Are Red Bull and Ferrari on back foot for potential Japanese GP tyre wrecker?

The famous figure-of-eight track has actually constantly been penalizing on its rubber, yet points might well be a little bit much more severe this moment around.

Race day is anticipated to be an additional criticism, and problems that George Russell pointed out on Friday regarding a “strange” moving have actually been triggered by a track surface area that has actually had a 15% decrease in macro roughness (so reliable hold) contrasted to year earlier.

As Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc stated: “Especially with the very warm temperatures this year, the overheating is really, really bad. So, I expect that it [the race] will be all about the tyre management and the strategy.”

A two-stopper looks toenailed on after that, yet it features not all groups having the deluxe of what seems the perfect tyre allowance to obtain them with without much dramatization.

F1 tyre provider Pirelli assumes the very best technique to the race is to begin on the …