It was unusually hot on the Spa-Francorchamps track during qualifying this Saturday: over 40\u00b0C. Paul Hembery, Pirelli’s motorsport director, explained the resulting gap between soft and medium tires: With a significant performance gap between the medium and soft compounds and a fairly high expected degradation, there are a wide variety of strategies here at Spa.<\/p>\n
Since the weather is expected to remain dry this Sunday, two or three pit stops are possible for the teams: \u00ab The fastest strategy on paper for a 44-lap race is theoretically to stop twice (starting on softs, pit on lap 15 for softs, pit on lap 30 for mediums). However, some drivers might try a three-stop strategy (softs-softs-softs-mediums) to deliver a sprint race, limit tire degradation, and gain positions on track. But that depends on the characteristics of each car and the traffic on track \u00bb.<\/p>\n
It should be noted that it has been twenty years since a race has been run entirely in dry conditions at Spa-Francorchamps. And the weather forecasts imply a possibility of rain later in the day. But will it be before or after the end of the race?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the race in Belgium this Sunday, Pirelli estimates that a two-stop strategy will be the fastest. A three-stop strategy is nevertheless conceivable to limit tire degradation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":39353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[92,1237,1494],"class_list":["post-13017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-bilan","tag-pirelli","tag-spa-francorchamps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n