F1 is to trial a revised qualifying format subsequent season by which using all three tyre compounds will be necessary.
As F1 bosses proceed to tinker with the foundations, it’s understood that the format, which will likely be trialled at a two races subsequent season – although not at these the place the Dash format is for use – will see the present tyre guidelines ‘tweaked’.
This yr, in a transfer which has thus far proved to be well-liked, the rule whereby the highest ten qualifiers needed to begin on the identical tyres used for his or her quickest lap in Q2, was scrapped, which means a free selection on race day – one of many constructive strikes to come back out of the Dash format.
Nonetheless, the format that’s to be trialled subsequent yr will see drivers solely allowed to make use of the onerous compound in Q1, the medium in Q2 and the softs in Q3.
The format is bound to lift many questions, not least the flexibility to get the hards, and in some instances the mediums, as much as the required temperature within the time accessible.
Moreover, the entire idea of qualifying, whereby drivers push from the outset, to not point out technique, would exit the window.
Following Tuesday’s assembly of the F1 Fee, it was revealed that at two occasions subsequent season there can be a trial geared toward lowering the tyre allocation from 13 units to 11.
This may be completed to guage the impression of the discount in tyre allocation on track-running, with the general intention to maneuver to extra sustainable use of tyres sooner or later.
The intention is to cut back the variety of units of softs accessible from the present 8 to 4, whereas 4 units of mediums can be accessible as a substitute of the present three, and the variety of hards elevated from two to a few.
