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Fans don't care about tyre compounds claims Max Verstappen

Formula 1 fans don't care about which specific tyre compound a driver is using according to Red Bull racer Max Verstappen, who says the system should be simplified. Currently Pirelli supplies seven different dry weather compounds; the Hypersoft, Ultrasoft, Supersoft, Soft, Medium, Hard and Superhard. Of those it picks three for each race weekend. Verstappen believes Pirelli should do away with the various titles and simply nominate one tyre as the soft and one as the hard each weekend to make things easier for fans to understand. 'I would only like to see a soft and a hard tyre [at races]. Ultimately people do not have to know if it's ultrasoft or supersoft,' said the...
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