Michelin guide to F1 tyre allocations

By Michelin Press Release
March 3 2003

 

 

  
Tyre Allocation
 
Every driver will have ten sets of tyres for the week-end, corresponding to specification A or B. Since the driver has to drop two sets of tyres from one specification and one specification from the other, he will have a maximum of nine sets of tyres with the same spec. Simulation of a choice made with spec A. Availability: 36 tyres spec. A + 36 tyres spec.. B

Friday

Friday

Saturday

Saturday

Saturday

Saturday

Sunday

Free practice (session 1)


8 Spec. A

+

4 Spec. B

 

 

 

Pre qualifying

16 Spec A

+

16 Spec B

Free practice (session 2)

28 Spec. A

+

28 Spec. B

Warm up

28 Spec. A

+

28 Spec. B

The definitive choice of spec. is made before qualifying practice from the 16 selected at random. Four will be used for qualifying practice.

 

Qualifying

4 Spec. A

 

Race

4 Spec. A

from qualifying



 

Allocation of 12  “dry” tyres selected by the driver. No more than 8 tyres with the same spec..

 The FIA selects 16 tyres (from the 28) at random. These are the only tyres that may be used in qualifying practice.

Driver has  maximum of 28 tyres available (A and B) because he had already given back 12 from his 40

 

 

 Teams must decide before qualifying how much fuel they choose to run. No fuel can be added before the first pit stop of the race

4 tyres from the 16 selected by the FIA

 24 A-spec tyres remain for the race (new and used)

 
 
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