What tyres will the teams and drivers have for the 2024 United States Grand Prix?

Formula 1 heads to the Circuit of The Americas for the United States Grand Prix and a weekend of Sprint action – and Pirelli have confirmed the tyres that will be in play.

F1’s official tyre suppliers will provide the three compounds in the middle of their range – the C2 as the hard, the C3 as the medium and the C4 as the soft – at the Austin venue, which has now been almost entirely resurfaced in a project that started two years ago.

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As it is a Sprint weekend, the allocation of tyres drops from 13 sets to 12, with drivers getting two sets of the hards (marked white), four of the mediums (marked yellow) and six of the softs (marked red). The number of wet weather sets remains the same (five intermediate and two wet).

“In terms of the forces exerted on the tyres, the loads at COTA are fairly evenly distributed between the front and rear axles and are more lateral than vertical,” reads Pirelli’s weekend preview.

“Usually, degradation is thermal and is therefore linked to the ambient temperature which in Texas in October can fluctuate considerably from one day to the next.

“In terms of strategy, one will need to wait and see how this might be affected by the new surface, keeping in mind that Saturday’s Sprint should provide plenty of useful data.

“In last year’s short race, the medium was chosen by the majority of drivers, although some risked using the soft, which was then only used in the final stages of the following day’s Grand Prix in an attempt to secure the additional point for setting the fastest race lap.

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“Normally, a two-stop has always been the quickest here, especially as a one-stop involves a lot of careful degradation management, to the obvious detriment of performance.

“In 2023, the most used compound was the C3, which was more effective than the C2, and now it will be interesting to see if the new asphalt could bring the hard back into play.”

For more information about Pirelli’s F1 tyres, visit pirelli.com.