Pirelli

Decent enough performance from Pirelli today. But the conditions were hardly challenging :) Just you wait till there's some unseasonally cold or warm weather at a GP. Vettel's tyre chunking seemed like an isolated incident thankly and probably down to debris.

I still maintain that the tyre regs are all wrong as they are.

My tyre regs
Any tyre manufacturer allowed
Tyre manufacturers can bring as many different tyres as possible
No limit to the amount of tyres you can use in the race
No need to use certain compounds during the race.
No racing on the tyres you qualified on and so on
Refuelling allowed so people can 1 stop or 10 stop if they want to :)

So basically no tyre regs!

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Decent enough performance from Pirelli today. But the conditions were hardly challenging :) Just you wait till there's some unseasonally cold or warm weather at a GP. Vettel's tyre chunking seemed like an isolated incident thankly and probably down to debris.

I still maintain that the tyre regs are all wrong as they are.

My tyre regs
Any tyre manufacturer allowed
Tyre manufacturers can bring as many different tyres as possible
No limit to the amount of tyres you can use in the race
No need to use certain compounds during the race.
No racing on the tyres you qualified on and so on
Refuelling allowed so people can 1 stop or 10 stop if they want to :)

So basically no tyre regs!

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Almost agreed apart from the refueling, but it won't happen.

What would happen if Goodyear, Kumho, Dunlop, etc all came knocking wanting a piece of the action? Would the FiA ignore them?

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

Almost agreed apart from the refueling, but it won't happen.

What would happen if Goodyear, Kumho, Dunlop, etc all came knocking wanting a piece of the action? Would the FiA ignore them?

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Of course :) The FIA ignores common sense wherever possible. Why wouldn't you like refuelling? It was always interesting to see people on light fuel loads and worn tyres against people on worn tyres with lots of fuel and so on.

Was never a fan of refueling - probably from when i first watched F1 in the mid 80's and Prost would be clever and conserve his tyres whilst Senna, Piquet, Mansell at al disappeared into the distance.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Decent enough performance from Pirelli today. But the conditions were hardly challenging :) Just you wait till there's some unseasonally cold or warm weather at a GP. Vettel's tyre chunking seemed like an isolated incident thankly and probably down to debris.

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Cool start to GP weekend, green track, temporary street circuit and you're saying that's hardly a challenge? Even on Sunday after the race the track looked barely rubbered in.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

Almost agreed apart from the refueling, but it won't happen.

What would happen if Goodyear, Kumho, Dunlop, etc all came knocking wanting a piece of the action? Would the FiA ignore them?

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to avoid being ignored, they would need to be like greeks bearing gifts, for I wonder who made how much money sub rosa on this deal??

Speaking of such, they could always let Trojan do the rubber....give a whole new meaning to rubbering in and used rubber.......

I wouldn't mind seeing the alleged high speed spin that caused this damage to Petrovs tyre.. the ply is exposed, ripped apart. An uber flat spot through the ply from braking.. or the result of the spin.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/9455739.stm

Has anyone ever seen such damage done to a michelin in similar circumstances?

Major criticisms about the marbles. Not just off-line but literally becoming rubber bullets according to Paul Di Resta.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mot...r-bullets.html

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90662

I like them, nowdays it takes moore than red mist to win a race.

Bring on China.

I agree with Pirelli's stance. This is what the FIA wanted, so too bad. They're not the party to blame.

Let the circus continue because the show must go on. :rolleyes: