pirelli en🌳gineer Simone Berra said. 

“In cold conditions, it coul🍎d be trickier to bring the tyres up to temperature but it’s just a matter of doing the first portion of the lap [cautiously].

“In the first sector, generally we can see much more difference compared to other sectors because already sector 2 and 3 are in line with the laptimes with the blankets, so it’s just a matter of manag🧸ing the first few corners.

“But in terms of safety, 💙I don’t see from the data any specific risk.

“You need to change the way you are driving in the first lap, you have to adapt the driving style to ꩵprotect the tyres because you can generate graining if you push too much 🦄in the first corners and the tyres are not up to temperature.

“I respect driver opinion, that’s for sure, but obviously ඣthere will be differences compared to the old product and the [current] tyไre management.”

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