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Hulkenberg is hoping for 'less tyre management' with new regs
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Nico Hulkenberg wish for 2017 is that drivers will be more in control of things behind the wheel this season, and less limited by constraints linked with tyre wear and management. In the past seasons, Pirelli was asked to design a compound with a relatively high level of degradation in order to introduce a level of management. But the Italian manufacturer has reversed course for 2017, and is now assigned with the task of producing a tyre with low degradation in order to favour outright speed rather than management. Palmer warning drivers to be 'ultra-fit' for Melbourne "I don't know at the moment how those cars and tyres will behave," Hulkenberg told Autosport. "It...
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