Sentences with phrase «ultrasoft compound»

The Mercedes cars may have «only» used the ultrasoft compound, but this pace must be giving Ricciardo some quiet consolation.

Not exact matches

One step softer than last year doesn't sound like that much, but Pirelli's entire range of dry compounds this year is already softer than last year, meaning the new hypersoft is theoretically two steps softer than the 2017 - spec ultrasofts.

In Q2, both Red Bulls did their best time on the supersoft tyre rather than the ultrasoft, meaning they'll start the race on the theoretically more durable compound than those around them, which could be interesting.

Now we've already got hard, medium, soft, supersoft, and ultrasoft tyres, with the new compound set to be the softest and grippiest of the lot.

But instead of calling what is currently the hard tyre the super hard and then shifting all the names along one (making the new compound the ultrasoft), for some reason Pirelli wants to call its new soft tyre something new entirely.