Next year, there will be just three P Zero colours at each race. These will always be the same - white, yellow and red - denoting the hard, medium and soft tyre choices respectively at every Grand Prix. But that doesn't mean that there will be only three tyre compounds.

Instead, the hard, medium and soft tyre compounds will continue to vary to suit the different characteristics of each track. For instance, a Red soft tyre for Monaco will differ substantially from a Red soft tyre for Silverstone or Suzuka. The precise number of tyre compounds available, covering a wide spectrum from soft to hard, will be communicated in December after homologation from the FIA.

Before every race next year, Pirelli will reveal which exact tyre compounds form the hard, medium and soft choices for the weekend. This new system makes it easy for the casual fan to tell the difference between the tyres, yet still allows people who want more detail to know which of the specific tyre compounds available are being used.

The colours for the Cinturato intermediate tyre and full wet tyres remain unchanged next year - green and blue respectively.