{"id":604985,"date":"2026-04-13T22:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604985\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:31:10","slug":"pirelli-confirm-key-choice-for-upcoming-f1-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604985\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli confirm key choice for upcoming F1 races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli has revealed that it will use the softest tyres in its range at the upcoming Miami and Canadian Grands Prix.<\/p>\n<p>This will see the use of the C3, C4 and C5 compounds across both race weekends.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian marque brought the softest options to the season-opening round in Australia before scaling back the choices for China and Australia, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>F1 is in the middle of a five-week break due to the cancellation of races in the Middle East, with Miami set to resume the campaign at the start of May.<\/p>\n<p>For the event around the Miami International Autodrome, which features very smooth asphalt, Pirelli outlined that degradation is predominantly thermal, due to the high temperatures in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>In Montreal, which will take place two weeks after Miami, Pirelli will once again use the softest range.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Pirelli&#8217;s span of compounds extended to the C6 tyre, which was used in Canada before being dropped at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Pirelli has detailed that the softest tyres have been chosen \u201cthanks to a track surface that is not very abrasive and to provide adequate grip in areas where the cars are subjected to heavy deceleration\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pirelli has revealed that it will use the softest tyres in its range at the upcoming Miami and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-604985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}