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 …

Quadruple world champion Alain Prost wants complete freedom in the tyres choices to make races more interesting after three softest Pirelli compounds in Australia proved extremely durable

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 …

Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time on the first day of pre-season testing in Barcelona by lapping three tenths of a second faster than his 2016. pole position time on the same circuit

Minimum weight of a Formula 1 car has been increased for the extra weight of wider tyres with the prior increase due to wider car brings the total increase in the minimum weight for 26 kilograms

Formula One teams spend hundreds of millions on aerodinamics and engine development, but tyres are still a race car's biggest performance variable that can easily influence its behavior