Do you have a source for that?
Hankook tyres are not only fast but durable. I always had the impression that they are much better than Pirellis given how insanely fast DTM was and Euro F3(series which Mick was champion before going to F2, along with Zhou).
On google, I found an article saying they extented their contract with DTM:
https://www.tractionnews.com/hankook-ti ... -dtm-2023/
I think it´s very sad that fellow F1 fans around here disliked the consistent performance of the C4 tyre in Melbourne. I thought that´s what we all wanted?!
I´m curious to see how that C4 behaves in Imola´s tarmac(if it will a an option, anyway)