What tyres will the teams and drivers have for the 2025 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix?

After a flurry of flyaway races to kick off the 2025 season, Formula 1 heads to Europe this weekend for the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari – otherwise known as Imola.

F1 tyre suppliers Pirelli have chosen the softest trio of compounds in their range to take on the classic, 19-turn circuit, naming the all-new C6 as the soft, the C5 as the medium and the C4 as the hard.

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Drivers will get two sets of the hard tyre (marked white), three sets of the medium tyre (marked yellow), and eight sets of the soft tyre (marked red), as well as the green intermediate tyre and the blue full wets, should they be required.

An extra set of softs is reserved for those who reach Q3 in Qualifying, while all drivers must use at least two different slick compounds during the race, providing the track is dry.

Emilia-Romagna will mark the first time the C6 compound has been used on this year’s cars, with Pirelli noting in their weekend preview: “Homologated for use at tracks that stress the tyres the least, the C6 could provide even more grip over a flying lap, especially as the Imola surface is less abrasive than average.

“It’s hard to imagine it being used for a race stint, but data gathered in Imola and then from Monaco and Montreal, will allow the Pirelli engineers to evaluate it for other Grands Prix in the second part of the season.”

As for the strategic outlook, Pirelli continued: “Last year, the one-stop strategy proved the most competitive – 15 drivers started the race on the medium (C4), three on the hard (C3) and two on the soft (C5).

“The harder compounds worked best, offering very consistent performance, with limited degradation, despite track temperatures above 50°C. Those who started on the soft had to make two stops. It will be interesting to see if going one step softer in terms of compounds compared to last year will have an effect.

“There is only one DRS zone with limited opportunities for overtaking elsewhere, added to which the pit lane is the longest on the calendar in terms of time. All these factors combine to make a one-stop the obligatory tradition at this circuit.”

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