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august 25, 2014 - Pirelli formula1

F1 Belgian GP Pirelli - Daniel Ricciardo wins his second consecutive race

Daniel Ricciardo wins his second consecutive race with a two-stop strategy: sets his fastest lap on the final tour three stop strategies used to boost pace when it is most needed high performance and low degradation on medium and soft compounds at one of the most demanding circuits of the year

Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo has won his second consecutive grand prix, from fifth on the grid in Belgium. The Australian used a two-stop strategy, starting with two stints on the P Zero Yellow soft tyre and finishing the grand prix on the P Zero White medium.

Ricciardo’s victory was the 50th for Red Bull and his third in six races.

Underlining the consistency of the medium tyre in particular, Ricciardo set his fastest lap on the final tour of the longest circuit in the championship.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg finished just over three seconds behind him, despite using a completely different strategy.

Rosberg stopped three times, starting on the soft tyre then completing two middle stints on the medium, before finishing on the soft.

A three-stop strategy was also used by Red Bull’s reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel.

Like Rosberg, Vettel decided to use the soft tyre right at the end of the race to boost his pace just when he needed it most to hunt down his closest competitors.

With around a 1.6-second time difference per lap between the medium and soft compounds, the P Zero Yellow added an extra element of strategy to one of the most demanding races of the year.

As a result, there were some thrilling battles all the way to the flag for the points-scoring places.

Owing to warmer weather conditions, degradation of both compounds was different to how it had been during free practice.

This led to a wide variety of strategies being employed on different cars, depending on the individual ways in which they used the tyres.

(more infos downloading the press release)

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