The drivers? tyre choices for the second round of the season have been announced by Pirelli.
The super-soft tyre is again the most widely preferred choice with most teams selecting six or seven sets of the softest rubber.
Melbourne front-runners Mercedes and Ferrari are taking six sets for each of their drivers but have differed over their selection of medium tyres. The harder rubber was used by Mercedes to great effect in Australia to take a one-two finish but their have only chosen a single set for this weekend whereas Ferrari has opted for three.
Last year all bar one of the top ten finishers in the Bahrain Grand Prix ran two stints on soft tyres and one on mediums.
Here are the drivers? tyre choices in full for the Bahrain Grand Prix:
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