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It will only be as confusing as commenters choose to make it. It’s pretty simple as outside of testing there will be soft, medium and hard.

For example:

Hamilton changes from the soft to the hard tyre, that’s a bit slower than the medium but will last longer.

Hamilton changes to the hard tyre, this weeks its the C2 compound that is 0.1 a lap slower than a C3 compound which is the medium tyre this week, the soft tyre is the C1 compound which is the most super sticky tyre available in F1 making the soft this week. Next week the hard tyre will be the C2 compound because the track surface at the next race will be less abrasive and thus they can use softer tyres across the board.

See the difference? One is sufficient, the other is completely unnecessary.
 

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Monza is looking to fund a €100m renovation of the circuit:

Looking ahead to the circuit's 100th anniversary in 2022, Angelo Sticchi Damiani, the president of the Italian racing federation ACI, has unveiled a €100m upgrade aimed at restoring what was the world's third purpose-built race track to its former glory.

"The money will be found in some way", he told Gazzetto dello Sport. "This is a work that we can already do in 2019."

The planned changes include reversing some of the changes made in the wake of Ayrton Senna's death at Imola in 1994. This would mean the widening of the second Lesmo and the scrapping of the second chicane, scene of Sebastian Vettel's clash with Lewis Hamilton in this year's Italian Grand Prix.

There is also talk of renovating the legendary banking - a cause close to our editor's heart - thereby allowing the track to be expanded to almost 10 kilometres in length, though it is highly unlikely this configuration would be used for F1.

"We want to recover the ring in order to expand what we can offer," said Damiani. "The road and the ring are a 10 km track, how many others can boast something similar? We can also think of a temporary structure that can be installed before the GP."

Revealing that the upgrade would also include improvements to the facilities for fans and the media, Damiani admits that the big question is funding, with the government unlikely to help out.

"The positions are still very far away from where we would like," he said, "and we have not yet talked about figures."

Indeed, as it stands 2019 is the last race under the current contract, with the circuit and F1 bosses yet to agree a deal for 2020 onwards.
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https://www.pitpass.com/63711/Monza-planning-100m-upgrade

Renovating the banking would be amazing, imagine Indy running there. Not sure how widening/removing the second chicane would work. That'd mean cars arriving at the first Lesmo at 200+ mph. With the FIA having a real hard-on for acres of run off they'd need to move the barriers back in to the next county.

Something tells me it won't happen anyway. No one with any sense is going to lend the Italians any money right now.
 

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The_Abyss said:
How will you tell if a tyre that goes around Becketts is faster, slower or the same as a tyre that goes through Eau Rouge several weeks later?
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Also why would you care? It’s irreverent, different track, different corner, different tarmac, different weather, different downforce, bodywork, upgrades etc.
 
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