Quote Originally Posted by ioan
And the 'fun' continues:


Pirelli to discuss Q3 tyre-saving issue with FOTA in Korea - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com

Funny how the guy who knows bugger all about F1 thinks that he knows better then F1 teams and engineers with many years of experience.
What with the tires being crap after stints of only 9 laps in Japan?

They need to pull their fingers out of their behinds and make a real race tire, that's the solution, now that everyone sees that teams need to save tires in qualifying instead of going all out.
Of course the tyres are crap but everyone has deal with it and it gives the teams something to really think about on race weekends.

And the racing has been so much better for it. Longer do we get the last stint/last third of the race where most drivers pace to the finish

As for the tyre saving thing I have no problems with it. The main focus is on pole - as it should be. If FI or Sauber or even MGP want to work on race day then so be it but at least pole position has not be diminished in past years with qualify-with-race-fuel-load. However I can see Hembrey's position and we live in financially difficult times.

After a few seasons getting used to safe and bland Michelin tyres will be poor for F1, IMHO. I'd rather have crap tyres than DRS.