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21st December 2008, 16:53 #1
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Qualifying tyres?
Can anyone please tell me in what exact seasons were qualifying tyres allowed?
I know it was sometime during the first half of the 80's, but dunno when exactly.
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21st December 2008, 22:03 #2
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It's not a simple question. Effectively qualifying tyres were allowed from the start of motor racing; but they were most certainly not used until the seventies or so. It would be easier to look for when qualifying tyres were not allowed.
There were various agreements where the tyre companies agreed not to supply them and if there was a single tyre supplier situation, whether by regulation or by circumstance then the supplier refused to supply them. But that doesn't mean they weren't allowed.
The only really effective and totally enforceable ban was when it became mandatory to start the race on the tyres you qualified on.Duncan Rollo
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21st December 2008, 23:59 #3
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Originally Posted by D-TypeThe Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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22nd December 2008, 00:49 #4
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They were quite astonishing - good for only 1 single hot lap.
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Originally Posted by D-Type
The fact that cars usually did four qualifying runs each on new tyres, as well as practice laps usually meant that at some point during the race cars would have to race on tyres they had qualified with.Please 'like' our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/motorsportforums
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22nd December 2008, 20:49 #6
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As I said: "It's not a simple question"
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22nd December 2008, 22:45 #7
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But wasn' it sometime during the mid (or at least late) 80's that qualifying tyres got specifically banned?
And I mean the "real qualifiers", that only lasted a lap or two, the ones you could never race on?Drive as if your life depends on it...because it does!
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22nd December 2008, 23:06 #8
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Nigel Mansell who put his Williams on pole, found the conditions to be dry and dull. Goodyear who had become the sole tyre supplier for 1992, did not provide the three lap "gumball" qualifying tyres that they had in previous years and were keen to force the FIA's hand to have them banned permanently.
Formula One Yearbook, 1992/3 - with regards the opening Sth African GP.The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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22nd December 2008, 23:16 #9
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So that would mean 1991 was the last season of those?
If my memory still serves me right, it was the year of Pirelli "super-sticky" ones?Drive as if your life depends on it...because it does!
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28th December 2008, 15:38 #10
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