Michelin guide to F1 tyre allocations
By Michelin Press Release
March 3 2003
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Allocation |
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Every driver will have ten sets
of tyres for the week-end, corresponding to specification A or B. Since the
driver has to drop two sets of tyres from one specification and one
specification from the other, he will have a maximum of nine sets of tyres
with the same spec.
Simulation of a choice made with spec A.
Availability: 36 tyres spec.
A + 36 tyres
spec..
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Friday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Saturday |
Saturday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
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Free
practice (session 1)
8 Spec. A
+
4
Spec. B
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Pre qualifying
16 Spec A
+
16
Spec B |
Free practice (session 2)
28 Spec. A
+
28
Spec. B |
Warm up
28 Spec. A
+
28
Spec. B |
The definitive choice of spec.
is
made before qualifying practice from the 16 selected at random. Four
will be used for qualifying practice.
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Qualifying
4 Spec. A
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Race
4 Spec. A
from qualifying
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Allocation of
12 “dry” tyres selected by the driver. No more than 8 tyres with the
same spec.. |
The FIA selects 16 tyres (from the 28)
at random. These are the only tyres that may be used in qualifying
practice.
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Driver has
maximum of 28 tyres
available (A and B) because he had already given back 12 from his 40
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Teams must decide before qualifying how
much fuel they choose to run.
No fuel can be added before the first
pit stop of the race
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4 tyres from the 16 selected by the FIA |
24 A-spec tyres remain for the race
(new and used)
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