What tyres will the teams and drivers have for the 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix?

Formula 1 heads to the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix and a weekend of Sprint action – and Pirelli have confirmed the tyres that will be in play for the event.

F1’s official tyre suppliers will provide the C3 compound as the hard, the C4 as the medium and the C5 as the soft at Interlagos – a softer trio of compounds than those brought to Brazil last year – with all of the 4.309km track having recently been entirely resurfaced, including the pit lane, increasing its abrasiveness.

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As it is a Sprint weekend, the allocation of tyres drops from 13 sets to 12, with drivers getting two sets of the hards (marked white), four of the mediums (marked yellow) and six of the softs (marked red). The number of wet weather sets remains the same (five intermediate and two wet).

“The track surface will be a completely unknown factor for drivers and teams this weekend,” say Pirelli. “Complicating the puzzle still further is the fact Pirelli has chosen to bring a softer trio of compounds to Brazil than last year.

“On top of that it’s a Sprint weekend, so that there is only free practice session for teams to find the best set-up, even if, as was seen in Austin, the ‘short’ race in fact proved to be very useful to fine tune the balance of the car for the actual Grand Prix.