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Radical Supercars tyre rules draw criticism – Motorsport.com
A number of key Supercars personnel were not impressed by the radical twin-compound tyre regulations that were debuted at Sydney Motorsport Park on the weekend.
In a bid to spice up the racing Supercars gave each driver five sets of new tyres, two of which were soft compound and three that were hard compound, to get through three qualifying sessions and three races.
That rules were an additional step to the five-set limit, all soft compound, that was trialled at the Sydney circuit last month.
Given SMP’s notorious degradation and the significant difference in pace between the two compounds, even drivers taking a conservative approach were forced to th…
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