Pirelli

Relax , you kids .
We'll only have two compounds , and announcers who will be well versed in which are which .

The only question is why use silver .

I don't suppose they wanted equal time for the top team colours , did they ?
Supersoft - red for Ferrari
Soft – yellow for Renault
Medium – white for Sauber
Hard – silver for the Macs and Mercs

It seems like a bit too much coincidence , doesn't it ?

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

Relax , you kids .
We'll only have two compounds , and announcers who will be well versed in which are which .

The only question is why use silver .

I don't suppose they wanted equal time for the top team colours , did they ?
Supersoft - red for Ferrari
Soft – yellow for Renault
Medium – white for Sauber
Hard – silver for the Macs and Mercs

It seems like a bit too much coincidence , doesn't it ?

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What about RedBull then?

White and silver? I don't think it's going to be easy telling the difference between the two at speed.

too many colors, since at every gp there will only be 4 tire types possible used, they should have done it this way.

harder of the compound of the weekend = white (to be different from the colors below)
softer = green - symbolizing going faster (for 3 laps lol...)! :)
wet = red - symbolizing danger / high caution / very slow
intermediate = yellow - symbolizing slight caution / slow

I think white is good for the hard compound since that is the tire the teams will be on most of the time and its fair to all the different liveries, the tire lettering being white... possibly use blue for the harder compound if white and yellow too similar...

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Originally Posted by Dave B

But but but.... white and silver won't be used on the same weekend as there's always one compound in between the two that get chosen.

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Yes, but can't teams choose which ones they use so one team might go for Ssoft and medium while another go for Soft and Hard?

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Originally Posted by ioan

What about RedBull then?

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They have yellow and red , and one of the wet colours , blue .

Or , maybe Pirelli doesn't like them and they should consider themselves dissed .

I know . It was just a question , but why the heck use silver , if it isn't some kind of compensation for the teams that won't have what look like bespoke tires to the general public ?
I should think those red ones will look really good on the red cars , and the yellow on the yellow , etc .

Why not green replacing silver ?
Or , did Pirelli diss Bridgestone over the green sidewall at some point , making it a contradiction to use it ?

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Originally Posted by skc

Yes, but can't teams choose which ones they use so one team might go for Ssoft and medium while another go for Soft and Hard?

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I believe the compounds to be used are chosen by the FIA and Pirelli .

The old days , when they brought about a bazillion tires to each race are gone .

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Originally Posted by skc

Yes, but can't teams choose which ones they use so one team might go for Ssoft and medium while another go for Soft and Hard?

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In a word: no.

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Originally Posted by Dave B

In a word: no.

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That's four words , Dave .

silver and grey won't be a problem afaik as they'll bring 2 compunds to each race and they'll be one compound between them, so you'll never see grey and silver at the same time. you'll always have one coloured and one grey or silver

is their something else we can complain about, the tyres last too long, the new tyres are too soft and degrade (like they were asked to provide), the colours are wrong.

i really cannot see what everyone is so excited about, it appears that the tyres will add something extra to the races, something taht the Bridgestones didn't do in anything but extreme circumstances