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Not sure I like the idea of these extremely fragile tyres, I'd much prefer to see the cars being able to be pushed to the max without the penalty of degradation, with perhaps enough life in the tyres for 2 sets to easily last the full race. I hope Im wrong but I have a horrible feeling everyone is going to have to drive like 'old grannies' as Lewis and Jenson put it to pace the tyres through the race.
Vettel:
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Q: It looked like a big chunk came off your tyre. Do you know what happened?
SV: I don’t think that it happened early on because I didn’t feel any change on the car, or at least not a big one. It’s true it was a big chunk and believe me I was surprised myself when I saw it. We don’t know why it happened and Pirelli is still investigating, because we need to understand as I definitely didn’t lock up the tyres or go off the track. We definitely need to find an answer.
I hope we get a nice range-some doing 2 whilst others do 3 and a select few doing 4 would surely be spectacular if tyre wear is big enough. I am really hoping someone pits with 8/10 laps to go and storms through the midfield as everyone else suffers tyre wear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
The BBC were reporting that debris (probably the Sauber engine cover that came off) caused that chunk to be missing from Vettels tyre.
Button did 30 laps on one set of hards today, and Hamilton about 25, so I think its time we put to bed the 4-stops-per-race panic.
Why? Back in the good old days it was up to the skill of the driver/team to choose the right tyres, these days there is more or less only one choice or which tyres to run at what point in the race.Quote:
Originally Posted by truefan72
Solid performance today.
Green track, cool conditions, the track even looked hardly rubbered in after the race.
What tire or tyre manufacturer would want to have his tire making ability appear to the WHOLE WORLD be as lousy as this perfomance today?
While it may have been intended and mandated to be such by Bernie or other Morons, I thought Perelli stunk up the place, esp. for just people who might happen to be a causal fan and turn on the TV.
Look at us, nobody knows when to pit, hard tires don't always work, tire get to chunking sometime, but hey, our tires were on the winning car
vettel: "a big chunk went flying off my tire....
if I were that causal fan thinking about buying some tires and saw today's perfomance, any tires made by them would not be on my list
I thought just the opposite. They put in a good performance today.
you are not a causal fan, and you know the real scoreQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark
You've got to be kidding if you think that Michelin were ever in the running. Ever since the US GP that year the FIA have been against Michelin as much as possible. They got dumped in the WRC when they were by far the better choice against Pirelli.Quote:
Originally Posted by SGWilko