Pirelli reveal driver tyre choices for Australia

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Pirelli have revealed the tyres that each driver has selected for the opening race of the season in Australia.

Interestingly, world champions Mercedes are one of just three teams (along with Sauber and Haas) to have differing strategies for each of their drivers, with Lewis Hamilton favouring an extra set of the soft tyres than team mate Rosberg. The German's choices meanwhile are identical to those selected by both Ferrari drivers.

Elsewhere, several teams have opted to select seven sets of supersoft tyres, while only Manor have opted to pick more than two sets of medium tyres, with Rio Haryanto and Pascal Wehrlein going for four each.

The individual driver choices are shown below:

Under new-for-2016 regulations, Pirelli are now making three, rather than two, of their five dry-weather tyre compounds available at each event.

The Italian company allocates two sets of tyres for the race (only one of which must be used) and one set which can only be used in Q3 (the softest of the chosen three compounds). Each driver is then able to choose 10 further sets of tyres from the three compounds - which for Australia are supersoft, soft and medium - to take their weekend allocation to 13.

Australia - selected tyre sets per driver

DriverTeamMediumSoftSupersoft
Lewis HamiltonMercedes166
Nico RosbergMercedes256
Sebastian VettelFerrari256
Kimi RaikkonenFerrari256
Valtteri BottasWilliams157
Felipe MassaWilliams157
Daniel RicciardoRed Bull247
Daniil KvyatRed Bull247
Kevin MagnussenRenault157
Jolyon PalmerRenault157
Nico HulkenbergForce India256
Sergio PerezForce India256
Max VerstappenToro Rosso247
Carlos SainzToro Rosso247
Fernando AlonsoMcLaren157
Jenson ButtonMcLaren157
Marcus EricssonSauber166
Felipe NasrSauber256
Pascal WehrleinManor445
Rio HaryantoManor445
Romain GrosjeanHaas157
Esteban GutierrezHaas247

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