Pirelli's Head of F1 and car racing, Mario Isola praised Lewis Hamilton‘s tyre management at the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix that saw the Brit take victory using a softer compound tyre that his rivals. The Mercedes-AMG Motorsport team opted to bring Hamilton in on the eleventh lap of the race under the safety car conditions, choosing the Medium C4 compound for both of the silver arrows, whilst both Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen were swapped to the Hard C3 compound. Further down the order Renault F1 Team's Daniel Ricciardo and Haas F1 Team's Kevin Magnussen also both opted for the C4 tyre. One lap later Valtteri Bottas pitted again, changing to the Hard C3...
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