Pirelli has warned drivers not to risk keeping full wet tyres on their cars at Sepang while they wait to switch to slicks.<\/p>\n
With rain likely to play a role this weekend, the official tyre supplier’s chief Paul Hembery said drivers should switch immediately to intermediates as soon as the track is no longer very wet.<\/p>\n
Previously, with F1’s departed official supplier Bridgestone, drivers could try to make their wet tyres work on a drying track and thereby avoid making an extra pitstop before changing to slicks.<\/p>\n
“I don’t believe they will be able to do rain (tyres)-to-slick, because the rain tyre is very much a rain tyre and doesn’t operate well on drying tracks and will blister very quickly,” he is quoted by AP.<\/p>\n
“You don’t want to be on a dry track with the full wets,” warned Hembery.<\/p>\n
His comments follow Pirelli’s private testing with a Toyota and Pedro de la Rosa last week at Istanbul, where two of the three days of running were wet.<\/p>\n
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