Tyre preview: Pirelli delivers thrilling tyre allocation for Spa

F1 Grand Prix, GP Belgium, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps

Method One’s tyre provider Pirelli will present groups and drivers with an thrilling tyre allocation for this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, bringing a number of the softer compounds of their vary to Spa.

After utilizing the three softest compounds eventually weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, groups could have equally gentle compounds to work with as the sector heads to Spa. Pirelli has nominated the the C2 as P Zero White exhausting, C3 as P Zero Yellow medium and C4 as P Zero Purple gentle for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Following the choice tyre allocation that made its debut on the Hungarian Grand Prix, drivers will as soon as once more have 13 units of slick tyres as a substitute of 11 units. Nonetheless, the climate situations may imply that slick tyres will hardly come to motion with rain anticipated to a number of phases of the race weekend.

The tyre choice is similar because it was final 12 months, that means that groups can construct on the information and expertise they gained a 12 months in the past. Nonetheless, it’s an thrilling selection contemplating the character of the 7.004km Spa circuit. The longest monitor on the Method One calendar Francorchamps is a circuit the place the tyres are subjected to appreciable forces.

Essentially the most difficult half for tyres is the compression at Eau Rouge adopted by the climb as much as Raidillon: consisting of a excessive pace left-hand flip, the place the downforce squashes the automotive into the bottom, adopted by one other high-speed right-left kink the place the automotive goes gentle on the high of the hill onto the Kemmel straight.

The circuit additionally had the largest distinction in elevation of any monitor all 12 months. The best level is at Malmedy (round 468 metres above sea stage) whereas the bottom is Paul Frere (round 366 metres above sea stage). That’s a distinction of 102.2 metres: greater than the peak of the Huge Ben clock tower in London.

As for the technique, almost all of the groups opted for a two-stop technique final 12 months with all three compounds having been used all through the 2022 Spa F1 race. Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen lined up 14th on the grid after a penalty however received the race with a fantastic fightback, beginning on the softs after which finishing two stints on the medium.

After comparatively low stress limits on the twisty and sluggish Hungaroring, Pirelli will mandate excessive minimal beginning pressures at Spa which has been a norm for the Milan-based producer on high-speed tracks. For the entrance tyre, the minimal beginning stress might be set at 25.0 psi whereas the rear stress limits might be set at 23.0 psi.

The camber limits might be -2.75° for the entrance tyres and -1.50° for the rear tyres.