Hamilton calls for Pirelli to end “ridiculous” one-stop F1 races
Lewis Hamilton wants Formula 1 🌃tyre supplier Pirelli to create much softer compounds for the 2019 season to put an end to “ridiculous” 𝓡one-stop races.
Pirelli softened its tyre selection for this year and introduced two new compounds at either end of the spec🥂trum in a bid to encourage greater vari🔴ation in race strategies.
Despite the change, 13 of the 16 rounds so far in 2018 have been won by driv🐎ers using a one-stop strategy - leading to calls from Hamilton for the Italian tyre manufacturer to move at least “three steps softer” with its 2019 range.

Lewis Hamilton wants Formu🐻la 1 tyre supplier Pirelli to create much softer compounds for the 2019 season t🥀o put an end to “ridiculous” one-stop races.
Pirelli softened its tyre selection for this year 🌊and introduced two new compounds at either end of the spectrum in a bid to encourage greater var🎀iation in race strategies.
Despite the change, 13 of the 16 rounds so far in 2018 have bee🧜n won by drivers using a one-stop strategy - leading to calls from 🐽Hamilton for the Italian tyre manufacturer to move at least “three steps softer” with its 2019 range.
"I've reallꦏy got to keep pushing Pirelli because the tyres feel great here, but this whole one-stop business is just ridiculous," Hamilton said.
"So next year I reckon they've got 𒊎to go like three or four - maybe three steps softer. Swing [the compounds] all lower so we have to do at least two stops per race.”
Hamilton also wants Pir🔜elli to switch to the thinner gauge compound that featured at races in Spain, ꩵFrance and Great Britain to reduce the effects of overheating, which he believes would improve the quality of wheel-to-wheel racing.
"It's going to make it a little bit more challenging, and more grip, na🔯turally, as you go to the soꦿfter compounds.
"And then [have] the thinner gauge, so you have less of th🎀e thermal blisters that we see. Maybe [then] we canꦺ be able to follow [other cars] and have more racing."
Pirelli believes a one-stop strategy will prove the quickest and best option in Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix, adding a two-s🌞topper is "possible but slower".

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