If you are like me, Pirelli's recent announcement regarding their many-coloured sidewalls for the 2011 Formula 1 season may have left you a bit flustered. Although the company has provided a unique solution to the ever-present problem of distinguishing between tyre compounds, it does seem like an awful lot of information to take in and try and memorise.

Sidepodcast therefore presents to you, the confused punter, the ultimate in F1 teaching aids, and the difficult follow up single to the 2009 hit Felipe Baby. This is a song for Pirelli.

Hopefully, by the time the cars hit the track in Melbourne at the end of this week, we'll be able to tell one compound from another. You'll only need to remember two at a time, of course, plus the wet ones in case of inclement weather, but it's worth memorising them all so that for the rest of the season it just comes naturally to you.

Lyrics

Red are supersoft, yellows are soft

Silver hard, white mediums, inters blue

And also there are orange ones

They're used when it's wet

Now you'll never forget

Listen with your eyes

Colours to memorise

Bridgestone's green stripe is gone for good

They'll look bright on telly

On HD telly

Nice work Pirelli

Red and yellow and silver and white

Orange and blue compounds too

I can sing a sidewall

Pirelli sidewall

Sing a sidewall with you