Championship contenders Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have made the same tyre selections for next week’s Mexican Grand Prix.
The pair have selected eight sets of the hyper-soft tyre, the softest rubber in Pirelli’s range, along with three sets of ultra-softs and two of the super-softs.All the other teams have chosen more sets of the hyper-softs than Mercedes and Ferrari. Renault and Sauber have picked 10 sets for each of their drivers.
Last year’s Mexican Grand Prix was won by Max Verstappen who ran a one-stop strategy, switching from ultra-softs to super-softs. Both Red Bull drivers have nine sets of hyper-softs tyres for this year’s race.
2018 Mexican Grand Prix tyre selections
| Driver | Team | Tyres |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes |    |
| Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | |
| Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | |
| Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | |
| Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | |
| Max Verstappen | Red Bull | |
| Sergio Perez | Force India | |
| Esteban Ocon | Force India | |
| Lance Stroll | Williams | |
| Sergey Sirotkin | Williams | |
| Carlos Sainz Jnr | Renault | |
| Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | |
| Pierre Gasly | Toro Rosso | |
| Brendon Hartley | Toro Rosso | |
| Romain Grosjean | Haas | |
| Kevin Magnussen | Haas | |
| Fernando Alonso | McLaren | |
| Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | |
| Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | |
| Charles Leclerc | Sauber | |
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BasCB (@bascb)
16th October 2018, 21:33
good. I want to see Vettel do a lap like the best he knows how to do them and put that Ferrari on pole. And have a mercedes right on his gearbox for most of the race.
CarWars (@maxv)
16th October 2018, 23:28
Max for the win
BasCB (@bascb)
17th October 2018, 7:58
:-)
Dewald Nel (@ho3n3r)
17th October 2018, 8:35
Why? Are Mercedes withdrawing from the weekend?
greg-c (@greg-c)
16th October 2018, 23:31
Id like to see that for more than just a half dozen races in a whole year
David BR (@david-br)
16th October 2018, 23:34
Ferrari finally getting sensible when the season’s over.
Nitzo (@webtel)
17th October 2018, 6:30
@david-br
I hope we can say the same after the race too.
BasCB (@bascb)
17th October 2018, 7:58
yeah, that occurred to me too.
Jere (@jerejj)
17th October 2018, 10:02
@david-br These choices were made long ago, though. Sometime in July when the title fight was still wide-open.
David BR (@david-br)
17th October 2018, 11:39
@jerejj I know, it was meant a bit ironically, though it still applies. I guess they realized the mistake with too radical tyre choices somewhere down the line.
Nitzo (@webtel)
17th October 2018, 6:29
Renault’s choices show their desperation towards getting into Q3 whatsoever. Their strategies have barely paid off–further compounded by issues with the car.