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2024
18
March
2024
| 11:10 Europe/Amsterdam
Milan, 18 March 2024 - Pirelli’s C5 tyre – the softest of the five slick compounds available this year – will make its debut at the Australian Grand Prix: round three of the 2024 season. This has been nominated alongside the C4 (as used in Jeddah)
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14
March
2024
| 18:05 Europe/Amsterdam
Milan, 14 March - Pirelli has revealed the nominated compounds available for the forthcoming grands prix in Japan, China and Miami, covering the period from April 7 to May 5. At Suzuka, one of the most demanding tracks for tyres in terms of loads,
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09
March
2024
| 21:33 Europe/Amsterdam
Red Bull has stamped its authority on the season so far with another one-two finish here in Jeddah, with Max Verstappen winning from team-mate Sergio Perez, in a repeat of last week’s race result in Sakhir. And yet again, a Ferrari driver completed
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08
March
2024
| 21:50 Europe/Amsterdam
From the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, the outcome of qualifying remains the same with Max Verstappen once again securing pole position. Whereas, a week ago in Sakhir, Charles Leclerc actually set the fastest lap of the whole qualifying, in Jeddah,
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07
March
2024
| 21:13 Europe/Amsterdam
Fernando Alonso was the fastest driver on track at the first day of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. In the second session, run in the same temperatures the drivers will encounter tomorrow in qualifying and during Saturday’s race, the Spaniard took his
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05
March
2024
| 09:59 Europe/Amsterdam
Milan, 5 March 2024 - Just a few days on from the curtain raiser in Bahrain, Formula 1 has decamped from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea for round 2, which runs from Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 March. While the distance, as the crow flies, from the
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02
March
2024
| 19:49 Europe/Amsterdam
Could there be a better way to start the season than with a Grand Chelem? That’s exactly what Max Verstappen did at the Bahrain Grand Prix, with a dominant performance that saw him not only win the race, but also take pole position, as well leading
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01
March
2024
| 20:12 Europe/Amsterdam
Max Verstappen picked up the 33rd pole position of his career, carrying on where he left off at the end of 2023, in other words by outqualifying the rest of the field. The Red Bull driver was fastest in Q3 (1:29.179), 228 thousandths quicker than
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29
February
2024
| 19:18 Europe/Amsterdam
The opening weekend of the longest season in Formula 1 history saw Mercedes write the first headline. The Toto Wolff-run team had both its drivers at the top of the time sheet come the end of the second free practice session, the one that is most
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26
February
2024
| 15:28 Europe/Amsterdam
Milan, 26 February 2024 - Just a week after pre-season testing concluded, Formula 1 returns to Bahrain for the first round of the 2024 season, from Thursday February 29 to Saturday March 2. The usual grand prix weekend schedule has been brought
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23
February
2024
| 18:48 Europe/Amsterdam
Sakhir, 23 February – Ferrari topped the testing time sheet on two days out of the three. Yesterday, Carlos Sainz was the quickest man on track, while today it fell to Charles Leclerc to go to the top of the classification. Behind the wheel for
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22
February
2024
| 18:36 Europe/Amsterdam
Sakhir, 22 February – The spotlight fell on Ferrari on the day that has just come to a close at the Sakhir circuit in Bahrain. Its two drivers topped the time sheet both in the morning and afternoon sessions, firstly with Charles Leclerc who posted
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21
February
2024
| 19:27 Europe/Amsterdam
Sakhir, 21 February – It seems the 2024 season is starting the way the last one finished, in other words, with Verstappen leading the field. The three times world champion was quickest on the first of three days of testing at the Sakhir Circuit,
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2023
21
December
2023
| 10:33 Europe/Amsterdam
In total, Pirelli’s Formula 1 tyres drove nearly eight times around Earth’s circumference throughout the 22 Grands Prix that made up the 2023 season. Specifically, 307,925.8 kilometres were travelled over 60,473 laps by the 6,847 sets of tyres that
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01
December
2023
| 14:21 Europe/Amsterdam
Just a few days after the 2023 season concludes, preparations are already underway for next year. As a result, Pirelli has already communicated the selection for the first three races next year in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Australia.All five
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28
