Russell crashes and neither Verstappen or Albon post times in second practice session dedicated to validating Pirelli's softer compounds for 2025. read more »

FP2 will be entirely given over to validating the softer compounds in Pirelli's 2025 range (C4, C5 and C6) in what is known as an in-competition test. read more »

Pirelli is assessing whether a compound that is even softer than the current softest of its five-compound range, the C5 tyre could add to the excitement of races in the future. read more »

The world champion squad endured a challenging time at the Monaco Grand Prix as Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez struggled to extract pace from their RB20.Its car behaved like... read more »

McLaren's Lando Norris and Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell completed Q3 on the theoretically slower medium as teams battle to mitigate overheating... read more »

Verstappen skated around the Miami Autodrome on his only lap in the top 10 shootout, but his nearest rivals also struggled to improve on their SQ2 times despite bolting on... read more »

Traditionally, the event has been seen as a one-stopper, but this year Pirelli opted to go a step softer than previously and bring its C3, C4 and C5 compounds in an attempt to... read more »

Pirelli has confirmed that it will bring its softest tyre compounds for this weekend’s Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, including the scarcely used C5 compound. The move means... read more »

The Brackley squad focused on long stints rather than glory runs across the three-day winter test in Bahrain, with George Russell taking second on the final day using softer C4... read more »

With the Italian company electing to stick with its current tyre specification for next year, teams are already well-versed on their behaviour. So, with little more to... read more »

In Mexico the teams will have C3 as hard, C4 as medium and C5 as soft: one step softer compared to 2022. Mexico also gives us the chance to try out a new variant of the C4. read more »

Mercedes' George Russell passed polewinner and early leader Piastri soon after a restart on lap three, but Russell's pace on softer tyres fell away as the sprint... read more »

Pirelli looks likely to avoid making any revisions to the C2 tyre compound for the 2024 Formula 1 season after conducting tests during the Japanese Grand Prix last month. F1’s... read more »

F1's official tyre supplier has been evaluating some minor tweaks to next year's tyre compound selection in a bid to tidy up some minor issues.One of the areas it... read more »

Alex was able to find improvements as we stepped through to the softer compounds, but Logan found it more difficult. read more »

Once again ATA limits running as big guns opt to save the softer compounds for the remainder of the weekend. read more »

Following two race weekends that saw Pirelli supply softer compounds, the Milan-based manufacturer's new C1 tyre compound will make its return this weekend when the F1... read more »

Formula One's tyre supplier Pirelli will provide teams and drivers with an exciting tyre allocation for this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix, bringing some of the softer... read more »

The Briton and team-mate George Russell ran a different programme to other squads on the opening day of action, as they steered clear of using the soft tyre in FP1. However,... read more »

Most people see Roy Keane as a football hard man who is now just as abrasive as a TV pundit, but Eddie Jordan has revealed how F1 revealed a much softer side to the Irish legend. read more »

TV coverage showed the car bottoming heavily at times during the test as it appeared to tend towards bouncing.However, Harman insisted that was a result of experiments that... read more »

After a series of quick laps on Pirelli's softer compounds, Charles Leclerc found himself on top of the board with a time of 1m31.024s, beating Mercedes racer George... read more »

Verstappen, the only driver to run for the full day as all other F1 teams split their programmes, put in a 1m32.837s midway through the afternoon to improve on his effort that... read more »

The Yas Marina's characteristics aren't particularly demanding for the tyres. The asphalt is not especially abrasive, which allows the use of the softer compounds. read more »

The extended 90-minute session saw drivers focus on running Pirelli's prototype rubber for next year, building on the findings from Austin one week ago with a softer... read more »