Why drivers aren’t convinced by F1’s qualifying tyre experiment

Rather than drivers having free tyre choice, the hard compound will be mandated in Q1, mediums for Q2 and then the red-walled soft rubber for the Q3 shootout for pole position.

This Alternative Tyre Allocation has been ostensibly devised to improve the championship’s sustainability credentials. By lowering the number of tyre sets each driver may use during a weekend from 13 to 11, the amount of freight sent to a race will decrease…