214270 wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 08:11
Hoffman900 wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 07:45
mendis wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 07:42
Have they not failed to produce the committed quality in 2019/20, that lead to regulation change cutting downforce for 2021? Even then, Pirelli kept bloating the tyres with higher and higher tyre pressures? Sorry, they have not produced the required quality ever. Even this year, the fronts are not sturdy enough that is causing understeer.
There isn’t a manufacturer that wants to touch this ten foot pole. Pirelli is mandated to develop tires that work while also produce a show, meanwhile the FIA does their own thing and continues to make the cars heavier and heavier. The tires can’t be all things.
Why would that mandate apply to wet weather tyres though? Are they really that dumb that they’ve instructed ‘show’ tyres for wet compounds too? I just don’t think Pirelli have the expertise.
If you think this is a --- show, go take a look at Dunlop’s issues in Australia right now, or Goodyear’s problems in NASCAR.
The issue with the rain tires is two fold:
1) open wheels
2) the aero concept of the new cars.
The better a rain tire works, the more water it evacuates. The larger the surface area on the ground, the more water that needs to be evacuated. The more water evacuated, the more water in the air (and no fenders to keep it under the car or direct out the side) and the more water in the air + an aero concept that forces air up (to reduce dirty air at car level from a trailing car) means more water in the air, which equals worst visibility.
The best rain tire from a visibility standpoint is a slick. The better the rain tire = the worse the visibility, especially in an open wheel car.