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Old 6 Oct 2013, 14:26 (Ref:3313546)   #1310
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Originally Posted by Marbot View Post
Perhaps. But it's only in the last three seasons of F1 that a tyre supplier was specifically asked to make tyres that degrade so as to improve the 'show'. The overwhelming consensus at the end of the 2010 season was that F1 would be cured of all its ills if the tyres would allow for more than just one pit stop.
I know Pirelli were asked to make a degradable tyre; just another aspect of the artificiality that's crept into F1, in order to spice it up, something IndyCar hasn't had to, despite the spec nature of the series and they've produced some of the best racing I've seen for a while.
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