Last year’s British Grand Prix was won with a one-stop medium-hard strategy: the same tactic selected by all three podium finishers (although Max Verstappen, in second, made a late stop for soft tyres and claimed the extra point for fastest lap).
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The famous Maggots and Becketts corners in particular impose big forces on the tyres, caused by lateral acceleration peak in excess of 5g as the drivers sweep through the complex without lifting.
Silverstone is renowned as a high-speed, high-energy circuit. Browse F1 Authentics for exciting memorabilia straight from the racetrack, signed by your favourite drivers. These rear tyres, with a more robust structure but no extra weight and incorporating some of the elements already planned for next year’s 18-inch tyres, will be used from now until the end of the season. The new rear construction that was tested during free practice in Austria will make its race debut in Silverstone. The tyre rules for the grand prix on Sunday remain unaltered, apart from every driver having a free choice of tyres for the start. In Saturday’s sprint qualifying, drivers will have a free choice of tyres with no obligatory pit stop. In Friday qualifying, only the soft tyre can be used but there will be no obligation to start the grand prix on the tyre with which the fastest time was set in Q2. In addition, up to six sets of Cinturato Green intermediates and three sets of Cinturato Blue full wets – in case of wet weather conditions. There will be 12 sets of P Zero slick tyres (instead of 13): two sets of P Zero White hard, four sets of P Zero Yellow medium, and six sets of P Zero Red soft. The allocations are different for the weekends hosting a sprint qualifying. The hardest compounds in the P Zero Formula 1 range have been selected due to the famous demands of the circuit, which puts lots of energy through the tyres.
The tyres nominated are the same as last year’s British Grand Prix (which was the first race of a Silverstone double-header in 2020): C1 as the P Zero White hard, C2 as the P Zero Yellow medium, and C3 as the P Zero Red soft.
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