Pirelli Strategy 2011

[Just_a_fan]

Well the point would be that you could change tyres if you wished. Now, some drivers would try to just keep going and some would work on the "splash and dash" principle towards the end of the race.

In effect you'd have an alternative strategy available unlike the current situation where you have to change tyres (i.e. it's a single strategy) and all you're doing is picking when. Perhaps the new Pirellis will give more stops which gives more chances to roll the dice but it's still just variations of one strategy.

I'd like two compounds and the driver can use one or both as they see fit. So a quick but "hard" driver might go long on the hard compound and then "splash and dash" the last 10 laps on the softs having trashed the hards. A "soft" driver might try to go the whole race on one set of harder tyres and hope that he can be consistently quick enough to prevent the "hard" driver making the required 25-30s required for his strategy.

The current "must use two compounds" rule is just there to economically justify the tyre company taking two compounds to the races. There is no racing need to have the rule.

[volarchico]

Makes sense...you've made me a believer! Now if we can just convince FIA.

[ringo]

I think passing in the pits will be the main strategy this year. It's going to be worse than 2009.
Why overtake and spoil your tyres when you can pass in the pits and get a 3s head start if you go on new tyres?

Overtaking is useless if you car is 1 second faster or so than the other car before the overtake. Then after the overtake and the tyres lose their edge, you car is suddenly 2 seconds slower then the other guy overtakes you right before he goes in the pits, so you don't get the chance to even think about fighting back.

[MrBlacky]

http://www.pirelli.com/tyre/ww/en/news/ ... australia/

Wet – orange
Intermediate – light blue
Supersoft – red
Soft – yellow
Medium – white
Hard – silver

[Just_a_fan]

I think you're right ringo. Multiple tyre stops because of short-life tyres is just the 2011 equivalent of refuelling. It's in there to "improve the show" but whether it will is yet to be seen.

I still think the teams should be able to "roll the dice" more in strategy. The default situation should be that a car can go the whole race on one set of tyres and a full tank of fuel. They should also be able to choose to run less fuel and softer tyres if they wish and then hope to be quick enough to cover the pitstop times.

Imagine if they could be free on strategy and also weren't required to say what they were doing beforehand? Then we wouldn't know if driver A was "just slow" or "running long" where driver B looks fast but is "doing multiple stops" etc.

[Sawtooth-spike]

http://www.pirelli.com/tyre/ww/en/news/ ... australia/

Wet – orange
Intermediate – light blue
Supersoft – red
Soft – yellow
Medium – white
Hard – silver

I am pretty sure that Yellow, White and Silver will all look the same when they are spinning around. I could be wrong.

Give the range of coulors in this would why not use some high contrast colors like Green and Pink (ok the pink would look crap). Wets and inters are fairly easy to spot becasue of there tread. So why give them the only contrasting colours?

[MrBlacky]

http://www.pirelli.com/tyre/ww/en/news/ ... australia/

Wet – orange
Intermediate – light blue
Supersoft – red
Soft – yellow
Medium – white
Hard – silver

I am pretty sure that Yellow, White and Silver will all look the same when they are spinning around. I could be wrong.

Yeah, I thought the same.

[Lurk]

Obviously yellow and white will be a problem only for french tv commentators.

Silver and white could look the same but Pirelli are not supposed to bring hard and medium compound in the same GP.

[ringo]

what is the diameter of the pirelli tyre?
regs say 660mm max, but they look way less than that.

[raymondu999]

I was watching GP2 when I realized that GP2 still allows tyre changes only on one axle. Isn't GP2 using Pirellis so that the future of F1 would have Pirelli management (how to heat up/nurse the tyres etc) experience? Surely that would necessitate identical regs? F1 should reallow wearing different compounds and separate axle tyre stops too IMO.