Season 2026 · Round 2 · Tyre usage

Chinese Grand Prix

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2026-03-15 · Shanghai International Circuit · Chinese Grand Prix
Tyre sets across the weekend
Allocation: slick 12 · intermediate 5 · wet 2 — mandatory returns: 1 set after FP1, 3 sets after qualifying, 1 set after the sprint
Used in
Driver
Hard 2
Medium 4
Soft 6
Used
12 Andrea Kimi Antonelli
H146 H2– M111 M210 M3– M4– S111 S29 S33 S4– S5– S6–
6/12 · 90L
63 George Russell
H146 H2– M111 M210 M3– M4– S110 S23 S36 S4– S5– S6–
6/12 · 86L
44 Lewis Hamilton
H146 H2– M110 M2– M3– M4– S119 S210 S33 S4– S5– S6–
5/12 · 88L
16 Charles Leclerc
H146 H2– M15 M210 M3– M4– S111 S23 S33 S43 S56 S6–
8/12 · 87L
87 Oliver Bearman
H146 H2– M11 M225 M310 M4– S19 S23 S33 S4– S5– S6–
7/12 · 97L
10 Pierre Gasly
H146 H2– M123 M225 M310 M4– S13 S23 S33 S4– S5– S6–
7/12 · 113L
30 Liam Lawson
H119 H247 M19 M224 M39 M4– S13 S26 S33 S4– S5– S6–
8/12 · 120L
6 Isack Hadjar
H19 H246 M1– M2– M3– M4– S113 S24 S33 S4– S5– S6–
5/12 · 75L
55 Carlos Sainz
H119 H246 M19 M2– M3– M4– S19 S23 S3– S4– S5– S6–
5/12 · 86L
43 Franco Colapinto
H132 H2– M123 M2– M3– M4– S17 S23 S33 S46 S5– S6–
6/12 · 74L
27 Nico Hülkenberg
H135 H2– M118 M220 M3– M4– S110 S23 S3– S4– S5– S6–
5/12 · 86L
41 Arvid Lindblad
H142 H2– M117 M213 M3– M4– S16 S23 S3– S4– S5– S6–
5/12 · 81L
77 Valtteri Bottas
H145 H2– M19 M212 M310 M4– S18 S23 S33 S4– S5– S6–
7/12 · 90L
31 Esteban Ocon
H129 H2– M125 M217 M3– M4– S19 S23 S39 S4– S5– S6–
6/12 · 92L
11 Sergio Pérez
H144 H2– M113 M211 M3– M4– S13 S26 S3– S4– S5– S6–
5/12 · 77L
3 Max Verstappen
H136 H2– M19 M2– M3– M4– S114 S212 S33 S43 S5– S6–
6/12 · 77L
14 Fernando Alonso
H119 H231 M16 M21 M3– M4– S13 S23 S33 S4– S5– S6–
7/12 · 66L
18 Lance Stroll
H19 H2– M16 M26 M3– M4– S13 S2– S3– S4– S5– S6–
4/12 · 24L
81 Oscar Piastri
H1– H2– M14 M21 M3– M4– S19 S23 S33 S43 S56 S6–
7/12 · 29L
1 Lando Norris
H11 H2– M1– M2– M3– M4– S19 S29 S33 S4– S5– S6–
4/12 · 22L
5 Gabriel Bortoleto
H11 H2– M128 M2– M3– M4– S18 S22 S3– S4– S5– S6–
4/12 · 39L
23 Alexander Albon
H11 H2– M112 M2– M3– M4– S110 S23 S36 S4– S5– S6–
5/12 · 32L
Compounds nominated for this Grand Prix
C2 Hard C3 Medium C4 Soft
Pirelli nominates three of its slick compounds for each event; the higher the C number, the softer the tyre. FIA document ↗
One row per driver; each chip is one tyre set — coloured half is the compound and set number, grey half is laps run on it. Hover a chip for the session-by-session breakdown. Sets are reconstructed from stint tyre age (the source has no set ID), so a set re-fitted later is matched by its accumulated laps. Source OpenF1 (2023+). Outlined chips were never fitted — the per-compound allocation is fixed by the FIA sporting regulations (standard weekend 2 hard / 3 medium / 8 soft, sprint weekend 2 / 4 / 6), so subtracting what was run leaves exactly which sets went unused. A chip marked ↩ is one we estimate was handed back at a mandatory return — it was not fitted again afterwards. The FIA does not publish the actual returns, so treat it as a guess. A lap count shown as ~N is an estimate: the source reported more sets of that compound than the regulations allow (it repeats age 0 when a set is re-fitted), so those sets were merged to fit the allocation. The number of sets is right; how the laps split between them is not certain.
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