Hardest tyre selection for British Grand Prix

2016 British Grand Prix

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Pirelli will bring its hardest range of tyres for July’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

The hard, medium and soft tyres have been chosen for the tenth round of this year’s world championship. The soft will be the mandatory tyre for qualifying and each driver must have one set of medium and hard tyres available for the race.

Aside from these three mandatory requirements drivers can choose how many of each other type of tyre makes up their ten remaining sets for the weekend.

Last year Pirelli supplied the hard and medium tyres only for this race.

2016 tyre nominations so far

Circuit2016 Q32016 Option2016 Prime2015 Option2015 Prime
MelbourneSuper-softSoftMediumSoftMedium
BahrainSuper-softSoftMediumSoftMedium
ShanghaiSuper-softSoftMediumSoftMedium
SochiSuper-softSoftMediumSuper-softSoft
CatalunyaSoftMediumHardMediumHard
MontrealUltra-softSuper-softSoftSuper-softSoft
MontrealUltra-softSuper-softSoftSuper-softSoft
BakuSuper-softSoftMediumNo raceNo race
Red Bull RingUltra-softSuper-softSoftSuper-softSoft
SilverstoneSoftMediumHardMediumHard

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    Keith Collantine
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    9 comments on “Hardest tyre selection for British Grand Prix”

    1. Still have two Montreals, @keithcollantine.

    2. Gavin Campbell
      5th May 2016, 14:31

      I see we’re still racing back to back in Montreal – ;)

      Keith can you have a word and replace Abu Dhabi & Sochi for Montreal too?

      1. +10
        hahahahhahahahaha

      2. +2 #goodseason

      3. I am ok with this.

    3. hope Baku doesn’t become a boring 1 stop race.

      1. hope Baku doesn’t become a boring 3 safety-car race

        1. Hope Baku does not become a red-bull crash-fest yet again

    4. It’s certainly easier to nominate tyres this season.

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