Pirelli will skip a step in its range of compounds for next weekend's Australian Grand Prix, an unusual tyre nomination representing one of several unknown factors facing F1 teams in Melbourne. Pirelli has assigned its hard C2, medium C3 and soft C5 compounds for Albert Park, with the latter rubber making its race debut in 2022. Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola explains why the tyre supplier chose Melbourne to experiment with a non-continuous selection of compounds. "We decided to opt for the step in the compound nominations because we noticed that there was a relatively small performance gap between the C3 and C4 compounds during development testing," commented Isola. "We...
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