F1 | Pirelli: the standard tire allocation will also remain in 2022

Starting from the 2016 season, the Federation and Pirelli had decided to make three different compounds available to the teams for each race weekend, leaving the teams the possibility of deciding how to divide the various sets of tires depending on the strategies and characteristics of the single-seater. .

An opportunity that had seen the teams on several occasions choose between different approaches, at least until 2020, when in order to reduce costs in the pandemic phase this possibility was revoked, assigning each team an equal number of sets of each compound as established from Pirelli. A rule that would then also be confirmed for the 2021 championship and which, according to what Mario Isola reported, will also remain in force for 2022, the first with the new generation of single-seaters: "We had to find a solution for the pandemic to be as as fast as possible,” explained the motorsport manager of the Italian company during an event in Monaco, where Pirelli presented the new features for the season.

“But then teams contacted us saying, 'Actually this system is quite good, we want to keep it for the future.' So it wasn't our decision to continue with the fixed tire allocation. Teams have told us that if there is a fixed allocation, this is then the same for everyone, so there is no advantage to one or the other and they can start planning based on this allocation instead of spend time and resources and people to think about whether to bring one more set of mediums or one less set of softs. They have that assignment, they have to base themselves on that,” Isola added.

A choice also made on the basis of the uncertainties and innovations of the 2022 season, in particular with the transition to 18-inch tires compared to the 13-inch ones used in previous championships, tested only on forklift cars adapted to help the Italian company in data collection: “In 2020 they said they wanted to continue with the same method [the fixed allocation] in 2020. In 2021, with the new product for 2022, no one was sure how to decide their compounds and allocation and so they want to continue with the current method. I don't know if they will want to change for 2023, but for the moment this is the answer", concluded the Pirelli Motorsport director.