Fully coloured tyre walls?

[D'Leh]

I'll never understand why they tried so many versions even under Bridgestone. The colored sidewall in ChampCar/IndyCar is very simple and very easy to understand and see for everyone. Instead they tried all kinds of stupid, hard to see stuff like the white groove and so on. Why?!

The American solution really is awesome. They even used the colored sidewalls to indicate the cars that are still in the contention for the championship at late stages of the season. And it worked. It's not shameful to learn from the Americans how to present something to the spectators/TV viewers. That's one thing the Americans do handle smartly.

[i70q7m7ghw]

Spot the difference. Pirelli's stripe is too thin, they need a thicker stripe. Problem solved.

[Richard]

Agreed, a thicker stripe. Also only put the stripe on the softer tyre used at the event and the intermediate rain tyre. Then it is a simple case of stripe or no stripe, as opposed to having to figure out the colour coding.

[FrukostScones]

Agreed, a thicker stripe. Also only put the stripe on the softer tyre used at the event and the intermediate rain tyre. Then it is a simple case of stripe or no stripe, as opposed to having to figure out the colour coding.

So they have to produce soft tyres with and without stripe??? Like Bridgestone did with a green magic-marker (because the soft were mostly the option, but sometimes the prime, like in 2009)

I dont think that the colourchart is too difficult, If I remember correctly:
yellow-soft, red-supersoft, silver-hard, white-medium, orange-intermediate, blue-wet.... damn, orange-wet, blue-intermediate.

But the commentators will tell us this(meaning of the colours) anyway, what they cant tell us is, on what tyres the drivers are when they also can't tell them apart correctly.

[Fil]

Agreed, a thicker stripe. Also only put the stripe on the softer tyre used at the event and the intermediate rain tyre. Then it is a simple case of stripe or no stripe, as opposed to having to figure out the colour coding.

So they have to produce soft tyres with and without stripe???

They're not produced with the stripes anyway. They are painted on at the actual event. That's why the options had a silver stripe, and not yellow as it should have been - Pirelli's yellow marker pens got delayed getting shipped over to China.


So yes, just stripe the race's Options, and leave it at that. Easy.

[FrukostScones]

Agreed, a thicker stripe. Also only put the stripe on the softer tyre used at the event and the intermediate rain tyre. Then it is a simple case of stripe or no stripe, as opposed to having to figure out the colour coding.

So they have to produce soft tyres with and without stripe???

They're not produced with the stripes anyway. They are painted on at the actual event. That's why the options had a silver stripe, and not yellow as it should have been - Pirelli's yellow marker pens got delayed getting shipped over to China.


So yes, just stripe the race's Options, and leave it at that. Easy.

I know (as yellow markers why sold out in China they used a white/silver marker to paint them, funny wasn't it? )!
But as people are requesting wider stripes I dont think it is practical to paint them on manually at the Grand Prix week-end.
Also this would ridicule Pirelli original colour strategy (if you just paint a stripe on the softer tyre/option to make people notice it).
And you don't want to look amateurish in the most professional motor sports environment on planet earth.


Let see what they bring.

[Jersey Tom]

Had plenty of good races in the past with no need to add extra paint, glitter, or whatever else on primes and options.

[i70q7m7ghw]

I believe they intended to only ever stripe the options, I'd be happy to acknowledge a source that says otherwise... they have never stripped both compounds? and never will.

The colours are just to add a bit of extra insight.

[Pandamasque]

Again if you make the options more oval shaped, then we'd easily see that the more blurry cars run on options.

[Tufty]

Again if you make the options more oval shaped, then we'd easily see that the more blurry cars run on options.

Interesting idea... can't see it being too popular in the Paddock though

[FrukostScones]

Does this look hideous?

[Pandamasque]

That looks fine and is a very sensible idea. White or pirelli-yellow would be better though.

[raymondu999]

To me the indycar (is that indycar? 2 posts up?) thing is basically like what they had in Shanghai for Pirelli; just a thicker line. But I thought Pirelli were looking at bringing an entirely colored sidewall? (which I might add would look butt ugly) I could be wrong on that.

[Steven]

Topic split from actualy tyre markings that Pirelli will use.
To discuss those, please check viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9977

[i70q7m7ghw]

Split seems kind of silly? Should the topic not just have been renamed to simple "pirelli tyre markings" ?

Now if I want to quote the first half of the discussion I have to come back to this thread :S