Championship contenders Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have made the same tyre selections for next week’s Mexican Grand Prix. The pair have selected eight sets of the hyper-soft tyre, the softest rubber in Pirelli’s range, along with three sets of ultra-softs and two of the super-softs.
All the other teams have chosen more sets of the hyper-softs than Mercedes and Ferrari. Renault and Sauber have picked 10 sets for each of their drivers.
Last year’s Mexican Grand Prix was won by Max Verstappen who ran a one-stop strategy, switching from ultra-softs to super-softs. Both Red Bull drivers have nine sets of hyper-softs tyres for this year’s race.
2018 Mexican Grand Prix tyre selections
| Driver | Team | Tyres |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes |    |
| Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | |
| Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | |
| Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | |
| Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | |
| Max Verstappen | Red Bull | |
| Sergio Perez | Force India | |
| Esteban Ocon | Force India | |
| Lance Stroll | Williams | |
| Sergey Sirotkin | Williams | |
| Carlos Sainz Jnr | Renault | |
| Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | |
| Pierre Gasly | Toro Rosso | |
| Brendon Hartley | Toro Rosso | |
| Romain Grosjean | Haas | |
| Kevin Magnussen | Haas | |
| Fernando Alonso | McLaren | |
| Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | |
| Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | |
| Charles Leclerc | Sauber | |
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