The circuit of Portimao will soon be asphalted again. Pirelli says on Thursday morning. The tyre supplier of Formula 1 also expects that the tyres will have a hard time on the Portuguese circuit when the pinnacle of motorsport will be there in October. "Of all the new tracks, Portimao is the toughest for us," Mario Isola told Motorsport.com. Pirelli's top man expects a high degradation of the tyres on the southern European circuit. "The layout is tough and the asphalt will cause a high degradation. They are going to asphalt the circuit again at the end of this month. The goal is that the asphalt should be roughly the same as what we have now, but we know from the past that...
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