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[chipmcdonald]

If I thought Pirelli were going to make tires that the drivers could push on the whole time - I would be for a mandatory single stop.   The problem with the way things are now isn't that there are two tire compounds, it's that the two are crummy/crummier, instead of great/faster for 2 laps.   At least one compound should work for the whole race, full stop - not just "last", but *work*.

 

Changing the frictional grip/down force ratio is how they should achieve passing, not "who has nursed their rubbish tires better".  "Passing" isn't the flip flopping between opposing strategies at the end of the race, either.

Edited by chipmcdonald, 08 December 2013 - 20:12.

[SenorSjon]

Drivers were pushing every stint in the refueling era, but that didn't lead to passing on track, that is why they introduced Pirelli and DRS/KERS etc. This would be correcting a mistake with another mistake.

Now you have the same, but instead of fuel load, you have tire life. It is the exact opposite (empty tank was faster car, now new tires is faster car). We did have passing on track, just many rules making it impossible for cars to be really different.

[dau]

"Formula 1 teams reject proposal to enforce two pit stops"

 

http://www.bbc.com/s...rmula1/25310485

[FredF1]

"Formula 1 teams reject proposal to enforce two pit stops"

 

http://www.bbc.com/s...rmula1/25310485

Someone must have offered them money.

[X61]

Someone must have offered them money.

This idea was scrapped to distract everyone from the even dumber rule that made it though.

[ardbeg]

"Formula 1 teams reject proposal to enforce two pit stops"

 

http://www.bbc.com/s...rmula1/25310485

We did it!

[PayasYouRace]

Glad this one didn't go through. Someone must have remembered how bad it was when CART tried it.

[demet06]

Pirelli, I'm afraid have had a bad press over the last couple of seasons by making exactly the tyres that the FIA asked for. The teams compounded (no pun intended) the problem by switching the left and right sided rears which gave us a dangerous situation at Silverstone with de-laminating tyres, almost resulting in the race being abandoned. This looked terrible in an age of technical excellence but it was the teams (going against Pirelli's advice) and the FIA to blame in my book.

The teams should be able to do their own strategy and if they have a car light on its tyres, then there should be no reason why they can't run from start to finish without stopping. There should be tyres that are durable enough to go the distance and of course softer compounds that will be faster but will suffer the inevitable wear. Then its up to the teams to select whatever is best for them, from them.

I'm sure if Pirelli was asked to provide such tyres, they would be more than happy to do so, rather than suffer the humiliation of Silverstone again.