Pirelli will remain Formula 1’s exclusive tyre supplier through the end of the 2028 season after a one-year extension to its existing contract. Reports differ on whether Pirelli or the FIA/Formula One Group exercised the one-year option built into the 2023 agreement that had been due to run to the end of 2027. The extension also preserves Pirelli’s exclusive supply role for the FIA single-seater ladder—Formula 2, Formula 3 and F1 Academy—and extends the uninterrupted partnership that began in 2011 to an 18-year run through 2028.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said the renewal provides stability and reflects Pirelli’s technical performance, innovation and safety priorities. Pirelli Executive Vice Chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera said the deal is important to keep F1 as a laboratory for tyre research and development. The FIA and the Formula One Group framed the agreement as reinforcing their commercial and technical partnership with Pirelli.
The extension gives teams and organisers continuity as they adapt to the 2026 regulation overhaul; Pirelli developed its latest compounds for those rules, which included a slight tyre-width reduction drivers have had to adjust to. At the time of the announcement, Pirelli’s wet tyres had not yet been used in competition in 2026.
Pirelli first returned as F1’s sole supplier in 2011, has supplied Grand Prix racing as far back as 1950, and has supplied 500 Grands Prix; the company reported tyres covering 334,942 kilometres over a full race distance. The announcement was presented as a business decision to secure supply continuity and recognise Pirelli’s ongoing technical contributions to the sport.
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