“A new tyre allocation for qualifying [known as ATA, or ‘Alternative Tyre Allocation’] will be tried out for the first time, with the obligation to use just the Hard in Q1, Medium in Q2 and Soft in Q3 if conditions stay dry,” explained Isola.
The important bit.
I was thinking this could have an impact on strategy in the race because of how teams run qualifying. Sometimes teams don’t have new tyres of a specific compound (usually softs) for the race and I thought this would make that less likely to happen, but apparently the total number of available sets for the weekend will go down from 13 to 11 as well.
I guess this will add some variation across the sessions? Maybe there will be more surprises in Q3.
I’m not sure this will make things more intresting…
Agreed. I’m not against the change in and of itself, but I completely fail to see the “why” behind it.
Well Q1 could be interesting if the hards take too long to heat up or if they last long enough to set multiple fast laps without pitting.
Definitely an issue at Monaco. Not sure about other tracks.
Why? Because change justifies position. It doesn’t matter that its not broke and there is no reason to change.
Engineers always like breaking things that only they can fix.
Source: Am an engineer.
They should just give one set of extreme wets per driver for all 3 sessions, that would spice things up
the Italian tyre manufacturer will offer only 11 sets of tyres for the three-day event at the Hungaroring
Down from…?
"The ATA also saves two sets of dry tyres compared to the traditional format [using 11 sets instead of 13)] and it will be run again at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza.
Lol, turns out there’s text below this block. I’m so used that they put those ‘read more’ blocks at the end of the post on most websites.
Yeah it’s a poorly structured article and website.
Ohhhh. Yeah that’s bad design
It’s also bad editing not to include that information when mentioning the reduction for the first time.
Could be interesting - some teams seem to manage better on the hards than others
