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The problem with the Pirellis (22 posts)

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Icthyes said 2 years, 2 months ago:

I think narrowing the performance differential would be the worst way to go and I don;’t see it solving anything. There would always be a “correct” tyre and people will go for that 9 times out of 10. If you make tyres that are “6 of one and half a dozen of the other” you’d see more variety, maybe not at the start but definitely after the first stop.

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Chippie said 2 years, 2 months ago:

There seems to be such a vast amount of opposition to the quali-tyre rule, including myself. Can’t we petition the FIA about this? I mean, think about it, if we got even a few hundred signatures backed by the reasoned arguments Keith gave on this site we could force the FIA to take a look at it. No-one seems to like the rule; it’s artificial, it’s arbitrary and it makes the races much less exiting. Could we launch a petition?

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Adrian J said 2 years, 2 months ago:

I think I’ve found a photo that shows what the teams mean when they say that the Pirelli tyres reach a point where the “fall off a cliff”…

http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee436/Adrian_Jordan/petrovcliff.jpg

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Icthyes said 2 years, 2 months ago:

That’s an epic photoshop! F1 meets Quadrophenia, never thought I’d see it.

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Stephen Jones said 2 years, 2 months ago:

haha, photo of the day!

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Prisoner Monkeys said 2 years, 2 months ago:

Perhaps a slight re-wording of the rule is in order. Instead of forcing drivers to race on the tyres they set their best lap on, it could be re-written so that all drivers (not just the top ten) have to use the same compound tyres they qualified on. So if they qualify on a set of softs and cut them to ribbons, they can put on a new set of soft tyres. I think it would open up some strategies with teams aiming to qualify 11th or 12th on a set of hards to let them run a different strategy in the race if they know they can’t make Q3.

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Icthyes said 2 years, 2 months ago:

I do like the idea of mandating 3 stops but making the tyres as good as the Bridgestones. The performance differential between old and new tyres wouldn’t be as great, so people would only stop to undercut someone that they can’t get by in front. or we could see strategies where someone makes 3 stops within the first 2/3 of the race and then limp to the end, or the other way around. It’s the best compromise I’ve heard between having multiple stops and not having to nurse the tyres all the time. I thought nursing your tyres would be gone this year but it appears it’s still with us.

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