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Daniel Ricciardo says F1 needs 'more surprises' from tyre range at race weekends

Daniel Ricciardo thinks Pirelli should consider bringing qualifying-only tyres to Formula One races in order to spice up races and open up strategy options for teams.

The Spanish Grand Prix featured a strange quirk in that the softest tyre the Italian company had in its range for the weekend, the super-soft tyre, was not the ideal compound for qualifying. That had the knock-on effect of limiting strategy options for the race, where all but two of the grid's 20 drivers avoided using the super-soft tyre completely and swapped between the soft and medium at the pit stop window.