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Pirelli predicts at least two stops
Posted: Saturday July 30th 2011, 07:08 GMT
Pirelli brought the red super soft and yellow soft tyres to the Hungarian Grand Prix. Pirelli's Paul Hembery was pretty happy after the first practice sessions with the performance of both tyres: "It’s been an interesting day of free practice, where as we expected, we’ve seen that there is about eight-tenths of a second of difference between the soft and the supersoft tyre: a combination that we also used in Monaco and Canada. Nonetheless, the supersoft clearly does have a small advantage, which will mean that those aiming for pole position are going to use it."
Hembery thinks that the 70 lap race will need at least two stops: "Depending on the track and weather conditions, I think we’ll see about 15 laps out of the supersoft tyres during the race and around 25 laps from the soft tyres: we saw them being used for 24 laps today. There are a wide variety of cars looking very competitive, which is going to make the order in qualifying hard to predict. But after analysing our tyre data tonight, we should have a better idea of where everybody is at."
