Pirelli are confident in their new tyres for the 2017 season, despite not being able to test their new rubber in hot weather conditions. “We’re pretty confident that we’ve made a good step and we believe it’s going to be a very interesting year for the history of Formula One,” Pirelli’s Motorsport Director Paul Hembery told Formula Spy at the Autosport Show. Hot weather testing in Bahrain was considered an appropriate trial for the new rubber, but teams wanted to keep the entirety of pre-season testing in Barcelona to cut costs; which Hembery still believes is not the correct decision. “I understand the reason why the majority of teams didn’t want to go [to Bahrain]....
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