Tyre preview for the Australian Grand Prix

System One’s tyre company Pirelli have introduced the 3 softest compounds of its 2024 tyre selection to Melbourne with the C5 compound building its debut at the Australian Grand Prix.

The opening two rounds of the 2024 F1 year, the Bahrain and the Saudi Arabian Grands Prix observed Pirelli provide 4 compounds from the more difficult conclude of its tyre selection. By distinction, Spherical three of the year sees the softest compound make its debut in 2024. It implies that motorists have the C5 compound at their disposal together with the C4 and C3 compounds that will be employed at virtually each individual spherical this year.

This weekend’s tyre decision is a softer range in contrast to final yr, when the C2, C3, and C4 were being preferred, but it is not the 1st time that the softest compound has been found in Melbourne. Back again in 2022, Pirelli introduced the C5 to Albert Park as the smooth nomination (when it was paired with C3 as medium and C2 as really hard, leaving out the C4).

Pirelli indicated that “the determination to go with a softer range was taken immediately after analysing final year’s race, which centred all around the C2 with ten motorists employing it for forty seven of the fifty eight laps, and 3 motorists working it for a lot more than fifty laps.”

The C5 continues to be unaltered from 2023, but it is really the compound that has up to now been employed minimum on the latest technology of autos. It was not nominated for both of the two opening races this yr, and just a hundred and forty kilometres were being included on the softest compound in the 2024 selection for the duration of the one pre-year take a look at in Bahrain from 21-23 February.

Lewis Hamilton was the only driver to total a legitimate prolonged operate with it, whilst the Williams motorists generally employed it for a sequence of in and out laps. Only two other groups, Ferrari and Stake F1, chosen the C5 for the Bahrain take a look at: an abrasive monitor that is not notably suited to the softest compound. So it continues to be anything of an unfamiliar heading into this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix.

As for the system, it is really tough to forecast what is the very best tactic to adhere to. Traditionally, a a person-halt system has been the favoured selection, but incidents can massively affect the way groups tactic the Australian Grand Prix. The 2023 Australian Grand Prix was characterised by several stoppages, which include 3 security autos and 3 crimson flags, with two restarts from the grid and a person rolling restart.

Though overtaking employed to be at a quality all around the Albert Park monitor, it has been not too long ago redesigned to make it a lot more flowing. It is nevertheless tough to overtake on, though not as really hard as it was in the earlier. Together with the tweaks to the monitor, the go to a softer tyre nomination may alter the fastest system and could generate scenarios exactly where the speed change amongst the autos as a consequence of different degrees of tyre overall performance allows overtaking.