Quote Originally Posted by Bagwan View Post
In environmental terms , though , which is a focus for F1 , it seems to make for a smaller and more predictable number of tires needing to be available for the cars over the course of the season .
A lot of tires go unused , and they are transported to venues all over the world , to go unused .
Choosing compounds in advance helped a lot with this , and this may be another attempt at the same problem .
You could always make them use a single spec, single set of tyres for the season (say Michelin X - they were pretty long lasting) and give grid penalties for using a new tyre. That would be good for the environment & give pretty close racing, but it wouldn't be what F1 is about.

I don't like any of these artificial constructs to make the racing closer. Traditionally if one team spotted a loop-hole, got the design and set-up spot on and made the others look daft then good for them (until the rules were changed to knobble them - remember the Brabham fan car).

Why do we need all of these qualifying races, reverse grid suggestions and other complications to confuse what should really be simple - these guys got it right, the others didn't.