There's a gap of around a second between each compound, which is about the target we established at the beginning of the year. read more »

Mario Isola is expecting one-stop strategies to be the norm in Russia, but the choice of tyres for the teams could differ. read more »

Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli is expecting this weekend's Russian Grand Prix to be a one-stop race, given the "low-severity" nature of the Sochi… read more »

Pirelli has ruled out the suggestion from Alain Prost that teams be allowed to 'pick 'n' mix' their tyres. read more »

Lewis Hamilton felt progress has been made during the opening day of the first in-season test of the season in Bahrain, especially when it came to the 2017 Pirelli tyres. read more »

Strategy was at the heart of this race, which was influenced also by an early safety car. read more »

For the second straight race, Haas F1 Team scored a point-paying result as Romain Grosjean delivered an eighth-place finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Frenchman started... read more »

There's still enough of a time difference between the soft and the supersoft tyre to make some variations in strategy possible. read more »

SAKHIR, Bahrain -- Pirelli has scheduled 25 days of testing across eight different circuits with all of Formula One's ten teams in order to develop next year's slick... read more »

Pirelli confirms 2017 F1 tyre testing programme read more »

Pirelli has confirmed its testing plans for its 2018-spec tyres, with all 10 teams set to take part in the running. read more »

Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli has confirmed its extensive 2017 testing schedule, with all 10 teams set to be involved across the course of the… read more »

The entire Formula 1 grid has signed up with Pirelli to join its tyre development test programme this year, with the dates of the extra in-season running now agreed read more »

Despite the runs through the pit lane under the safety car, most of the frontrunners effectively stopped twice showing a limited degree of degradation. read more »

Chinese Grand Prix pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton says he is excited by the prospect of a wet race on Sunday, despite having limited experience running on Pirelli's new... read more »

With no significant running yesterday, the teams headed into qualifying with little data and not much rubber on track. read more »

Having run their new intermediate tyres for the first time at a race weekend in Shanghai, Pirelli have declared that they are significantly quicker. read more »

With Pirelli's new, wider tyres set for their first wet race on Sunday, Max Verstappen says he has confidence in the wet and intermediate compounds. read more »

Today was the GP debut for our 2017-specification wet and intermediate tyres... it wasn't particularly significant due to the lack of running. read more »

Pirelli are hoping that this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix proves that the graining issues that they have seen in recent years are all but gone with the 2017 compounds. read more »

F1 has entered a new era in 2017, with overhauled aerodynamics and much wider Pirelli tyres. GPUpdate.net's technical analyst, Craig Scarborough, looks at five… read more »

Fernando Alonso praised the new technical regulation of Formula One and stressed that Pirelli's new wider and much durable tyres allow the drivers to push very hard and... read more »

All three compounds were used in the race, with the fastest lap - set right at the end of the race - more than two seconds quicker than last year. read more »

After losing ground in the early stages due to struggles with grip on the Ultrasoft Pirelli tyre, Valtteri Bottas' race pace improved significantly when he switched to the... read more »

MELBOURNE, Australia -- For all the excitement surrounding the faster, meaner looking cars Formula One's new rules have produced, the ultimate test for F1 2017 will be the... read more »