Pirelli announces tyre count for 2020 Formula 1 races

As the Formula 1 calendar is still very unclear and everything has to be planned in the short term, there will be no freedom of tyre choice for the teams in 2020. Pirelli will determine the numbers and they are already fixed.

Earlier it became clear that the Formula 1 teams no longer have a choice in the amount of tyres they want. In recent years Pirelli chose the type of tyre that would go with it and the dry weather tyres allowed the teams to decide for themselves how much of each tyre they wanted to have. However, this is no longer logistically feasible for Pirelli.

How many tyres are allowed?

In the short term, the Italian tyre supplier first had to decide which tyres to bring to the race and could no longer wait for the teams' quantities. The FIA has therefore adapted the regulations so that Pirelli can select the quantity of tyres and make them before the start of the season.

During each weekend a driver will now have two sets of hard tyres at his disposal, three of the medium tyre and no less than eight of the softest tyre. Which compound this is, depends on Pirelli's choice. Every weekend the Italians decide which tyres will be included in the range from C1 to C5 and that's what the teams have to do with. For Austria the drivers have two C2 tyres, three C3 tyres and eight C4 tyres.