Pirelli chooses softest tyres for Austria and Germany

16 comments on “Pirelli chooses softest tyres for Austria and Germany”

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   wsrgo (@wsrgo)
   6th June 2014, 10:09

   Egad.
   1. 

      Chris (@tophercheese21)
      7th June 2014, 7:02

      My thoughts exactly. lol
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   HK (@me4me)
   6th June 2014, 10:42

   Good job by Pirelli. I guess the team get what they want; soft tyres.
   1. 

      Fsoud (@udm7)
      6th June 2014, 10:57

      You beat me to it.
   2. 

      anon
      6th June 2014, 22:36

      And despite the fact that the teams and drivers have complained about Pirelli being conservative with the tyres this season – hardly surprising given what happened in 2013 – no doubt they will start complaining that the tyres are ‘too soft’ when Pirelli does opt for softer compounds.
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   marc512 (@)
   6th June 2014, 11:20

   I’m curious. Would they ever do a Super Soft – Hard combination? Sounds stupid but I think it would spice up the racing.
   1. 

      Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
      6th June 2014, 12:00

      They rarely do more than one step difference between prime and option. I guess it becomes more difficult for teams to set up the cars to suit both compounds the further apart they are in hardness. Might be interesting but it’s bad PR for tPirelli if the supersoft tyre dies within 3-4 laps, which it probably would if the circuit was demanding enough to warrant using the hard compound.
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         VMaxMuffin (@vmaxmuffin)
         6th June 2014, 12:18

         They rarely do more than one step difference between prime and option

         They (or maybe it was just with Bridgestone?) used to try and always make it two steps to make the difference greater – i.e. Super soft-Medium or Soft-Hard. Of course exceptions applied, for example they always went Super soft – Soft for Monaco. They may have also done Medium-Hard too at some circuits that were tougher on tyres, can’t remember though.
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            Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
            6th June 2014, 12:37

            By ‘They’ i meant Pirelli specifically, though maybe the stats would prove me wrong. I can’t remember further back than that ;)
   2. 

      Ciaran (@ciaran)
      6th June 2014, 13:04

      I think they tried it once at Hockenheim 2010 – it didn’t work.
      1. 

         Sri Harsha (@harsha)
         6th June 2014, 14:29

         You are right The Super Soft and Hard compound choice is used in Hockenheim 2010 only
         1. 

            Patrick (@paeschli)
            6th June 2014, 15:51

            From the Wikipedia article:

            The race was also the scene of Bridgestone’s attempt to re-create the conditions at Montreal, where extreme tyre degradation had made the racing closer. However, the plan to bring tyres at the opposite ends of the spectrum – super-soft and hard – had little effect. Nico Hülkenberg was able to do almost forty laps on the super-soft tyres, while Pedro de la Rosa – the final driver to complete his mandatory pit stop – was able to do a similar number on the hard tyre.
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   GT Racer (@gt-racer)
   6th June 2014, 14:29

   Remember that Pirelli are not making the tyres any softer, There just going to be using the softest tyres they have in the 2014 compounds.

   Given how all the 2014 compounds are a few steps harder than the 2013 tyres I doubt they will be that much easier to get upto operating temperature.
5. 

   SatchelCharge (@satchelcharge)
   6th June 2014, 14:52

   Seems a little bit extreme for the Red Bull Ring, no?
   1. 

      Strontium (@strontium)
      6th June 2014, 23:47

      It does rather, considering it has been 11 years, through which the cars have completely changed. Then again, they have data that we don’t.
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   Strontium (@strontium)
   6th June 2014, 23:46

   Wish they would drop Hungary, such a dull track. Just a shame a new deal was signed last year.

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