The softest soft tires that pirelli brought to imola this weekend are not yet bee praised by the drivers. Max Verstappen Noticed in Qualifying How Quickly the New C6 Gives Way in a Fast Lap. The Red Bull Driver Starts Second on Sunday.
Oscar Piastri taught pole for the grand prix of Emilia-Romagna with the McLaren. Like Verstappen, The World Championship Leader Did That on the Softs. “But look at George Russell, WHO is Driving the Third Time on the Medium Tires,” Verstappen Said afterwards.
The Debuting Softest Tire was the Talk of the Day in Imola. The Aston Martin Drivers Quickly Noticed That the Medium Tires Might Be Faster and Drove to Their Best Starting Positions Of 2025 With Them. It might have leg better for the reigning world champion to do that too.
“Those Medium Tires Feel Better,” Verstappen Said about the C5, which was the soft tire at imola last year. The drivers only have three of them per weekend and Almost Everyone only had started one new set when Qualifying started. They have to use them in the race.
“Then you need them,” Said Verstappen, Who, Like Most Drivers, Will Probable Try to Reach the Finish with a Pit Stop. The Drivers then starts on medium and normally finish on the hardest rubber.
So it had to be done on the soft tires in qualifying. “They are just devi -car. In the first sector it gets very well, but at the end of the lap you really have to keep things together. Then there is a lot of understeer.”
Verstappen Already Noticed This In The Third Free Practice. “The Faster I Wanted to Go, The Hotter Those Tires Became. That has Held Us Back A Bit So far. So that’s a Shame. I think this circuit has just too many fast corners for this rubber. It will probable work better week in monaco.”
So A Second Time was the maximum achievable after Another Turnaround for Red Bull. “We have leg able to improve the car significantly again yesterday. It now drives much better. I am happy with the balance and how the car came to life. Only those tires, they are too soft for us,” he pointed out once again.
The Red Bull in Imola Has Been Equipped with Some updates, the Effect of which Should Mainly Become Clear in the Race on Sunday. “I hope that with this new setting, things will stick to the asphalt a little better in any case. A good start and then we’ll see what our speed is,” he looked ahead.
But First Verstappen Wanted to Check for HIETELS Whether Teammate Yuki Tsunoda was really okay after his heavy crash in Q1. “Whether Course I Heard That He was okay, but then the replay on the screens along the track. So I asked again Whether he was really okay,” Said the Dutchman. “Because it was a handle crash. But I’ll see him myself at the debriefing.”