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Force India: Let the teams choose their own Pirelli compounds in secret


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#51 peroa

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Posted 26 April 2015 - 07:26

And they'd have another compound of their choice as a "safe" option. F1 could do with a bit of risk on behalf of the competitors choices. It's no different from a team bringing a new wing or suspension set up that doesn't work effectively.

 

Get the teams making some decisions and it would potentially give us more exciting racing too. Why should the teams be protected from making poor choices by forcing everyone to use the same thing?

Do you really want 2002-2005 back? When you knew in advance that one tyre make/type had absolutely no chance against the other?

That's not particularly exciting.

 

The Pirelli tyres behave to unpredictable from circuit to circuit, the gap from compound to compound is too big and unpredictable.


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#52 PayasYouRace

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Posted 26 April 2015 - 07:48

Do you really want 2002-2005 back? When you knew in advance that one tyre make/type had absolutely no chance against the other?

That's not particularly exciting.

 

The Pirelli tyres behave to unpredictable from circuit to circuit, the gap from compound to compound is too big and unpredictable.

 

It wouldn't be like that, would it? We know most teams would make the same choices anyway. But maybe you'd get one team choosing something else because their car is particularly easy/hard on its tyres.



#53 Henri Greuter

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Posted 26 April 2015 - 08:44

i don't like that too much. a better idea would be to reverse the starting grid.

 

 

Now that would be something: Everyone sandbagging during practice and qualifying in order to avoid being put at the tail of  the field. ......

 

 

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#54 krobinson

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Posted 26 April 2015 - 08:57

In essence, not a bad idea. It could result in some weird qualy results or might sometimes bring about "abnormal" race results, but why not?

 

 

 

i don't like that too much. a better idea would be to reverse the starting grid.

:rolleyes:

 



#55 Nonesuch

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Posted 26 April 2015 - 09:08

Do you really want 2002-2005 back? When you knew in advance that one tyre make/type had absolutely no chance against the other?

 

I'm not sure why you include the years preceding 2005, and even then Schumacher came 3rd in the WDC on Bridgestones by beating the likes of Montoya and Fisichella in their Michelin-shod WCC contenders. The competition between Bridgestone and Michelin wasn't regularly such that one of them had 'no chance' on account of the tyres. Perhaps the one thing Michelin never really seemed to get on top of was the Intermediate tyre (Indianapolis 2003, for example).



#56 Bleu

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Posted 26 April 2015 - 09:29

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X=Super Soft S=Soft M=Medium H=Hard

 

On a very quick search this is what I found out on tyre choices during the Pirelli era. Yes, the compounds have changed throughout the years but the basic idea of some circuits needing harder tyres can still be seen. Melbourne is the only circuit where all four have been selected at some point.

 

So I don't think there would be major differences so that one team would take two softest and another two hardest. Anyway, I see this idea as a good one.