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Pirelli must develop the new 2022 18-inch tires without a new 2022 car to test them on, which creates difficulties for the tire supplier.

Isola added that there was great difficulty in relying on computer simulation data along with team’s supplied cars used for track testing in the meantime.

“I would say that is quite a normal situation,” Isola said.

“In 2016, we had to develop wider tires for 2017, and no 2017 cars were available. So it is something that is not new to us.

“What we do is, we have a great cooperation with the teams – they supply simulations. We did a lot of work with simulation in 2016, 2020 and 2021.