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Pirelli boosts pressures in Baku amid increased stress levels
Pirelli has increased minimum rear tyre pressures for the remainder of the Azerbaijan GP weekend as stress levels in Baku have exceeded the manufacturer's expectations. The boost from 19psi to 20psi is another variable that teams were forced to take into account at the start of Saturday's running. For this year's return to Baku, Pirelli opted to supply a softer tyre selection relative to F1's last visit to Azerbaijan in 2019. The C3, C4 and C5 choice was initially made to introduce an extra strategic element, bringing into play a hard tyre that wasn't used at in 2019. "The severity that we measured on telemetry is higher than the simulation," Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola told...
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