Did Austria sprint shootout expose need for F1 tyre rule rethink?

That’s certainly how it looked after wet weather voided the strict tyre usage rules in the Saturday shootout and allowed everyone to use whatever slick compound they wanted to over the three sessions.

That led to some frantic laps as drivers worked their way through the soft tyres that they had access to. But there was the unusual sight of Nico Hulkenberg using new mediums in SQ3 to secure fourth on the sprint grid as others scrambled around on second-hand…