Formula 1 is currently going through a phase of transformation that touches every area of the car, and to truly understand it, it’s essential to tell the story through the words of those who are experiencing this revolution from the inside. It’s often said that mastering tyre usage is fundamental, since it is the car’s only contact with the asphalt, but in the search for that perfect alchemy, ingenious solutions continue to emerge.
Motorsport discussed all of this with Dario Marrafuschi, Pirelli’s head of motorsport, looking both at the present, particularly at how teams and drivers are adapting to this new technical cycle to extract the most from the tyres, and at the future, examining what will change for 2027. In fact, we can already reveal that there will be no C6 compound; instead, the range will still consist of five revised compounds aimed at widening race strategies.
