Comments on: Red tyre revolution

By: James

James — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:20:28 +0000

Ending the tyre war in the first place was a bloody silly decision. F1 has always used such competition between rival teams/manufacturers to push back technical boundaries on and off the track. It makes the racing more exciting and it benefits all of us because what is learned during development filters down to ‘everyday’ road products, etc.

F1 has been doing way too much of this over the last few years. And yes, I bet Ferrari had some hand in it, they’re always playing political games instead of going out and winning fair and square.

By: Clive

Clive — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:35:40 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out how Ferrari is going to benefit from such a half-baked idea. I mean, there HAS to be something – that’s the only reason the FIA make stupid rule changes like this…

By: Don Speekingleesh

Don Speekingleesh — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:48:09 +0000

As far as I know, yeah. The teams may have objected too, but it’s Bridgestone who raised the main objection.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:45:42 +0000

So the Autosport story is inaccurate? They claimed, “A plan to adopt a red-painted sidewall for the soft tyres to allow easy differentiation of which compound the drivers were using fell through because teams did not want their strategies to be made public.” (See link above)

By: Don Speekingleesh

Don Speekingleesh — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:42:48 +0000

It’s not the teams that refusing to have the red sidewalls – it’s Bridgestone. In Champcar there is one hard and one soft tire in use all year, but for F1 there will be about 4 types of tire – from which B’stone will select two for the teams to use at each race. So what’s the soft tire some weekends could be the hard tire other weekends. I think when Bridgestone realised it could cost them money and that they’d be stuck with extra tires they pushed the blame onto the teams.

The only people to blame here are Bridgestone and the FIA.

By: Jmagay

Jmagay — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:05:01 +0000

Another step toward “Crashca..” er, Nascar idiocy. Speaking of which – the formerly rather pure looking car shapes are being covered so heavily with sponsor colors and decals, (Note Renault for 2007) the cars look like prototypes covered with camo for testing. Ugh!

By: Rob Ijbema

Rob Ijbema — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:19:56 +0000

yes rubbish,colored tyre walls,refuling,we don’t need these artificial “improvements”i like to see overtaking on the track,not in the pits!

By: Cooperman

Cooperman — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:38:30 +0000

This rule is shocking in its entirety – it’s fine for Champ Cars where it’s generally acknowledged that their audience seek entertainment and artificial racing – but this is F1. The pinnacle. The top. The best.

This tyre rule is absolute rubbish. Max *should* be ashamed of himself but he’ll probably blame Ron Dennis, or Coulthard, or the GP Manufacturers when itâ€™s obvious itâ€™s wrong and theyâ€™ll be yet another change to F1â€™s rulebook. Do true F1 fans want to see this sort of thing? I consider myself a fan and this isnâ€™t what I put in the FIAâ€™s survey last year.