McLaren chassis chief Tim Goss expects a two-stop strategy to be standard at most Formula 1 races through 2018 following Pirelli's decisioꦫn to introduce two additional tyre compounds for the new season.

Pirelli pushed to 🌜move away from 2017's regular one-stop races by extending its range of tyres to seven types for the new season, adding Superhard and Hypersoft compounds atꦕ either end of its range.

Teams got a first opportunity to try out the Hypersoft at the end-of-season test in Abu Dhabi last November, and it is expected to feature typically at street circuits such as Monac♉o where grip levels are low.

As well as an increase in tyre grip that should see lap times fall, Goss is confide🍎nt there will be a shift away from the routine one-stop races that will also help to spice up races.

"They’ve released compound choices for the early races, we’ve looked at that and I think our opinion is that there will be an increase in tyre grip. That could be half a second to a s🌃econd a lap, something like that, and there will be more bias to two-stop races than previously," Goss said.

"We still think it will be a mix of on🎃e- and two-stop races, but biased more to two-stop races, so I think moving sensibly in the right direction.

"We’ve got to learn abou💦t the tyres. We obviously tested them in Abu Dhabi so it’s one circuit in fairly hot conditions, we’ve got to learn m💎ore about those tyres at different circuits.

"The gaps in term🧜s of compound performance aren’t necessarily all even. There’s sort of a bit of a bigger gap there and then two tyres that are closer to🍨gether, that’s certainly what we’ve found.

"But I think generally Pirelli have done a great job at listenin🌜g and movꦦing in the right direction."