Pirelli set to abandon C2 shift for F1 2024 after Japan prototype test

F1’s official tyre supplier has been evaluating some minor tweaks to next year’s tyre compound selection in a bid to tidy up some minor issues.

One of the areas it thought about changing was making the C2 – the third hardest compound in its selection that runs from C0 to C5 – slightly softer.

This was because it has proven to be quite close in performance to the C1, and slightly too far away from the C3, so a slight shift would have…