Pirelli has confirmed which compounds it has made available for the Spanish, Monaco, Canadian and Azerbaijan races this season, and which of those must be used during qualifying and the race. Pirelli will take its three hardest compounds – the soft, medium and hard – to the Spanish Grand Prix in May and have selected the soft compound as the mandatory qualifying tyre. This means every driver must save a set of the soft tyre to use during Q3 – those that don't make it through to the final top-ten shoot-out can use that set during the race, whilst those that do, must return it to Pirelli at the end of the qualifying session. Meanwhile the medium and...
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