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Leading teams split on Malaysia compound choices

Title rivals Mercedes and Ferrari have taken a different approach to tyre compound choices for next weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix. Pirelli has nominated the Supersoft, Soft and Medium compounds in order to deal with the demands posed by the Sepang Circuit. Each driver has 13 sets of tyres available for the weekend’s action, and are permitted free choice of compound for 10 of the allocated sets. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will both have seven sets of Supersofts available, with Hamilton having five sets of Soft and one Medium, as opposed to Bottas’ five Softs and two Mediums. Ferrari, meanwhile, has plumped for nine sets of Supersofts, three sets of Softs and just...
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