After the end of the season, Pirelli published a traditional statistical report on its results…
In 22 Grands Prix this season, Pirelli tires have circumnavigated the Earth almost eight times. 307,925.8 kilometers were covered in 60,473 laps on 6,847 sets of tires.
The vast majority of this distance was covered on slicks; rain and intermediate tires accounted for only 6.31% of the distance.
The main hero (which is not surprising, since this compound was used in every race) was the C3 – these tires covered 105,499 kilometers or 36.57% of the distance. C4 was the second most popular with 27.43%, followed by C2 with 15.41% and C5 with 13.55%. The least used composition was C1 – 5.73% of the distance. To the total must be added the 3,800 kilometers that the drivers drove during training on prototype 2024 tires in Barcelona, Suzuka and Mexico City.
McLaren driver Oscar Piastri drove the longest stint of the season during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Already on the first lap he had to make a forced pit stop to replace the front wing; he was given a set of C2 tires, on which he drove 302.5 kilometers to the finish of the race.
There were three tire formats during the season: fourteen traditional Grands Prix, six sprint weekends on Saturday and two rounds with an alternative tire format.
About a thousand sets of slicks were never used during the 22 laps, and another 732 completed only one or three laps.
1304 sets of intermediate and rain tires did not complete a single lap.
The Dutch Grand Prix was the race with the highest number of tire changes this year, both at pit stops and under red flags. A total of 82 sets were replaced with all three slick compounds, intermediate and rain tires.
The race with the fewest tire changes took place in Miami, where all twenty drivers made only one mandatory pit stop.
The highest temperatures were in Austin: 34.7 degrees Celsius in Saturday’s sprint and 32.8 degrees Celsius during Sunday’s Grand Prix. It was the coldest in Zandvoort: 15.1 degrees Celsius.
In terms of asphalt temperatures, the Hungaroring was the hottest race of the year with a temperature of 53.6 degrees, while Las Vegas was the coolest at 18.5 degrees.
Source: F1 News
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