On Friday, the tyre wear rate at the Circuit Of The Americas was found to be extremely high and the bumps on the American circuit will make maintaining the tyres a hugely difficult task for the drivers. Pirelli therefore expects a two-stop result to be more than logical for the teams. The fastest strategy is to start on the yellow mediums, which eight of the top ten drivers will do, and then drive two stints on the hardest tyre. According to the Italian tyre supplier it is just as fast to drive the last stint on the yellow tyre, but then you have to drive longer on the first two sets. For the drivers on the red tyre the quickest option is to drive the white tyre twice after their stint on...
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