Renault bulks out on Ultrasofts for German GP

Renault has maxed out on its Ultrasoft tyre picks for the German Grand Prix with ten sets each for Nico Hulkenerg and Carlos Sainz Jr, as Pirelli confirms each team’s F1 tyre choices for Hockenheim.

Pirelli has selected Ultasoft, soft and medium as its three tyre options for Hockenheim, with Renault opting to stack up its softest options compared to its F1 rivals.

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10 Jul 2018

Renault bulks out on Ultrasofts for German GP

Pirelli has selected Ultasoft, soft and medium as its three tyre options for Hockenheim, with Renault opting to stack up its softest options compared to its F1 rivals.

Williams is the closest to Renault’s allocation with nine sets each of the purple-banded tyres for Sergey Sirotkin and Lance Stroll with all of the other eight teams opting for either seven or eight sets of the softest compound.

In a number of inter-team driver splits, Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen and Haas’ Kevin Magnussen have selected the most soft tyre sets across the F1 drivers with five sets each, while Renault’s Sainz has selected just one set of softs.