Sentence examples for tyre compound from inspiring English sources

With the safety car on track, their theory was for Hamilton to do only one lap on the supersoft tyre compound - the fastest but least durable of the three compounds available - before pitting again for the soft-tyre option.

Hirvonen, however, felt his tyre compound was too soft, and was unimpressed with his time.

He completed his final lap of the session on a "scrubbed" set of the harder tyre compound and it got him third place.

According to Pirelli, the hardest tyre compound available is just 31% harder than the softest compound on offer; by comparison, the hardest tyres used in 2011 were 70% harder than the softest.

The circuit was declared dry, allowing the drivers to start on the tyre compound of their choice, with Alonso on the harder tyre streaking away at the start while Paul di Resta crashed at Aintree on the first lap after making contact with Romain Grosjean.

It emphasises a fundamental issue with Pirelli's tyre compounding this year - the 'soft' tyre is too soft.

Pirelli have confirmed the tyre compounds that will be available for the first four grand prix of the 2015 season.

"When we moved to the harder of the two tyre compounds after the first stop, the balance was much better.

This is mainly explained by the dynamical properties of tyre compounds, like the viscoelastic behaviour of the rubber.

Alonso said: "We concentrated on a comparison of the (tyre) compounds, starting with the soft and moving on to the hard in the afternoon.

For 2016, bosses have approved a plan to allow teams free choice of the four available tyre compounds for each race.