Pirelli 2025 Tyre Compound Selections AUT - UK - BEL - HUN


By Courtesy of Pirelli
May 30 2025

 
 Pirelli 2025 Tyre Compound Selections Austria - Britain - Belgium - Hungary
 
Pirelli Tyre Choices
 
Pirelli Tyre Choices
 
Pirelli Tyre Choices

 
Pirelli Tyre Choices
 
Pirelli has informed the teams of the compounds chosen for the Grands Prix in the run up to the summer break: Austria, Great Britain, Belgium and Hungary. The selection from Formula 1’s Global Tyre Partner decided on in conjunction with the FIA and Formula 1 includes both new and familiar choices. The compounds for the races in Spielberg and Budapest are the same as last year, while there are significant changes for Silverstone and Spa.

Let’s start with the familiar. For the races in Austria (27 to 29 June) and Hungary (1-3 August) any historical reference is purely coincidental and the teams will be able to use the C3 as Hard, the C4 as Medium and the C5 as Soft. Although these two tracks are almost identical in length – 4.318 km for Spielberg, 4.381 km for the Hungaroring – they have very different characteristics. The former is very fast with just ten corners and quite long straights, the second is very twisty with only one straight, but the forces exerted on the tyres are not particularly severe.

It’s a completely different story when it comes to Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps, two of the most appealing tracks on the calendar, famous for all sorts of reasons, including the levels of stress they impose on the tyres. Usually for Silverstone, Pirelli has selected the hardest trio of available compounds, but this year the decision has been taken to go one step softer, therefore the Hard is the C2, the Medium the C3 and the Soft the C4. As for Spa-Francorchamps, two of the compounds are the same as last year’s and they fit in the same order, namely the C3 as Medium and the C4 as Soft. However, unlike in 2024 when the Hard was the C2, this time it will be the C1.

This choice is in line with similar ones at some races in the early part of the season with the aim of allowing for a greater choice of race strategies, which could make the one-stop and two-stop equally attractive. In Silverstone, the challenge will be to manage the Medium, which for the past two years actually served as the Soft. While in Spa, which is also a Sprint event, those opting for the Hard, with the idea of stopping just once, will have to take into consideration the performance difference that now separates the C1 from the C2, which was last year’s Hard.
 
Pirelli Tyre Choices 2025
 

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