With the Italian company electing to stick with its current tyre specification for next year, teams are already well-versed on their behaviour.
So, with little more to understand about the different tyres, Pirelli has already committed to its compound choices for the opening three grands prix of next season.
Having decided against having a sixth C0 compound – the hardest in its selection in 2023 – Pirelli will take the C1, C2 and C3 to the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, and will move a step softer for the second race in Saudi Arabia, which will feature the C2, C3 and C4. These are identical selections to this year.
The bigger change will take place for the third round of the championship in Australia, which will now run with the softer C3, C4 and C5 compounds.
As well as the move hopefully reducing the tyre warm-up problems that impacted the late stages of the race this year, Pirelli hopes the shift will open up more strategic options as well.
Pirelli’s decision to stick with the same tyres next year came after a mid-season modification in 2023 when a new construction arrived for the British Grand Prix.
The company did evaluate compound tweaks in the closing stages of the year, but tests on these did not deliver the steps forward hoped for.
Source: Autosport