Pirelli boss Mario Isola hopes t♎he upcoming Abu Dhabi tyre test will provide Formula 1 teams with a clearer picture of its new compounds for the 2020 season.

F1 teams and drivers were critical of Pirelli’s new tyres after testing them for the first time during United States Grand Prix practice, but Isola insisted conditions were not rep♓resentative due to the unusually cooler track temperatures seen on Friday in Austin.

A further two-day evaluation is scheduled for December 3-4 f🍰ollowing this weekend’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit.

“The feedback was mixed,” Isola said.

“I believe that we had quite difficult conditions in Austin. It was very col🍷d and𓂃 the new tyres are designed with a different philosophy.

“So the plan now is to test them again in Abu Dhabi where we hav♒e a two-day test planned specifically for testing the new construction and new compounds, so we will have a comparison that is more reliable compared to Austin.

“We tested this n♊ew construction during the year with the teams and with their cars and we found an improvement in terms of overheating, i꧒n terms of compounds with a wider working range.

“But mainly the new construction was designed because every year the 🍌performance of the cars is increasing and obviously we have to follow this increase i✨n performance.

“If we don’t change the construction, the only possibility is to ♉raise the starting pressure – and raising the starting pressure is making the overheating worse and the behaviour of the tyre in general worse.

“The new construction has been designed with the target to keep the pressuꦓre as low as possible, according to the improvement in the performance of the cars.”

Team bosses agreed in Austin that the championship would be better to stick to Pirelli’s 2019 range for next ye🥀ar if the gains it hoped tꩲo make with the 2020 compounds were not achieved.

“I hope that we�🌱� can have a test in Abu Dhabi that is more representative,” Isola added.

“I fully understand during the race weekend all the teams are focussed on the race weekend itself, so they cannot adjust the set-up of the car – the aero-balance of the car – and the new tyres have a different p🍌rofile.

“They are wider, especially on the rear, and this has an impact on 𓆉the downforce of the car, as well as the ba🙈lance of the car.

“So, we need a bit more time to test them properly on long runs, to understand if we achieve this target. After that, obviously we are v💜ery happy to discuss the result of the test and to see what is better for the sport.”