Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
Hello Journeyman, as usual, l don't agree with you on this one. Nobody asked Pirelli to make junk tryes, they are just junk. The general expectation was for the tyres to be consistently good for a prescribed number of laps before degradation and consequential failure. The general complaints are that they are not even reaching their specified maximum limits before they fail.

I think what it means now is that the tyres are good for 90% of the prescribed maximum number of laps specified by Pirelli. If Pirelli say 40laps is the maximum for a particular tyre, that would translate to realistically 36 laps max before the tyres becomes unpredictable.

When you compare the Pirelli tyres to the Bridgestone tyres of old, the Pirelli tyres are comparatively quite below optimum.
So , if they had predicted a longevity of 36 laps , would you be happy ?

So , on the new tarmac at the track making it harder to predict , and with the recently discovered "cutting curbing" to add to the points I cited in my earlier post , could it be considered hard to predict ?

I would imagine the teams looking at the tires and making judgments , much like yourself , about the real characteristics of the tires .

And , I'm sure Pirelli learned more as well .

By the way , they weren't asked for "junk" tires , as you guys put it .
They were given specific mandates to produce exactly what we have .