{"id":307856,"date":"2025-11-25T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307856\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:22:11","slug":"pirellis-c6-experiment-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307856\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli&#8217;s C6 experiment didn&#8217;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its definition of its 2026 Formula 1 tyre compounds, Pirelli has admitted to something that had become patently obvious: the C6 experiment simply hasn&#8217;t worked. The Italian rubber enthusiasts had issued a communique on Monday that stated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/f1\/news\/pirelli-abandons-c6-tyre-as-it-sets-f1-2026-compounds\/10779545\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it will homologate just five dry compounds for next season&#8217;s all-new formula<\/a>, taking us back to the C1-C5 range that we&#8217;d had in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A C6 compound had been developed and tested, but Pirelli was unable to produce a tyre with enough of a difference to the C5. This was one of the snippets of feedback that the brand had received about this year&#8217;s C6; admittedly, feedback was hardly in scarce supply in the four weekends where the C6 appeared on the menu. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/max-verstappen\/829269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Verstappen<\/a> was one of the more vocal dissidents in Azerbaijan, suggesting that Pirelli would have been better off &#8220;leaving it at home&#8221; and, as it happened, it was not brought to any further races.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its definition of its 2026 Formula 1 tyre compounds, Pirelli has admitted to something that had become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,165239,175060,85,165240],"class_list":["post-307856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-las-vegas-gp","tag-pirellis-c6-experiment-didnt-work-but-nor-have-the-other-2025-f1-tyre-trials","tag-sports","tag-streets-of-las-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}