Although Pirelli has gone a step softer in its tyre allocation for Azerbaijan this year, in the hope of steering teams away from defaulting to a one-stop strategy, actually this has had the opposite effect.
The C5 which was the unfancied soft last year is now the medium, with the new C6 becoming the softest option. But since the difference in lap time between the two compounds is so small – in the order of two tenths of a second – many teams opted to run the mediums in qualifying.
