What are the specific technical challenges of Silverstone?
Silverstone, in fact, presents a thumbprint very similar to Barcelona. In terms of the aerodynamic package we are looking for the same kind of compromise as in Spain. On the tyre side we will be working on the hard side of the Bridgestone range. Perhaps even a little bit harder than in Barcelona probably. For both the aero package and the tyres, the reason why Silverstone looks so similar to Barcelona is that we have many long, high-speed corners. But the Becketts section is especially challenging and different to Barcelona you don’t have those high-speed changes of direction in Barcelona. For that reason we build in a bit more understeer at Silverstone because to achieve decent stability at high speed, you need it. But the tyres don’t like that!
