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Pirelli names tyre compounds for first four races

Pirelli has named its tyre compound choices for the first four races of the 2015 Formula One season.

The new season starts with the Australian Grand Prix next weekend and Pirelli will supply the medium and soft compound tyres for the Albert Park circuit, with the tyre manufacturer admitting the supersoft is still an unknown compound.

Malaysia's high temperatures coupled with an abrasive track surface sees the hardest two compounds in Pirelli's range - the hard and medium - selected for the second race at Sepang.

This year's calendar sees the Chinese Grand Prix take place before Bahrain as back-to-back races, and both will again see the medium and soft tyre compounds selected. Bahrain is a circuit which is particularly tough on rear tyres, with Pirelli having worked on a stronger construction to ensure the rear tyres are less of a limiting factor this season.

The choices are the same as in 2014, with the medium tyre also having been suited to the majority of running which took place during the cooler pre-season testing conditions at the Circuit de Catalunya over the past two weeks.

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Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.