It is more fun driving on slicks - Kubica

Slick tyres are celebrating their Formula One comeback during the current 2009 season. However, BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld's interim results are not entirely positive after eight races.

As in 2008, Bridgestone is taking two types of dry tyres to each race track. However, whereas last year the tyre compounds provided - super soft, soft, medium and hard - were always directly adjacent with regard to hardness, the prime and option tyres differ greatly from each other in 2009.

"The most difficult thing about slicks is the fact that there is a big difference this year between the prime and option tyres that Bridgestone is supplying us with," Robert Kubica confirms. "Sometimes a compound works really badly, but the rules specify that we must use it in the race. We try to run a very short stint with this type of tyre. Generally speaking, it is more fun driving on slicks. The front tyres in particular seem to provide more grip and move less, which allows the car to react more directly."

Nick Heidfeld is just as unenthusiastic about the great differences between the tyre options as his team-mate. "I don't like the idea of taking inappropriate tyres and very different compounds, just to improve the show and thus consciously manufacture excitement," says the German. "The only good thing is that this situation is just as bad for everyone."