FIA tweaks F1 sprint qualifying tyre rules to avoid inters farce

The change means that teams won’t pursue clever tyre usage strategies that could see them running intermediate tyres in a dry session.
As the rules were originally written, drivers were obliged to use new medium tyres in Saturday’s SQ1 and SQ2 sessions, and then new softs on SQ3.
Teams realised that they didn’t have to save a set of new softs for SQ3 if they felt that those tyres would …Keep reading