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Hamilton, Rosberg differ on tyre choices for Austria

 XPB Images Pirelli has announced the tyre choices made by each team for the Austrian Grand Prix, with a small difference in compound allocations for Mercedes team-mates and title rivals Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. As part of new regulations, teams can now pick from three different compounds, with an allocation of 13 sets per driver. Of those 13 sets, Pirelli will select two sets that have to be allocated for the race (of which a driver must use one set), while a set of the softest available compound may only be used in Q3. Teams are then free to choose the remaining ten sets. Pirelli has nominated the soft, supersoft and new-for-2016 ultrasoft tyre for the Red Bull Ring...
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