Photo by: www.kymillman.com/F1 It isn’t even 2019 yet but Pirelli have already nominated the tire compounds for the first four races of the season. Given the need for a 14-week advance notice for fly-away races, the announcement came this week. You may recall that Pirelli are doing away with the complicated naming system and moving to a simple soft, medium, hard tire nomenclature but underneath that simplified veneer exists a more sophisticated tire compound range starting at C1 through C5 with the “5” being the softest in the range. If Pirelli brought a C2, C4 and C5, they would still be termed, soft, medium and hard tire compounds. This will make it easier to identify for fans and...
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