F1 tyre strategy: stints, pit stops and compounds, race by race

Built from the official timing data of every race PITWALL has processed

A race is decided as much by when the cars stop and what they put on as by raw pace. PITWALL draws every driver's stints and compounds on one chart, lists each pit stop, and shows where a stop would drop a driver in the order. Below is what the data of each processed race says: the most common strategy, how many stops the finishers made, and how long each compound lasted.

How to read it in PITWALL

• Tyre strategy window: every stint of every driver with its compound and age, and who has already pitted. Colours follow the usual convention: red soft, yellow medium, white hard, green intermediate, blue wet.
• Pit stops window: every stop, ranked by stationary time, with the time through the whole pit lane and the tyres before and after.
• Pit window: where each driver would rejoin if he stopped now.
• Race trace: the gap to the leader lap by lap, where pit stops and undercuts show up as steps and shapes.

Strategy by race

Finishers only (at least 90% of the race distance). "Most common" is the compound sequence the most finishers used.

How long each compound lasts

Across 41 races, finishers' stints. Track, fuel load and temperature differ from race to race, so read it as a rough guide.

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