What tyres will the teams and drivers have for the 2025 United States Grand Prix?

Formula 1 rolls on to Austin’s Circuit of The Americas (COTA) for the United States Grand Prix this weekend, with tyre supplier Pirelli confirming the compounds that will be in play.

It is the second Grand Prix of the season where Pirelli are bringing three non-consecutive compounds (the last being Spa-Francorchamps), and the available tyres will again be the C1 as the hard, the C3 as the medium and the C4 as the soft.

With the Sprint format in play this weekend, drivers will be given 12 sets of tyres rather than the usual 13. Each will receive two sets of the hard, four sets of the medium and six sets of soft, as well as five sets of intermediates and two sets of wets.

“In Belgium, bad weather meant it was not possible to find out how this choice might have affected strategy and so the event in COTA could be the first real test of this choice, which sees the use of a harder hard than last year at the American track, while the medium and soft are the same,” reads Pirelli’s event preview.

“The increased performance difference between the hardest compound and the middle one should, theoretically, give rise to two scenarios.

“If drivers prefer the C1, the slowest but also the most consistent of the three, then they could run a one-stop race combining it with the C3. On the other hand, using the latter along with the C4, with its improved resistance to degradation, would produce quicker lap times but would almost certainly require two stops.

“Another similarity with the Belgian round is that Austin is also running to the Sprint format, which means teams only have one hour to try the various options over long and short runs, which could add to the uncertainty as to how the weekend might pan out.”

For more information about Pirelli’s F1 tyres, visit pirelli.com.