Pirelli has confirmed its tyre-compound choices for the 2021 Formula 1 season. The compounds have been selected by considering careful inputs which are based on last year's approach.
In the past, Pirelli usually decided which tyre compounds to choose prior few weeks time that is, before the actual race, however, due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, Pirelli has bent this rule to meet the shorter window for selection without committing any sort of error.
Pirelli's head of F1 and car racing Mario Isola talks about the compound choices for 2021: "Announcing all the selections for the year right now will help the teams and the drivers with their planning, also allowing for maximum flexibility just in case the calendar has to change due to Covid-19 restrictions, as we saw last year."
As we have witnessed in the past, Pirelli usually selects a soft, medium and a hard compound for the F1 season however, their application usually changes according to the demands of each circuit.
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We have received news that softer rubber will be taken to Baku and Brazil.
Isola added: "The selections themselves are on the whole similar to last year (or 2019, in the case of races not run in 2020), which means that teams should have plenty of data to fall back on - but we have two races where the nominations are softer.
"The first is Azerbaijan, where our C2 hard tyre wasn't used last time, so we are now going with the softest selection of all: C3, C4 and C5.
"Then we have Brazil, where we will take the C2, C3 and C4 this year, as the C1 that was selected as the hardest choice last time didn't show a particularly big advantage in terms of wear over the medium.
"In both cases, the softer nomination could lead to a greater variety of race strategies".
It has been confirmed that like last year, drivers will have the same sets available at the start of the weekend, which will be two hards, three mediums and eight softs.
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