Pirelli would be the title sponsor of the British and Italian grands prix subsequent season, the 2 historic races which have featured on the F1 world championship schedule probably the most instances.
This yr, the Italian firm contested its five hundredth grand prix and subsequent yr, when it’s set to surpass Goodyear as probably the most profitable provider of F1 tyres – as a result of there is no such thing as a opposition – it’ll put its title to the race weekends at Silverstone (3 -5 July) and Monza (4-6 September).
These two races are the one ones to have been a part of the world championship, underneath the identical title, yearly, because it was established in 1950 and have due to this fact been on the calendar 76 instances, an outright file for the game.
As System 1’s international tyre accomplice, Pirelli can even boast an extended custom within the sport. Established in 1872, it’s the tyre provider with probably the most participations (at the moment 505 grands prix) relationship again to the very first championship race.
The 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone was in truth gained by Giuseppe Farina on the wheel of a Pirelli-shod Alfa Romeo (prime). That very same yr, the Italian driver additionally gained the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the ultimate spherical of the season.
Silverstone and the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, then as now the venues for his or her respective nationwide Grands Prix, are two of the three most historic everlasting circuits nonetheless on the calendar, the opposite being Spa-Francorchamps.
Monza, the Temple of Pace, is Pirelli’s residence race, its headquarters being just some kilometres from the observe. It was inaugurated over a century in the past and instantly grew to become the favoured venue for testing the Milan-based firm’s street tyres.
