F1 Tyre rule is mad and will not save money or aid competition

[Glen]

The tactic will be to build a tyre that can just about do the race distance - it will be up to the driver to run a perfect race to get it to last that long in prime condition. I very much doubt that a tougher tyre that can take sporadic abuse would be as quick over an entire race distance, so I assume that no-one will be interested in exploring that route.

Qualifying has to be considered too - that quaity in a tyre that means that you get one really fast lap followed by good tyre wear thereafter is going to be critical. To be optimistic I'll mention that Michelin have been by far the best at this trick to date - so we could get quick Micheliin cars qualifying well and then drivin to conserve tyres whilst Bridgestone cars have the dilema of do they push to get past and risk losing tyre performance or do they cruise for a while and see what develops. I think I know what the answer to that question is - the safer route of waiting... but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, at least it is better than a Ferrari getting past and going off into the distance.