Just as it was for last weekend's United States Grand Prix, the tyres Pirelli will be supplying for this weekend's Mexico Grand Prix will be the P Zero Yellow soft, the P Zero Red supersoft and the P Zero Purple ultrasoft (which reverts to its usual colour after turning pink in Austin!).
The Autรณdromo Hermanos Rodrรญguez, named after Mexico's famous racing brothers, is one of the quickest tracks of the year, and โ as has been the case on a few occasions already this season โ it's the first time that the ultrasoft has been nominated there.
With the race only returning to the calendar two years ago, expect to see more lap records broken this weekend.
โIn Mexico, we again maintain our principle of bringing softer compounds than last year whenever possible, in the pursuit of increased performance and more exciting races,โ said Pirelli's Mario Isola. โThis is actually the second consecutive year that we are bringing a new tyre to Mexico, as last year the supersoft was nominated there for the first time.โ
โOnly two races have been run on the current version of the track before, so it's not one of the venues that the teams are most familiar with. This means that there will be some learning to do with the ultrasoft in particular during free practiceโ.
