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Pirelli: All three compounds performed as expected

Pirelli report from the Austrian Grand Prix, Round 1 of the 2020 Formula 1 World Championship at Red Bull Ring. Key Moments Mercedes driver Bottas was able to take advantage of the first safety car ... Read More...

Pirelli: One of the really dramatic races of F1 history

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won a dramatic safety car affected race with three pit stops, having started from pole. He made his final stop under the penultimate safety car, sacrificing his lead to Mercede... Read More...

Pirelli report from the Japanese Grand Prix

Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas won the Japanese Grand Prix with a two-stop soft-medium-soft strategy, on a track that was made quite unpredictable due to an enforced day off yesterday following Typhoon Hag... Read More...

Pirelli: Big air of unpredictability about the whole weekend

Pirelli report from the first day of free practice of the Japanese Grand Prix weekend, Round 17 of the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship, at Suzuka Circuit. What we learned from FP1: Qualifying has ... Read More...

Pirelli: One-stopper being clearly the way forward

Charles Leclerc drove his Ferrari to his fourth pole in a row, using the soft tyre throughout Q2 and Q3. Mercedes, by contrast, was the only team to use the medium in Q2, and both their cars will start the ... Read More...

Pirelli: We saw plenty of pace management

For the third race in a row, a Ferrari won – this time with Sebastian Vettel, from third on the grid. The German used pit stop strategy to get ahead of his pole-sitting teammate Charles Leclerc, who finishe... Read More...

Pirelli: Singapore Grand Prix fastest strategy is a one-stopper

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc claimed pole position under the lights for the Singapore Grand Prix, in a typically warm and humid qualifying session with track temperatures that remained in the region of 33... Read More...

Pirelli report from the Italian Grand Prix

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc claimed his second consecutive win from pole, using a soft-hard one-stop strategy: the only driver in the race to select this. The Monegasque driver, taking Ferrari’s firs... Read More...

Silverstone: The Past, The Present and The Future

There are two facts that even the most casual racing fan probably knows about Silverstone: firstly that it used to be a World War II airfield - names such as ‘Hangar Straight’ provide a clue - and secondly ... Read More...

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Pirelli: Austria should encourage varied pit stop strategies

In the space of less than a week, we go directly from one of the longer laps on the Formula 1 calendar (in France) to the shortest, in terms of overall lap time, in Austria: the first back-to-back of the se... Read More...

Pirelli: Best FP2 time 1.5 seconds quicker than last year

Pirelli report from day one of the French Grand Prix weekend, Round 8 of the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship, at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet. What we learned from FP1 & FP2 The tra... Read More...

F1 Penalties: A regular distraction over the years

The last one took place in Canada, causing Vettel to lose the Grand Prix, but in the past it was the turn of other champions: Senna and Prost, Rosberg and Hamilton With the 2019 Formula 1 championship a ... Read More...

Pirelli: Drivers can push hard from start to finish in France

The French Grand Prix at the Circuit Paul Ricard near Marseille is being run for only the second time since it re-appeared on the Formula 1 calendar last year. Pirelli will bring the C2 compound as the ... Read More...

Pirelli: Only two teams ran exactly the same strategies

Lewis Hamilton led home a Mercedes one-two following a dramatic weekend, taking the lead in the closing stages of the race after Ferrari’s polesitter Charles Leclerc hit problems. The top three all used... Read More...

Bahrain Grand Prix tyre selection

Pirelli have revealed the tyre compounds chosen by trams for the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, Round 2 of the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship, at Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir. The big-guns, Fe... Read More...

Pirelli announce tyre choices for Bahrain Grand Prix

Pirelli have announced the tyre choices made by different teams for the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend from 29 to 31 March in Sakhir. During the race weekend on the Bahrain International Circuit, the teams h... Read More...

Pirelli: Drivers can push from start to finish of every stint

Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas commandingly won the Australian Grand Prix, with a one-stop strategy that was in line with our prediction: going from the soft tyre to the medium on lap 24. This same bas... Read More...

Pirelli: The F1 qualifying fight has rarely been closer

In theory, the quickest strategy for the 58-lap Australian Grand Prix is actually a two-stopper: two stints on the soft tyre of 21 laps each, followed by a shorter 16-lap final stint on the medium. In pr... Read More...

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