Friday, April 8, 2011

Pirelli, F1 tires decisive in Malaysia

While waiting to witness the response of the qualifications that they see Red Bull and McLaren challenge for pole position, many teams are already thinking of the greatest formula in the tender and the best way to use Pirelli tires in the hot Malaysian GP. At Sepang, the Italian manufacturer has announced the debut of the shell likely to rain.

"We are very pleased with our debut in Australia, but Malaysia will be a very different challenge because of the high temperatures that meet - said Paul Hembery, head of Pirelli Motorsports Racing Team - in Malaysia it is very likely that we will have three to four changes rubber. Our tires can take to the track wet for the first time and play a key role during the weekend.

" For the second Grand Prix season Pirelli brought to Malaysia two types of coverage, a hard and soft, which was added a harder compound that pilots have been able to test in the first free practice. "Today, pilots have experienced the evolution of our tires hard - explains Hembery - and their response was generally favorable, although we must be careful not to end up with tires too conservative." Now all the attention on the qualifications and are betting on the race, when you really start to get serious and may limit the emergence of new cars and covers: "All have faced extremely harsh conditions on the first day on the track.

Fortunately, our tires so far have had no problems - continued Hembery - but of course the real work begins when the drivers will drive their cars in qualifying trim and race. "

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