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Drivers sparing on 2018 F1 hard tyre debut at British GP

Just five Formula 1 drivers have opted for more than one set of the new Pirelli hard tyres for the British Grand Prix weekend, while Max Verstappen has picked the fewest sets of soft tyres. With Silverstone traditionally seen as the toughest circuit on tyres on the F1 race calendar, Pirelli has selected for its hardest compound options having announced the new-for-2018 super-hard won’t be used this year. With the hard compound likely to have its only outing of the year at the British Grand Prix the blue-banded tyre has been picked sparingly by all F1 drivers with only Mercedes’s Valtteri Bottas, Red Bull duo Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, Williams’s Sergey Sirotkin and...
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