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Pirelli goes softer for F1 2024 Australian Grand Prix
Pirelli, the Italian tyre company, has decided to stick with its current tyre specification for next year, as teams are already familiar with their behavior. Pirelli has already chosen its compound selections for the first three races of the 2024 season. The season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix will feature the C1, C2, and C3 compounds, while the second race in Saudi Arabia will have the C2, C3, and C4. The third round in Australia will see a change to the C3, C4, and C5 compounds. Pirelli hopes that the shift to softer compounds will reduce tyre warm-up issues and create more strategic options. The decision to retain the same tyres came after attempts to modify compounds during the 2023 season did not yield the desired results. Pirelli is confident that the current tyre construction can handle the increased demands of the 2024 season. The only other recent season where tyres remained unchanged was during the Covid-impacted 2020 and 2021 seasons when no tyre testing was possible.