November
2023
| 16:53 Europe/Amsterdam
With the world championship drawing to a close last Sunday, there was just one more day of testing to be completed at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, with all 10 teams running two cars each.The programme was split into two parts, with one car
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26
November
2023
| 17:30 Europe/Amsterdam
Max Verstappen produced the best possible finish to what was the best season of any driver in the history of Formula 1. Today, he took his 19th win from 22 races, bringing the triple world champion’s total number of victories to 54, which puts him
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25
November
2023
| 18:16 Europe/Amsterdam
Max Verstappen was totally dominant in the final qualifying session of 2023, fastest in all three parts, getting down to a time of 1’23”445 on his first Q3 run, enough to secure his fourth consecutive Yas Marina pole position. It was his 12th this
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24
November
2023
| 16:40 Europe/Amsterdam
The first free practice session for the final round of the Formula 1 season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, featured no fewer than ten “rookie” drivers on track. Best of the bunch was Brazil’s Felipe Drugovich, the winner of last year’s FIA Formula 2
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21
November
2023
| 10:04 Europe/Amsterdam
MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT    “We go from the lights of Las Vegas to the Abu Dhabi sunset in the space of just a few days, after a journey of just over 13,000 kilometres, for a race that is now well-established as
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19
November
2023
| 10:50 Europe/Amsterdam
The Las Vegas Strip Circuit really lived up to the city’s reputation for thrills and excitement tonight and, as usual this year Max Verstappen came out on top. However, the three times world champion had to fight hard for this one. Alongside him on
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18
November
2023
| 12:09 Europe/Amsterdam
Charles Leclerc is the first pole sitter at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit. The Ferrari driver dominated qualifying, fastest in all three mini-sessions. Proving the Maranello marque’s superiority is the fact that Carlos Sainz was second fastest, just
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17
November
2023
| 15:04 Europe/Amsterdam
The Ferrari drivers were the undoubted front-runners on the first day of track action at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit. Charles Leclerc topped the time sheets from both sessions: the FP1 time did not mean much as the session only lasted eight minutes,
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13
November
2023
| 14:19 Europe/Amsterdam
MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT    “Formula 1 returns to the United States for the third time this year, following Miami and Austin. And it’s with one of the most-eagerly grands prix of the year, in Las Vegas, where the
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05
November
2023
| 22:01 Europe/Amsterdam
Max Verstappen has won the third edition of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. The result was never really in any doubt, even if second placed Lando Norris finished within ten seconds of the winner and claimed the extra point for the race fastest lap,
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04
November
2023
| 21:56 Europe/Amsterdam
Max Verstappen was the dominant force in today’s Sprint in Austin. The three-time world champion made up for the disappointment of his performance in yesterday’s qualifying to take pole in the Shootout and then go on to win the Sprint, even though
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03
November
2023
| 22:22 Europe/Amsterdam
On Sunday afternoon, Max Verstappen will start the third edition of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix from pole position. The Dutchman was quickest of the ten drivers who had made the cut to Q3, all of them only getting one run completed before the rain
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01
November
2023
| 15:00 Europe/Amsterdam
The final two Formula 1 races of the 2023 season will see the softest selection of Pirelli's six compounds on track. At both Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi, teams will use the C3 as P Zero White hard, C4 as P Zero Yellow medium and C5 as P Zero Red
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31
October
2023
| 11:00 Europe/Amsterdam
MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT   “The Interlagos circuit in the Brazilian city of São Paulo is well-known for providing thrilling races. The lap is only 4.309 kilometres long, making it one of the shortest of the year, with
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30
October
2023
| 00:39 Europe/Amsterdam
Another win for Max Verstappen, his 16th of the season, another record for most wins in a year. It was the Dutchman’s 51st career success, which sees him equal Alain Prost in fourth place on the all-time winners list. The three drivers ahead of him
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