Listen to this article During the lunch break on F1’s final day of testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the circuit will be sprayed with water to replicate full wet conditions, with the intention to explore the intermediate tyre once the track surface dries out. With limited real world testing possible for Pirelli’s new 18-inch variants of its wet and intermediate tyres, the Italian tyre company wishes to put them through their paces prior to the start of the 2022 season. Pirelli motorsport chief Mario Isola added that he also wants to ensure that the clearance between the tyre and the new wheel deflector remains intact under load, given the slight increase in tyre diameter with the wet tyre’s tread block. “We want to test the wet and intermediate tyre before the start of the season, because the changes were so big that it’s not clever to start the season wit …