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Pirelli to go soft to spice up F1 – Hembery

Pirelli is aiming to spice up races by leaning towards soft-compound tyre choices as the 2015 season progresses. Having faced intense criticism of its deliberately heavily-degrading tyres of the past, F1's official supplier went notably more conservative for the start of the new ‘power unit' era last year. Pirelli vowed to ramp down that conservatism for this year as experience of the new regulations increases, but chief Paul Hembery acknowledged that the target of mainly three-stop races has yet to be achieved. 'We aim to bring the softer compounds (to races) more and more,' he told Finland's Turun Sanomat newspaper, 'and in particular we want to be using the super-soft. 'Maybe we...
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