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Everyone is moaning that the tyres are artificial and produce this strange racing, but they are not different ot anything else in F1. The whole of F1 is artificial, that's why the cars have dramatically fewer aerodynamic devices compared to a few years back; so if the tyres need to be the best we can produce right now, to acheive the fastest laps possible, why not the cars?
But then the cars would become very reliant on downforce again and the awful "racing" of the 2000's would return. Ideally F1 would get rid of aero devices all together, create cars more like the 50's. I know this has all been said before, but I really think it's the only thing that would make us happy. Give the cars some decent tyres so they are still fairly quick in the corners, massive engines with slightly too much power so they are tricky to drive, and let the teams fight it out over drag reduction, power and chassis developments.
As for the racing this year, no it isn't the fastest racing out there and it isn't about pushing as hard as you can every single lap. But the teams have the same tyres and the same conditions, so it is still about which car/driver combination can finish the race in the shortest time. Sport is sometimes a tactical thing, which isn't always bad.
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