Method guideline for the French Grand Prix

F1 Grand Prix, GP France, Circuit Paul Ricard

On paper, it all appears to be like basic and easy: a two-quit system is the way to tactic today’s French Grand Prix. Nevertheless, the elongated pace restrict zone and opportunity visitors difficulties could trigger head aches to the teams’ main strategists at Spherical twelve of the 2022 FIA Formulation One particular Environment Championship. F1Technical’s Balázs Szabó analyses the attainable race situations about the important system choices.

The extended Paul Ricard observe is a fairly properly-well balanced circuit, exactly where there is a little bit of all the things: rapidly corners and flat-out straights as properly as slower and additional specialized sections. All of that is putting medium-severity strength masses on the tyres, which is why it will make a superior check observe. At twelve metres huge, there are a good deal of choices when it will come to traces and overtaking: all supplying an attention-grabbing obstacle for the motorists.

Tyre degradation often performs a significant issue at the Circuit Paul Ricard. The extended corner in Sector three set large masses on the entrance tyres, producing the circuit a entrance-constrained observe. Taking into consideration the warmth wave that defines at the moment the climate situations in Europe, today’s race will be a really tough one particular for the strategists to take care of.

On paper, the scorching situations are probably to place the groups to a two-stopper, despite the fact that a one particular-stopper is not out of the query. The purpose is that the time reduction throughout a pit quit is sizeable which has been designed even even bigger soon after FIA race director Eduardo Freitas experienced elongated the pace restrict zone on Thursday.

Pirelli thinks that the most effective two-quit system would be to commence on the medium tyre which presents most choices, as this could be adopted by two stints on the really hard, or a central stint on the really hard adopted by a remaining stint on the medium once again.

The principal issue choosing the system will of course be the person compounds that every single driver has remaining in his race allocation.

A one particular-stopper may possibly not be difficult but it is more difficult to attain with additional administration expected. In which scenario, it would be medium to really hard – or alternatively, really hard to medium with a extended initially stint.

Pirelli’s Motorsport Director Mario Isola commented: “On paper, a one particular-stopper from medium to really hard is basically theoretically swiftest, but I nonetheless imagine that most groups will be aiming for a two stopper, most probably utilizing the medium and the really hard tyres.

„It’s attention-grabbing to take note that of the frontrunners, Leclerc is the only one particular to have one particular established of hards and two sets of medium tyres remaining for the race: his immediate rivals largely have two sets of hards and just one particular established of mediums. So it is probably that we will see some distinct procedures, in situations that are heading to be possibly hotter than now,” the Italian concluded.