Overview

• For Silverstone, Pirelli will supply C2, C3 and C4 tyres—one step softer than last year—to boost degradation and expand strategic choices.
• At Spa-Francorchamps, the hard tyre jumps to C1 alongside C3 and C4, skipping C2 to widen the performance gap and complicate one-stop strategies.
• Mario Isola said the slower hard compound is intended to penalize hard/medium one-stoppers and prompt teams to exploit softer options.
• Pirelli confirmed C3, C4 and C5 compounds for the Austrian and Hungarian Grands Prix, ruling out the C6 at those high-force tracks.
• These selections reflect Pirelli’s objective to diversify race outcomes by discouraging predictable one-stop tactics.