Tyres announced for JPN, KOR, IND

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

[SIN] - Soft; Super Soft
JPN - Hard; Soft
KOR - Soft; Super Soft
IND - Hard; Soft

Back to the lucky dip (medium) gauge off of the special thin gauge used at Spa and Monza...

Interesting KOR is given the street circuit compounds... not sure what to read into that...

 

[Brogan]

For reference, this is all the tyres so far this season.

Grand Prix	Option		Prime

Australian	Soft		Medium

Malaysian	Medium		Hard

Chinese		Soft		Medium

Bahrain		Soft		Medium

Spanish		Soft		Hard

Monaco		Supersoft	Soft

Canadian	Supersoft	Soft

European	Soft		Medium

British		Soft		Hard

German		Soft		Medium

Hungarian	Soft		Medium

Belgian		Medium		Hard

Italian		Medium		Hard

Singapore	Supersoft	Soft

Japanese	Soft		Hard

Korean		Supersoft	Soft

Indian		Soft		Hard

 

[no-FIAt-please]

Those are some pretty aggressive tyre choices there, with Korea set to be about tyre conservation I suspect and the other 3 should feature varying strategies with the gap in compounds.

 

[Westy]

Interesting. I know that not everyone likes the importancs of tyre conservsation in F1, but I love it when there is a step gap in tyre compounds.

KOR is going to be interesting with that call from Pirelli. What compounds were run last year? I am sure they know what they are doing though. Just think if they got into a stait like Bridgestone did in Canada in 2010. The number of pit stops would be epic!

 

[no-FIAt-please]

It turns out that Korea was Soft and Super Soft last year as well!

 

[tooncheese]

Those tyre choices look safe, I doubt any exciting racing will be put down to the tyres in those races.