Tuning forkroon wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 09:20I think numbering would be easier. Dots or bars on the tires indicating compound. One dot: hard. Five dot: soft. Etc.
Or just call them by a performance metric (surface hardness, friction value, etc.) and drop any use of scales or symbols. A "56 tire", a "214", what have you.
What's after sprint? Burst? Jerk? Fidget?
I'd have to agree. Every team hasn't been fond of the Ultra's, I think on more than one occasion some teams were slower on them than the Supers.godlameroso wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 14:50Last year's ultra soft actually had good life, this year it's possibly the worst tire in the range.
What? Tyres that won't last the whole race distance? Imagine having to stop twice in the race and being rewarded if you build a car that is gentle to its tyres and showing your skill as a driver managing the tyres properly. Surely that's terrible. We want hypersofts which can do 70 laps with the ability to attack the driver in front which obviously never results in an overtake anyways.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑02 Jul 2018, 11:24https://www.racefans.net/2018/07/02/pir ... -hamilton/
Pressure on Pirelli from Mercedes to bring special tyres on more races is being applied already. As expected.
This is some next level hypocrisy from Hamilton, it has to be said. Let's not forget top 3 cars were doing PBs lap after lap all the way until the end, with kimi scoring FL on the final lap. Not only top 3 cars even, pretty much everyone other than Hamilton and Ric were on same old soft tires, racing each other with no problems (alonso, lecrec...).Vanja #66 wrote: ↑02 Jul 2018, 11:24https://www.racefans.net/2018/07/02/pir ... -hamilton/
Pressure on Pirelli from Mercedes to bring special tyres on more races is being applied already. As expected.
Yeah, I'd go this route. If a choice of tyres is required, I'd say to Pirelli: "make a hard, a medium and a soft and use those the whole season". The drivers get 5 sets of each for the weekend or perhaps 2 sets of 7 of which ever two compounds they choose. That's it. So the teams might say "Silverstone needs harder tyres so we'll take 7 each of meduim and hard please" and that's it. Sure, there is possibly less chance of tyre strategy variation but we get little of that now anyway.
I guess if you run the tyre on track to make the tread thinner, the tyre will heat up in the process and may lose the characteristics of a 'new' tyre. So it will be different to a tyre that is originally of a thinner tread.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑02 Jul 2018, 16:35If the tyre tread gauge causes a problem for some teams, what's to stop those teams "skimming" the tyres themselves? Is that against the rules? Also, why can't they just run a tyre in FP to take a bit of rubber off it and then race it as a thinner gauge tyre? Is this too simple an idea? I guess I'm missing something.
a heat/cool cycles can do strange things to the tire, sometime good sometimes badJust_a_fan wrote: ↑02 Jul 2018, 16:35If the tyre tread gauge causes a problem for some teams, what's to stop those teams "skimming" the tyres themselves? Is that against the rules? Also, why can't they just run a tyre in FP to take a bit of rubber off it and then race it as a thinner gauge tyre? Is this too simple an idea? I guess I'm missing something.
I'm Ok with choosing tires, but having to do it 8 or 14 weeks in advanced is utterly retarded. Imo, Pirelli should bring enough tires no matter what the teams choose, and the teams have to pick what they want by mid day Thursday.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑02 Jul 2018, 16:41Yeah, I'd go this route. If a choice of tyres is required, I'd say to Pirelli: "make a hard, a medium and a soft and use those the whole season". The drivers get 5 sets of each for the weekend or perhaps 2 sets of 7 of which ever two compounds they choose. That's it. So the teams might say "Silverstone needs harder tyres so we'll take 7 each of meduim and hard please" and that's it. Sure, there is possibly less chance of tyre strategy variation but we get little of that now anyway.
vs. the crazy amount of production and transport capacity Pirelli would have to have to supply all teams with what ever number of tires from seven different compounds at a days noticedans79 wrote: ↑02 Jul 2018, 16:59I'm Ok with choosing tires, but having to do it 8 or 14 weeks in advanced is utterly retarded. Imo, Pirelli should bring enough tires no matter what the teams choose, and the teams have to pick what they want by mid day Thursday.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑02 Jul 2018, 16:41Yeah, I'd go this route. If a choice of tyres is required, I'd say to Pirelli: "make a hard, a medium and a soft and use those the whole season". The drivers get 5 sets of each for the weekend or perhaps 2 sets of 7 of which ever two compounds they choose. That's it. So the teams might say "Silverstone needs harder tyres so we'll take 7 each of meduim and hard please" and that's it. Sure, there is possibly less chance of tyre strategy variation but we get little of that now anyway.
I've wondered several times since the choosing rules went into effect how much money teams are wasting trying to predict what the weather will be that far in advance.
