Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery is confident that a step in the compound allocation will keep the teams on their toes in Barcelona next weekend. The Italian... read more »

Kamui Kobayashi: “At the Mugello test I definitely had the feeling our new update to the car is a step forward for us. This is good, of course, but only at the... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen will not get to test the E20 this week in Mugello after Lotus confirmed that Romain Grosjean would be behind the wheel on Wednesday and Thursday. The adverse... read more »

Paul Hembery: "This was certainly a very technically challenging race, on a circuit that we had never experienced in racing conditions before. Nonetheless, we chose to... read more »

Sergio Perez, 11th: "We knew this circuit would not be an easy one for us and we were just too slow today. We tried both strategies and split them between the cars but... read more »

Fernando Alonso, 9th: "Today, we were worth a place somewhere between eighth and twelfth, so ninth on the grid fits in with our current level. Honestly, given the... read more »

Paul Hembery: "We've seen a great job from Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, who demonstrated their ability to get the most out of the tyres by extracting every last bit... read more »

Both sessions were dominated by the performance of the medium and soft tyres as we worked to optimise the set-ups to balance the car for the difficult track conditions. read more »

Heading into the Chinese Grand Prix, Sauber looked set for another competitive race as Kamui Kobayashi lined up 3rd on the grid, his best qualifying position to date. However,... read more »

We're expecting the difference between the soft and the medium tyre to be in the region of 0.6 seconds per lap, and we would anticipate between two and three pit stops per... read more »

As the Formula 1 fraternity prepares to depart to Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix, tyre degradation is once again a top priority for teams’ and drivers’ alike. Pirelli have... read more »

Pirelli has revealed which Slick tyre compounds will be taken to the Bahrain, Spanish and Monaco Grands Prix. There will be a Soft and Medium choice for Sakhir, whereas... read more »

The top two finishers adopted a completely different tyre strategy, with Alonso on the medium tyre and Perez on the hard tyre in the final stint. read more »

Sebastian Vettel says his decision to qualify on hard tyres at the Malaysian Grand Prix was not part of a wider strategy but due to his struggles on the medium compound read more »

As always on a Friday, the main priority was to try and get a good understanding of the tyres, which we managed to do with both the medium and hard compounds. read more »

In Australia this weekend, the medium tyre has been nominated together with soft - the difference between them is expected to be in the region of six-tenths of a second per lap. read more »

For the first time this year, the Formula One teams tried out the full range of Pirelli’s 2012 slick tyres, with the P Zero Silver hard, P Zero White medium, P Zero Yellow soft... read more »

For the start of the 2012 Formula One World Championship season, Pirelli has nominated its slick P Zero compounds for the first three races in Australia, Malaysia and China.... read more »

Pirelli will combine its new soft and medium compound tyres at the first race of the season in Australia read more »

Pirelli supplied 1176 tyres for the first Formula One test of the 2012 season, held at the Jerez circuit in the south of Spain over four days. A total of 3380 laps were covered... read more »

Michael Schumacher topped the timing screens after the second day of winter testing in Jerez, Mark Webber was the quickest of the new 2012 cars. Mercedes have decided not to... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen says that topping the first day of pre-season testing means less to him than the 'positive' first sensations he received from the new Lotus E20 and... read more »

Twenty two points for Scuderia Ferrari in the final race of the season, through a fourth place for Fernando Alonso and a fifth for Felipe Massa. Both drivers ran different... read more »

Jenson Button said that McLaren's decision to switch him onto medium tyres midway through the Brazilian Grand Prix was instrumental in his podium finish read more »

"We are struggling on the medium compound as shown by both Bruno and Vitaly going around 1.5 to 2 seconds quicker on the soft tyre," admits Alan Permane. read more »