Modern Formula 1 is all about tyres. More now than ever. Heavy, super-powerful cars loaded with more downforce than any before can overwhelm the tyre quite easily. When that challenge is magnified by driving around a circuit full of high-speed, long duration corners, the tyre becomes even more disproportionately important.
When the Circuit de Catalunya dispenses with the previous slow section at the end of the lap and the final turn becomes a flat-out seventh gear blast, well…Tyre performance, getting the left-front to stay alive in the race, getting it to wake up for one lap of qualifying on a cool track – two conflicting demands – was way more important even than downforce...
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