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Pirelli’s Mario Isola: “Medium to hard was clearly the best strategy”

Mario Isola heralded the battle between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton for the victory in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, feeling it was a ‘fantastic fight’ between two drivers at the top of their game and with nine Drivers’ Championship titles between them. Both Scuderia Ferrari’s Vettel and Mercedes AMG Motorsport’s Hamilton were able to use the medium Pirelli tyre at the start and were able to switch to the hard tyre in their pit stop, a strategy that Isola, the Head of F1 and Car Racing at Pirelli, felt was the optimum strategy option. Some others inside the top ten were able to get some good life out of the red-banded soft tyre, particularly Renault F1 Team’s Nico...
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