Emilia Romagna Grand Prix: What are the strategy options?

The grid is configured for the Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Oscar Piastri cut Max Verstappen for Pole Position on Saturday, with George Russell taking third and the McLaren Teamen Norris de Piastri described room.

But some fascinating tire options are available for 20 drivers for when the lights go out.

Here is a look at the strategy options for the Gran Prize of Emilia Romagna 2025.

What happened in the Grand Prix of Emilia Romagna 2024?

With a clear climate and without security cars, Emilia Romagna 2024 was a fairly simple matter. The majority of the pilots who began within the first ten implemented a unique race as expected, starting in the middle tires before changing to the hard compound.

The three drivers who start the front – Max Verstappen in Pole, followed by Lando Norris and then Charles Leclerc – ended in that order. Norris was the first to stop, facing back 22 for his change to hard tires, followed by Verstappen on Vuelta 24 and Leclerc in Tour 25. During the final laps, Norris’s hard tires came alive, and pursued Verstappen to the cadres Fliver, finishing less less.

A little further back in the field, Oscar Piasstri, who began fifth place despite the qualification in second place after they gave him a penalty of the three -places network for preventing Kevin Magnussen in the first quarter, did a work of underground strategy. It started in the middle tire and changed to the hard on Tour 23, jumping to P4 ahead of Carlos Sainz Jr.

Sainz stayed out until turn 27, and could not chase Piasstri, ending more than seven seconds behind the McLaren driver.

The best finalist to use a two -stop strategy was George Russell, who finished seventh and picked up a faster turn point. Russell began with a set of medium tires, stopping at Tour 21 for a set of darts, and then faces 52 again for another set of media. Mercedes was worried about the high levels of wear of the tires as a whole of hard, and came home seconds ahead of Sergio Pérez, who was the only points score to start in the hard complex before the middle, which he did in Vuelta 37.

What are the tire options for race 2025?

This is where things get interesting.

Pirelli has taken a softer step in the range of compounds this year. A season ago, the C3 was the hard tire in Icola, with the C4 used as average compound and the C5 as soft.

This year, the new C6 is making its debut as the soft complex, with the C5 as a medium and the C4 as the Hard. Pirelli made this change to try to introduce some strategy options for this year Emilia Romagna.

However, drivers and teams have not found the C6 to their liking, and some believe that the length of a return around Icola, particularly the duration rating, see that the tires degrade near the end of the lap. That is why the Saturday classification session dresses some teams, most Aston Martin, resort to the Middle C5 complex to push the turns. Aston Martin screwed that compound in both Fernando Alonso’s AMR25 and Lance Stroll at the end of Q2, with both drivers advancing in Q3.

They used that compound, with Alonso using a set of scrubbing, at the end of Q3 also, together with Russell.

Mario Isola, director of Automobilism of Pirelli, gave his thoughts about the C6 complex after the position of the Piestri pole on Saturday in his media report.

“This qualification session must be carefully analyzed in terms of tire behavior, since it produced many interesting ideas,” is isola.

“Everyone was eager to see how C6 would work in the qualification, compared to C5. From the initial data and listen to the immediate comments and drivers, we can say that the performance differs are the two softer relatives.

“What we saw today, on a track that did not evolve much until the first two hours of free practice, was that they were drivers extracting the entire potential of the C6,” Isola continued. “Keep in mind that this complex had never been executed in Cars 2025, and the duration of the season end of the season in Abu Dhabi, only eight of today’s 20 pilots tried. Therefore, they are likely to need to get maximum or more.

“This meean that some pilots preferred to go with the C5, a compound that they know well, since it was already the qualifying tire for the two previous races in Jeddah and Miami. They chose to sacrifice a little grip in exchange in return, in exchange, in exchange for inchistacth in exchanga in exchanga, previous The director of Pirelli concluded.

What are the strategy options?

Isola still believes that a unique approach, which begins in the middle compound and changes to darts, is the most viable option for equipment and drivers.

“As for the strategy, the only one is the most viable option, special in a track where the excess is quite complicated, in part it is only that there is only one DRS zone and also because this is the time or time of boxes of boxes longest and time of time, tea, tea, tea, tea ,,,,,,,,,,,, of time, of time or time.

The drivers and teams could choose to start the hard tire and extend a period, stay outside until around 37 and 43, and wait for a security car to take an easy stop. That could be the strategy used by the Ferrari couple of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, which begins P11 and P12, respectively.

“As an alternative, some drivers could prefer a longest first season, starting with the hard one, with the hope of a safety car, in which case the medium switch would be between the laps 37 and 43,” Isola added.

Are there compensation strategies available?

Could we see some throw the dice in a two how many?

Isola believes that this approach would put said driver at a “disadvantage.” While the time difference between a hard average and a hard average is a few seconds that shorten Ilala, the combination of a single DRS zone along with the long boxes, as well as the difficulties in excess, it means that a single is the favorite.

“A two -stop strategy is not out of the matter in terms of total race time, but the factors that only mention mean that it is at a disadvantage. For anyone who tries this, the best combinations would be medium doubts,” Isola added.

What to start with a SOFTS set to try to collect the position of the track? That was tested by Alonso and Pierre Gasly last year, the only drivers who began in the soft complex C5. They last only seven and eight laps, respectively, and Neith Driver ended at the points.

How many sets of each compound have the available drivers?

While the medium tire could be the favorite compound, three of the drivers that begin within the first ten may need to settle for a set of soldiers tomorrow: Russell, Alonso and Stroll.

Here are the tire sets available for each driver at the Emilia Romagna 2025 Grand Prix, according to this F1 diagram:

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As you can see, Russell has a set of c5 media, while both Alonso and Paseo have a pair or scheduled media that remain.

Alonso and Stroll also remain a set of hard tires for tomorrow, so Aston could be looking at a scrubbing when it comes to tires.