Quote Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira View Post
Stupid rule. Open the competition to all tyres.
Quote Originally Posted by RS View Post
It would be better for the tyre manufacturers too. Pirelli could brag about beating their competitors instead of just being famous for puncturing.
But would it be better for the sport? How many teams would get a tyre sponsorship deal? How many tyre manufacturers would want to get into a development war. If "brand X" tyres had an exclusive deal with one team and their tyres were much better than the rest, where would that leave the other teams? How much would the teams without a deal have to pay for tyres compared with now?
Opening up to all tyres might only work if you make all tyres available to all teams and ban any links between tyre manufacturers and teams. Would the teams be intersted in this? Without knowing details of the current tyre supply deal, we can't say.