After a flurry of flyaway races to kick off the 2025 season, Method 1 heads to Europe this weekend for the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari – in any other case generally known as Imola.
F1 tyre suppliers Pirelli have chosen the softest trio of compounds of their vary to tackle the basic, 19-turn circuit, naming the all-new C6 because the smooth, the C5 because the medium and the C4 because the exhausting.
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Drivers will get two units of the exhausting tyre (marked white), three units of the medium tyre (marked yellow), and eight units of the smooth tyre (marked purple), in addition to the inexperienced intermediate tyre and the blue full wets, ought to they be required.
An additional set of softs is reserved for individuals who attain Q3 in Qualifying, whereas all drivers should use at the very least two totally different slick compounds through the race, offering the observe is dry.
Emilia-Romagna will mark the primary time the C6 compound has been used on this yr’s automobiles, with Pirelli noting of their weekend preview: “Homologated to be used at tracks that stress the tyres the least, the C6 may present much more grip over a flying lap, particularly because the Imola floor is much less abrasive than common.
