Pirelli director of motorsport Paul Hembery has revealed that the manufacturer will make tweaks to its hard compound tyre ready for the Spanish Grand Prix and the European season.

Hembery said that the decision was made after talking with all 11 teams, but Red Bull were reportedly keen for more drastic changes to the tyre.

"We took the decision...to change the hard compound from Spain onwards, as we did in Barcelona two years ago when we also introduced a new hard tyre for the rest of the season," Autosport quotes Hembery as saying.

"This latest version of the hard compound is much closer to the 2012 tyre, with the aim of giving the teams more opportunity to run a wider range of strategies in combination with the other compounds, which remain unchanged."

The Spanish Grand Prix weekend starts on May 10.