Pirelli announces tyre compounds for the upcoming races

F1 teams will use the same tyre compounds as last year in the following three races, the sport’s sole tyre manufacturer Pirelli has announced ahead of this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix.

The three Pirelli compound choices for the upcoming grands prix in Canada, Austria, and Great Britain will be the same as last year.

In Montreal and Spielberg, teams will have the softest possible combination of compounds at their disposal with the C3 as P Zero White hard, C4 as P Zero Yellow medium and C5 as P Zero Red soft set to be used in the upcoming two races. By contrast, the C1 will be the hard tyre at Silverstone, C2 the medium, and C3 the soft.

Montreal will host the Canadian Grand Prix this week from June 16-18. The track named after Ferrari’s legendary driver Gilles Villeneuve is considered as a semi-permanent circuit.

It’s a track where stability under braking and good traction are vital to be competitive. The unforgiving nature of the track is often unpredictable with the safety car being a regular feature which usually makes strategy difficult to manage during the race.

Teams will make a long flight from Montreal to visit Spielberg which will stage the Austrian Grand Prix just two weeks after the Montreal round. The rapid Spielberg circuit has the lowest number of corners of any venue on the calendar: just 10 in total.

Teams and drivers will face an intense and action-packed weekend at the Red Bull Ring as it hosts the second Sprint Race of the season on Saturday, preceded by the Sprint Shootout to determine its grid positions.

Just a week later, the teams will gather at Silvestone that will host the British Grand Prix from July 7-9. The track which hosted the very first race of the Formula One World Championship back in 1950 will see the debut of Pirelli’s new specification fo slick tyres.

This new specification, tried out by the teams during Friday free practice in Spain, is more resistant to fatigue thanks to the introduction of an already-homologated material originally planned for 2024, but is otherwise exactly the same as the specification that will be used up to the Austrian Grand Prix. Silverstone will present a great test venue for the new tyres as the demanding track puts high lateral energy loads through the rubber, as a result of the many fast corners.