Thread: Tech Issue Pirelli-The Tyre Story..
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Old 19 Mar 2013, 02:45 (Ref:3220963)   #77
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You could send them all out on hard tyres and watch Kimi's 'ever so light on its tyres, whilst also being very fast on them' Lotus win every race.

And exactly how hard do these 'other' tyres need to be? Do they need to degrade a little bit? Do they need to degrade not as much as the Pirelli's? Or do they need to be so resistant to wear that they can, and must last, for more than one race?

Whichever one you chose it would still be a choice for a tyre that favoured some cars and not others.
Trouble is also that it causes the old "marbles" scenario and one racing line ... AGP saw more marbles than I had seen in years
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