F1 teams set for wet tyre test in Barcelona as Pirelli reveals plans

Formula 1 teams will test Pirelli’s wet weather tyres on the final half-day of this week’s test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
F1 teams set for wet tyre test in Barcelona as Pirelli reveals plans

All 10 teams will be in action from Wednes🅰day as pre-season testing officially gets underway in Spain.

T🌜he test will last for t꧙hree days with each day split up into two sessions.

For this year, F1 has introduced entirely new technical regulations in a⛎ bid to improve overtaking and even the playing field.

As part of the new rules, there’s been a move from 13-i꧅n⛄ch to 18-inch tyres, giving teams another headache as they prepare for the new season which gets underway in Bahrain next month.

Pirelli has revealed that the final half-da🐲y of testing will be a wet tyre test with the track being artificially dampened to ensure there’s wet runniꦰng.

Should it rain 🌸beforehand, the wet test wil𓆉l be scrapped.

The teams will be given three sets of green-marked intermediates and the same amount of blue-m𒉰arked wets.

In terms of dry, slick tyres, they will have 30 sets of tyres to use across the three days𝓰 in Barcelona from an allocation of 35.

All of Pirelli’s slick tyres - the C1 to the C5 - will be available to🥀 use throughout.

So don’t be surprised to see some teams go quick꧑ly on the C5 tyres despite historically, Pirelli never bringing the softest tyre in💝 its range to Barcelona due to the high-speed corners and thus high degradation.

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