US GP: Ferrari/Mercedes diverge slightly on tyre choices

Pirelli has made the soft, super-soft and ultra-soft tyres available for the Austin race, which is one step softer than last year.

While Mercedes and Ferrari have chosen seven sets of the ultra-soft tyre for each of their drivers, Ferrari has favoured more of the super-softs.

Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel have five and four sets of the red-walled rubber respectively, while Lewis Hamilton has three and Valtteri Bottas four.

That leaves Raikkonen with just one set of softs, while Vettel and Bottas have two sets and championship leader Hamilton three.

Red Bull duo Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen's selections match that of Vettel and Bottas with two sets of softs, four super-softs and seven ultra-softs.

McLaren and Williams have opted for the most sets of ultra-softs with Fernando Alonso, Stoffel Vandoorne, Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll having nine apiece.

United States Grand Prix tyre choices


Driver	Team	Soft	Super-soft	Ultra-soft
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	3	3	7
Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	2	4	7
Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	2	4	7
Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	2	4	7
Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	2	4	7
Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	5	7
Sergio Perez	Force India	2	3	8
Esteban Ocon	Force India	2	3	8
Felipe Massa	Williams	2	2	9
Lance Stroll	Williams	1	3	9
Fernando Alonso	McLaren	2	2	9
Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	1	3	9
Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	2	3	8
TBC	Toro Rosso	2	3	8
Romain Grosjean	Haas	1	5	7
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	2	4	7
Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	2	3	8
Carlos Sainz Jr	Renault	2	3	8
Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	2	4	7
Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber	3	3	7