Norris has slight tyre advantage over the rest of the grid in Saudi Arabia

Sunday's Grand Prix always means strategy and tyre choice will come into their own, especially at this weekend's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Lando Norris is the only driver to come into this race with a slight difference in tyre allocation, as race strategies may look slightly different to last weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix.

Strategy to be a bit simpler than Bahrain

Around the Bahrain International Circuit, tyre degradation was extremely high, resulting in a two or three-stop strategies being used to shake up the tyre choices and pit stop windows. In Jeddah this weekend, that looks to be different.

Tyre manufacturer Pirelli believe the best strategy for drivers this Grand Prix is a one-stop strategy, with a start on the medium tyre and changing onto the hard tyres, or vice versa, being the way to go.

Pirelli's possible race strategies for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix

Slight tyre difference for Norris compared to the rest

In regard to what tyres each driver has at their disposal for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, there is not much difference from the front team, apart from Norris.

Due to his crash at the beginning of Q3, the Brit did not get the chance to set a flying lap, which resulted in him not using his final set of new soft tyres to set his second flying lap of the session. As a result, he will start from P10.

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All three of them, along with Charles Leclerc in fourth and Kimi Antonelli in fifth, all have two new sets of hard tyres at their disposal for the Grand Prix, along with one set of medium tyres and only three used sets of soft tyres, with no new ones remaining.

Carlos Sainz in P6 has it slightly different, with just the one set of new hard tyres at his disposal, with two new medium tyres to use for the race, should he need to use them.

Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz are the only drivers in the top ten to have any tyre differences.