Analysis: Tyre stats, facts and trivia for the 2023 F1 season

Though the 2024 System 1 season is simply across the nook, F1Technical’s senior author Balázs Szabó takes a glance again on the final yr’s championship, choosing up some key information relating to the tyre useage.

System One has had 9 totally different tyre suppliers because the beginning of the championship. In the course of the early years within the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties, F1 tyres have been provided by Dunlop, Avon, Englebert, Firestone, Continental and Goodyear. Whereas the primary eleven years of the championship sported a number of tyre suppliers, 1961 noticed Dunlop develop into the only tyre producer with the British firm having held this unique contract with the game for 3 years.

In 1964, Goodyear joined Dunlop in supplying tyres to F1 groups. The Japanese tyre producer Bridgestone joined the game in 1976, however stayed just for two years. Michelin adopted swimsuit within the subsequent season, however stayed for an extended interval till 1984.

1987 marked the beginning of the second interval with solely a single tyre provider when Goodyear held an unique contract with System One for 2 seasons. Nonetheless, Goodyear was joined by Pirelli three years later for the next three seasons, however the American tyre producer served as the only tyre provider once more between 1992 and 1996.

1999 and 2000 noticed Bridgestone provide each workforce with their merchandise earlier than partaking in warfare with French tyre producer Michelin. Following a four-year interval between 2007 and 2010 that noticed the Japanese tyre producer provide F1 with tyre solely, Pirelli took over the unique contract

File-equalling season

With the cancellation of the Chinese language and the Emilia Romagna F1 rounds, the 2023 season stretched over 22 races with which the game equalled its earlier file of twenty-two races in a single season.

In whole, Pirelli’s System 1 tyres drove almost eight instances round Earth’s circumference all through the 22 Grands Prix that made up the 2023 season. Particularly, 307,925.8 kilometres have been travelled over 60,473 laps by the 6,847 units of tyres that have been pushed for at the very least one lap by drivers from the ten groups that made up this yr’s System 1 World Championship.

It isn’t stunning that the overwhelming majority of that distance was lined on the slick tyres: solely 6.31% of these kilometres have been pushed on the Cinturato Intermediate or Cinturato Excessive Moist. The important thing protagonist was the C3 which was nominated for each race: used for 105,499 kilometres, which is greater than a 3rd of the whole distance pushed (36.57%). The C4 was the second most-used compound, with 27.43% of the whole, adopted by the C2 (15.41%) and C5 (13.55%). The least-used compound was the C1, with 5.73% of the whole distance. The three,800 kilometres pushed throughout grand prix weekends on prototype tyres additionally have to be added to the whole: in Barcelona, Suzuka, and Mexico Metropolis.

The longest stints

As for the longest stints are involved, McLaren rookie driver Oscar Piastri stood out together with his extraordinarily future in Jeddah. On solely his second System 1 race look, the Australian was compelled to cease on the finish of lap one to alter a broken entrance wing following contact with Pierre Gasly. On the identical time, he bolted on a set of C2 tyres that he drove all the best way to the flag: a complete distance of 302.5 kilometres. In doing so, Piastri went two kilometres additional than Esteban Ocon, who drove a single set of C3 tyres for 302.5 kilometres in Baku after beginning on them from the pit lane, earlier than making his obligatory pit cease on the penultimate of 51 scheduled laps.

The Azerbaijan avenue circuit was additionally the scene of the longest stint of the yr on the softest compound: Valtteri Bottas accomplished your complete dash race distance on Saturday afternoon (17 laps, equal to 102 kilometres) with a set of C5 tyres. Bottas additionally holds the file for the longest distance on the toughest compound; particularly 32 laps (equal to 188.4 kilometres) at Silverstone. The longest stint on the C4 was accomplished by one other Alfa Romeo driver: Guanyu Zhou, who used it for 212.7 kilometres in Singapore.

Three totally different tyre allocations

All through the 2023 season, there have been three totally different weekend codecs with particular guidelines referring to tyre use. A complete of 14 races adopted the basic weekend schedule of three free apply periods, qualifying, and the race. On an ordinary weekend, drivers are given 13 units of dry climate tyres, 4 units of intermediates and three units of full wets.

The 2024 F1 season options six Dash weekends – with only one free apply on Friday, adopted by race qualifying, and Saturday’s Dash Shootout and Dash race, earlier than the Grand Prix on Sunday. On a dash weekend, drivers obtain 12 units of slick tyres, quite than the usual 13.

Lastly, the Different Tyre Allocation format was trialled on two events, with the objective of taking a look at methods to handle tyre use extra effectively. The ATA comprised three units of hards, 4 units of mediums and simply 4 units of softs. That was one further set of every of the hards and mediums in comparison with an ordinary weekend however with the variety of smooth units accessible halved from the same old eight. The format that got here into power first in Hungary after which in Italy, is not going to return in 2024.

A couple of thousand units of slicks for the 22 occasions have been by no means used, whereas one other 732 have been pushed just for one to 3 laps. As for the acute moist tyres, Pirelli adopted a ‘strip and match’ methodology this yr; permitting tyres that have been fitted however by no means was carried over to different occasions. It will assist the groups to enhance their tyre administration, on condition that in 2023, for instance, 1,304 units of intermediate and moist tyres by no means accomplished a lap.

Climate circumstances

The Dutch Grand Prix was the race with essentially the most tyre modifications this yr (counting each ‘actual’ pit stops and tyre modifications below a pink flag). As a result of the climate stored on altering, with intermittent rain, there have been 82 tyre modifications in whole, utilizing each sort of tyre: the three slick compounds, intermediates, and excessive wets have been all seen on tack at numerous factors. In contrast, the race with the fewest tyre modifications was Miami, the place all 20 drivers carried out simply their one compulsory pit cease below the foundations. The entire variety of tyre modifications through the yr (contemplating the dash races as effectively) was 871.

Austin proved to be the most popular race of the yr by way of ambient temperature, with 34.7 levels centigrade on Saturday through the Dash race and 32.8 levels throughout Sunday’s Grand Prix. Zandvoort was the good, with a mean temperature of 15.1 levels. When it comes to asphalt temperature, Hungaroring was the most popular race of the yr with 53.6 levels, whereas the good was Las Vegas with 18.5 levels.

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