flexcon wrote: ↑30 Jul 2019, 12:22
Can anyone explain why Bottas would have just 1 set of hards? So this means in the race when they throw off their softs or mediums from the first stint, it will be Bottas's first time on the hard - period. Like is that not strange? The tyre you will spend the most time on during the race, you don't bother to run once prior.
Not totally uncommon : teams pile on the softs for FP3 and quali, and then you really need 1 set of hard and 1 set of mediums for most races.
And then you split between drivers : one of them takes an extra set of medium to test in FP2, the other takes an extra set of hard to test in FP2, and that way they have max number of Softs per driver while still having tested all tyres on long runs in FP2 to feed their strategy.