The 2025 Formula 1 season is now just weeks away.
The season will start informally tomorrow in a unique event, which is the launch of the season in O2 in London. To honor the seventy -fifth anniversary of sport, the teams gather to reveal their liver for the next season, as it is expected that all twenty drivers as well as each team will attend. Among the many stories of this event? The first real appearance of Lewis Hamilton as a driver of Ferrari.
Then next week, all the ten teams will be in implementation to test the pre -season in Bahrain, in the Bahrain International Circuit.
Before the 2025 season – and with some changes to be discussed – this is an ideal time to talk about tires.
Who provides F1 tires?
Since 2011, the Italian manufacturer Pirelli has been the exclusive tire supplier for F1. The company has been associated with sports since its inception, as Perily was one of the four tire manufacturers who presented tires in 1950, the opening season for sports.
In October 2023, the company signed a new deal with F1 to keep the exclusive tire resource during the 2027 season, with an option to expand the deal for an additional year.
During the past 14 seasons, Pirelli F1 helped where sport has worked through various changes on both technical regulations as well Technical changes, which enter into force for the 2026 F1 season.
What are the types of tires available?
In general, there are two types of tires available: slicks, and wet weather tires. As we’ll see in a moment, there are different vehicles available for both SLICK and Wet-WETHER tires.
The slow tires do not contain their tires and are the main tires used during training, qualification and race, and different vehicles have different levels of fist available to drivers. The difference will only turn into one of the two types of wet weather tires when the conditions are so that the amount of water on the path makes running on the tires of a very difficult spot.
What are the slow vehicles available for 2025?
Pireli contains six spots available, ranging from difficulty to blessings: C1, C2, C3, C4, C5 and C6 compounds.
C6 is a super -Pireli compound this season, and is expected to be used in street circles.
As a rule, the more softer the compound, the higher the fist, but the lower the durability. On the contrary, the more difficult the boat, the more drivers decrease, but they will be able to stay on the right track for the longest operation.
Each weekend in the Pireli race will set three vehicles for use: “Hard”, “Medium” and “Soft”, based on the specified circuit properties. This may mean that a compound is set in one week as difficult, but then because of the characteristics of the circle the next week, the same boat is suddenly the method.
Once these labels are made, weekend tires are granted in a specific race colored abroad to help fans to identify the boat used by each driver. Solid tires are given a white tape, medium yellow strip frames, and soft tires are given a red tape. In this photo below, you can see Pirelli engineers who work on a group of medium tires:
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Due to their fist levels, soft tires are generally used during rehabilitation, or to spend short understanding during races. Media and steel are usually preferred on Sundays, although we will see in a moment there is some strategy that must be taken into account, so you may see a noisy team on a group of sofa at the beginning of the race to try to get the track position, or in the closing stages to try to compensate for time.
The 2025 F1 season begins with the Australian Grand Prix, and in the last year’s race, Berili appointed the three vehicles in their extent – C3, C4 and C5 – as the three options for this week. C3 was the hard compound, C4 stood as a means, and the C5 was soft.
Pirelli was not after identifying the three vehicles that will be used in the Australian Grand Prix for this year, but with the introduction of C6 for this season, there is an opportunity to see the girl immediately.
What are the available weather vehicles for 2025?
As with previous seasons, there are tires of wet weather available for the teams.
The first is the “mediator”, which is used during wet conditions when there is no permanent water on the path. The tacker on this frame allows one frame to displace 35 to 40 liters of water per second, when the car travels about 300 km per hour, According to Berili. This means that the F1 car is equipped with four intermediate tires that can replace 150 liters of water per second. These tires are set with a green bar on the side.
Then there are complete “wet” tires, and they are used when there is water standing on the path and/or during heavy rains. Pireli notes that the full wet tires can replace the amount of water that is replaced by their intermediate counterparts, given the depth of the decrees.
How many tires do each driver gets for the weekend of the race?
The allocation of tires depends on whether the racing concerned is the Standard Grand Prix, at the weekend F1 SPRINT.
On the Standard Weekends Grand Prix, drivers are granted to allocate 13 sets of dry weather tires, four groups of mediators, and three groups of full wet tires. Slow tires are divided as follows: two steel groups, three groups of media, and eight groups of sofa.
Drivers are also required to return two sets of tires to Pirelli after each of the three training sessions, leaving seven groups to qualify and race itself.
On the F1 Sprint Race holidays, the allocation of tires falls from 13 to 12. Drivers get two steel sets, four of the media, and six of the sofa. The total number of wet weather groups remains the same, but it becomes five medium and twice groups.
Also on F1 SPRINT holiday holidays, drivers must use the average compound during both SQ1 and SQ2, and they can only get the sofa that is installed for SQ3, if it advances to the final part of the qualifiers.
What other rules should fans know about the use of tires?
The last thing to know about the use of tires in F1 is: if the race is considered “dry” by the race officials, drivers must use two different vehicles during the race. For example, drivers who start a specific race on a group of media should stop at least from the hole to switch to the sofa or solid. Or, if the driver starts a set of steel and puts a long time to start the race, they will need to stop at least once to switch to the media or sofa.
Once you use two different compounds, you have met this rule. For example, Carlos Sinz Junior, who won the Australian Grand Prix of 2024, It started with a set of medium tiresInduction on the 16 -switch to switch to Hards, and again incite the 42 roll for another set of steel.
Another example is George Russell, who won the Austrian Grand Prix of 2024 after a clash between Max Versaben and Lando Norris in front of him, opened the door for Mercedes driver to storm at the forefront. Correspondent This race started on a set of mediaInduction on the window 22 of another group of media, and make the shift to steel when he entered the pits in the lap 46.
This rule does not enter if the race officials set a race as “wet” due to weather conditions. This means in rainy weather teams that may manage the entire race on the same set of tires. However, wearing tires can require stopping a fresh rubber hole.
