Belgian Grand Prix – Pirelli have revealed that they will use the new, simplified naming system for the 2019 tyre  compounds. From 2019, Pirelli have agreed to a simplified tyre naming system that will only use the tyre descriptions of ‘soft', ‘medium' and ‘hard'. Regardless of the exact compounds which have been selected, on any given race weekend the tyres will simply be known as soft, medium or hard. In an ever-expanding selection of Pirelli tyres, currently there are seven dry-weather compounds available; superhard, hard, medium, soft, supersoft, ultrasoft and hypersoft. This was an anticipated change after it was written as a requirement for the new tender for...
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