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What about the aero aspect? If the tires are very hard to activate it will be 100% about maximum down force again – only this time the best aero designer will have a double advantage.

That’s simply not true. It’s against the regulations and it’s certainly extremely immoral to change the tires in the middle of the season.

But how do you explain that Ferrari and Lotus officially protest against the changes? To say they have previously agreed to the same changes doesn’t make any sense. It makes no sense they would both do the […]

Max, I normally agree quite welk with you, but this time I think you are way off.

As many have pointed out there is no serious issue with the current tires compared to last year. I personally don’t support the […]

I think Red Bull and Mercedes are the instigators but I certainly believe that Ecclestone is responsible.

I very strongly doubt that Lotus and Ferrari have agreed to these changes and it is very interesting […]

So why did Paul Hembery specifically state that the alteration was NOT due to safety issues since the delamination occurred solely at the surface and not in the structure of the tire?

Something just smells REALLY bad here!

Like timi and others have pointed out the timing just seems terrible. I understand that McLaren are looking to move away from Mercedes for political reasons and it’s outstanding that they have revoked Honda who […]

Lol, I was just thinking that but then again; what the hey :-)

It’s gonna be Kevin Magnussen!

@Lajo There is no point in the race at which you have the same combination fuel load and tire freshness as in qualifying so the point is not really valid.

I don’t agree with tire nurturing but I also disagree […]

As you can see in qualifying Merc has A LOT of downforce. The more durable the tires, the better they can utilize it.

Well said!

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I don’t like either tire but point is that these are championship deciding changes that are introduced mid-season. How does that not ruin the sport?

It is exactly the same as saying: “Let’s favor these teams […]

But John, WHY can’t we have four stops? If the Barcelona had four most other GP’s will only have three while the few teams who designed properly for the tires will only have two. How is that even a problem?

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How can you possibly argue that comedy tires should be the tool to contain lower aero levels? What happened to proper aero regulations COMBINED with proper tires?

I think these tires are absolutely silly but […]

Just because I prefer real race tires doesn’t mean I want to see major changes mid-season. It’s insane amounts of work and money the teams have put into balancing the cars with these tires without compromising […]

I think the paragraph should have read:

“The changes are being made to guard against a repeat of Sunday’s race in Spain, where Bernie’s pet-boy was defenseless against those teams who actually designed their […]

I have always disliked DRS with a passion and I just do not understand why something artificial like that was introduced to patch the aero problem instead of actually fixing it. Compared to the whole deployment […]