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It is what is it. The Pirelli tyres provide the two or three stop strategies that they were mandated to. They were accused of being too conservative with their tyres over the last few races of last season and so they have addressed that problem. There would still be teams unhappy with the Pirelli tyres if they only took one tyre spec to the races that had a very wide operating window and lasted for the entire weekend.
You will have noticed that no one is backing Red Bull's claims that the tyres need to be doing anything other than what they are doing, because if Pirelli had shown up with the 2012 spec tyres for the 2013 season, then it's very likely we would be looking at another season that had Red Bull written all over it. Pirelli have already played into Red Bull's hands by taking the medium tyre to the Bahrain GP instead of the soft tyre. It won't be too long before people say that the tyres are too conservative again. |
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So basically it does not matter how bad the tyres are, teams think it is OK to suffer punctures and delamination as long as RBR struggles with degradation more than the others ?
They can't build a better car so even if they don't like this year's tyres they will support them because it's the easiest way to compete for the championship. Nobody is happy with these pirellis in my opinion... I think it's just a matter of "hey look, RBR is struggling more than us, please let's keep these shi*** tyres, please, please." |
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Supplying duff tyres just to hold back a team doing a great job.
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which of course very different to saying Pirelli are doing a good job.
its all well and good to say the teams told them to do this but i find it hard to rationalize the fact that teams spend a few hundred million and then ask for an unknown variable to become the primary performance differentiator. certainly FOM want this because its more 'exciting' but i suspect the teams would prefer all outside parts to be far more predictable. perhaps its more entertaining but is it sporting? thats the question for me and further complicated because explaining what i think is sporting is equally as subjective as describing what i find entertaining. |
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No way should they change them now or people are going to call Red Bull conspiracy, whether there is one or not. It's good to see RBR's aero advantage slightly negated (aero sucks) and people will get suspicious, what with Ecclestone and Horner getting on so well and Ecclestone and Vettel getting on so well..
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Unless the cars are filled up with enough fuel to be guaranteed not to run out and on tires designed to go the distance (actually past full race distance) drivers cannont push 100% of the time
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In running, the man is the 'car', through training, physical condition and sometimes even traits and genetic characteristics from birth. The shoe is like it's 'tire' as it is crucial to keeping each thing on the track/road. Tire management has always been a part of motorsport as you mention, however it is rarely the key characteristic and main focus of the sport. I have no issue with tire wear, but when it becomes like China where you cannot RACE because of it, it is not a sport but a joke. And when it comes to safety being compromised with Massa's tire issues, laugh all you want, but the FIA's rules to produce more 'excitement' have led to a type of racing that after warning, claimed human lives and caused injuries in the past. Particularly one season that I'm sure everybody wants to forget. |
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Yep, both tires were cut by debris. Paul Hembery told me that Chilton's delamination at Malaysia was caused by falling space debris, seems to make sense as anything he says is automatically true.
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BTW - RBR isn't the only unhappy team: http://en.espnf1.com/williams/motors...ry/106572.html Nor the only ones complaining about all of the emphasis on tyres: Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche's head of research and development on Proche's decision to not enter F1: "We are a sportscar company," Hatz said at the Shanghai motor show. "Porsche has always lived for the transfer of racing to production cars. For that reason it was clear two or three years ago that we had to be back in high-level motorsport, and it was a choice between top-flight sportscars or Formula One. "But the final decision was the only logical one. F1 was an alternative, but the road relevance is not there. Also, there is a lot of publicity around politics and tyres, but not so much about the engines and chassis. |
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