Bridgestone Motorsport Announce Tyre Specifications



Bridgestone Motorsport announce tyre specificationsBridgestone Motorsport can announce the compound choices of Potenza tyres for a further three roundsof the FIA Formula One World Championship.

The soft and medium compounds will be used at the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, the Hungarian Grand Prix will have the super soft and soft compounds and the Turkish Grand Prix will utilisethe medium and hard compounds.

Four compounds of Bridgestone Potenza have been produced to cover the entire FIA Formula Oneseason, all of the same construction. Bridgestone’s wet Potenza is the same compound for all circuits bar Monte Carlo and Bridgestone’s extreme wet is the same compound for all circuits. The softer of the twospecification Potenzas at each round will be signified by a white line in the base of the second from inside groove.

Kees van de Grint, Bridgestone Motorsport Head of Track Engineering Operations, says: “Now we have experienced all four Bridgestone Potenza compounds in race conditions we canannounce the compounds we will use for a further three races in the calendar. These compounds havebeen chosen using the data collected at the races so far, added with our predictions and our pastexperience of the circuits. Of particular note will be the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring. Thechange of date to July should mean hotter weather and our tyre choice of the soft and medium Potenzasreflects this. Although we expect hotter conditions the micro-climate means that the temperature andconditions can vary tremendously at this location. “

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