Although there will be a range of five to six compounds in 2019, Pirelli will have only three set colours for the entire season. This year's colours and names have proven rather confusing for Formula 1 fans, prompting Pirelli to take action. Instead of having names ranging from hard to hypersoft, they will instead have just three. And those three will have set colours: white for hard, yellow for medium and red for soft. Pirelli's racing director Mario Isola said: 'We wanted to eliminate the rainbow as we had too many colours – so we wanted to have just three.' Numbers change, performance remains. Gearing down from 7 to 3 colours: for the 2019 F1 season we'll be out on the tracks...
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