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Hard tyres to make their 2018 debut at Silverstone

At Silverstone, the third race in F1's first ever triple-header, the soft, medium and hards will be used. With this year's compounds a step softer than in 2017, this essentially corresponds with last year's choice of supersoft, soft and medium. One set of mediums and one set of hards must be available for the race and one of them must be used at some point in the race, while the soft is the assigned tyre for Q3 in qualifying. The hard was last used at Barcelona last year, and though it was scheduled to be used at subsequent races, complaints from the drivers that it was 'too hard' led to Pirelli abandoning its plans. 'The tyres are already hard enough so the harder compounds are just way...
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