Charles Leclerc completed the first laps in the F1 car this season by testing 18-inch tyres for Pirelli in Jerez, according to a short press release from an Italian tyre manufacturer who is preparing to introduce a new tyre size in 2021.

Charles Leclerc got his second fastest lap in his F1 carrer in Baku and second for Ferrari in the first four races of the 2019 F1 championship, but it will be a little comfort for the Italian team who expected a lot more from this weekend.

Valtteri Bottas crowned a nearly perfect weekend in Australia setting the fastest lap of the race, although he and Lewis Hamilton advised not to push for it before the race while almost all drivers were on the one stop strategy.

Pirelli has decided to bring the C2, C3, and C4 components of their dry weather tyres for the first race of the season in Australia - let's look at the Albert Park track characteristics from the tyre point of view and Pirelli pressure and camber limits.

The Italian tyre manufacturer and official F1 tyre supplier Pirelli is not expecting changes in the number of pitstops for the first 2019 Formula 1 race in Australia as they believe that most of the drivers will have only one tyre change.

Pirelli brought the supersoft tyres in China for the first time which proved to be a good decision because drivers could drive more than half a race on them. After few laps on intermediate tyres, drivers have switched on dry tyres, but regardless of their initial plans of some drivers and teams to finish the race on that set of …

Drivers have 13 sets of Pirelli slick tyres, but for first five races only they cannot chose how many sets of each component they want to take. All drivers will have 7 sets of softest compound, 4 sets of middle compound and 2 sets of hardest avalaible compound

Kimi Raikkonen clocked the fastest time on the last day of the first test in Barcelona after he drove fastest lap 1: 20.872 on a track that dried up after being artificially soaked night before. Pirelli and the FIA ​​agreed that one of the first four days of the test will be reserved for wet tyres testing, and after the rain did …

Since 2007, Formula 1 has a single tyre supplier (Bridgestone 2007 - 2010, Pirelli since 2011). Today, all teams must use identical Pirelli tyres

Formula 1 car must have four uncovered  wheels and all must be made of the same metal material that has to be one of the two magnesium alloy prescribed by FIA. The front wheels must be wide between 370 and 385 mm, and the back between 455 and 470 mm.