Pirelli will bring the same compound range to Zandvoort as last year — C2 hard, C3 medium, C4 soft — but the Sprint format shrinks allocation from 13 sets to 12. Teams get two hards, four mediums, and six softs to cover both Saturday's Sprint and Sunday's Grand Prix.
Zandvoort remains one of the grid's trickiest venues for tyre management. The track sits 40km from Amsterdam, where sand blows in from nearby beaches and kills grip session to session. Add two steeply banked turns — 19 and 18 degrees — that load the sidewalls like Budapest, and teams face a narrow setup window with just one hour of practice to dial it in.
The hard compound should anchor most Sunday strategies, while the softer two will fight for Sprint duty. Overtaking is notoriously difficult here — one straight, tight track width — so starting position matters more than usual. Expect strategy to hinge on track position, not tyre delta.
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