Pirelli says that the conservative selection in tyre compounds for this year's Spanish Grand Prix will allow the drivers to push hard from the start to the end of the race.

The Italian marque will bring the C1, C2 and C3 compounds to the weekend, the hardest in its range.

The aforementioned compounds were seen at the Bahrain Gand Prix earlier this year, and are not set to be selected again until Silverstone - Pirelli still has to confirm the compounds for the British Grand Prix.

Ahead of this weekend's event in Barcelona, Pirelli says the hard tyres have been selected "to enable drivers to push hard from the start to the finish of each stint in what are likely to be warm conditions, without resorting to pace management."

Pirelli added that at pre-season testing earlier this year at Barcelona, teams "tended to concentrate on the softer compounds", which means "they may be missing a bit of data on the hard and the medium" tyres.

Pirelli's head of racing Mario Isola says that despite the compounds it will bring, he expects the track record to fall once more due to the evolution of the track surface, which was renewed last year.

“There are very few mysteries about Barcelona for the teams, especially this year as the pre-season tests were held in quite good weather conditions that should be more representative of the season," Isola said.

"However, a number of teams are planning on bringing some car upgrades, so it will be interesting to see the effect of those on tyre behaviour, together with the continued evolution of the new track surface, which we already noted earlier this year.

"Even in pre-season testing, the cars were incredibly quick out of the box here, so this could be yet another race like last year in Spain where more lap records fall.”