Mercedes have made the most conservative tyre selection of any team for next week’s British Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will have just six sets of the softest tyre available, the fewest of any drivers. The Ferrari drivers will have nine sets each.
Three drivers have gone even more aggressive with their choices for the race at Silverstone. Daniil Kvyat and the McLaren drivers will each have ten sets of the super-soft rubber.
2017 British Grand Prix tyre selections
Driver | Team | Tyres |
---|---|---|
Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |
Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | |
Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | |
Max Verstappen | Red Bull | |
Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | |
Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | |
Sergio Perez | Force India | |
Esteban Ocon | Force India | |
Felipe Massa | Williams | |
Lance Stroll | Williams | |
Fernando Alonso | McLaren | |
Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | |
Carlos Sainz Jnr | Toro Rosso | |
Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | |
Romain Grosjean | Haas | |
Kevin Magnussen | Haas | |
Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | |
Jolyon Palmer | Renault | |
Pascal Wehrlein | Sauber | |
Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | |
MazdaChris (@mazdachris)
4th July 2017, 13:03
Is the Medium the mandatory tyre for the race? If so, seems weird they wouldn’t take at least one extra set of them to run on Friday, so they have an idea of what the trye might be like on Sunday. Or does it not work like that any more?
Hugh (@hugh11)
4th July 2017, 13:13
The medium was the mandatory tyre for the race last year – however, that was using soft, medium and hard compounds. If they keep the middle compound as the mandatory tyre, then this year it’ll be the softs. Not sure for certain though.
Markp
4th July 2017, 13:13
They have to have a set of medium available for the race and a set of softs and have to use one of them. Likely everyone will use supersoft and soft so just need a medium on their Sunday allocation to adhere to the rules.
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
5th July 2017, 3:42
Conservative? I’d call it aggressive. Merc have just enough SS for P2, P3, and then qualifying, no margin for error, no intention to pit more than once and run SS again. I think SFI got it right, they have enough SS for qualifying, and perhaps one for the race, they have enough S if there’s high wear for the race, and a couple M for both some testing and strategy. Ferrari again, don’t have enough of their 2nd stint tyre, only 3 softs means they may not get enough tyre data nor enough softs if the race proves to be high on degradation, considering they have brought just the one medium they must reckon that tyre is no good.