Tyres and restrictive rules mean another one-stop race

10 comments on “Tyres and restrictive rules mean another one-stop race”

1. 

   bezza695 (@bezza695)
   21st June 2015, 20:41

   Here come the comments about one stop being boring from the majority of people who complained about the tyres being too aggressive in 2011,2012 & 2013
   1. 

      Lenny
      21st June 2015, 21:21

      +1 was about to say the same… In my opinion the tyres r just fine! What is watering down performance is everyone’s updates being sub-par; hope the test session gives Ferrari,Force India,McLaren and Sauber enough data to improve and make things interesting!Mercedes is just too good,hands down a bulletproof package
      1. 

         bezza695 (@bezza695)
         21st June 2015, 21:25

         Well Force India have a new car for Silverstone, would be good idea to test that on one of the two days, Ferrari its really strange that even with PU upgrades and spending tokens its nothing on Mercedes Reliability upgrade meaning they can run more power for longer
   2. 

      Neel Jani (@neelv27)
      21st June 2015, 21:29

      +2! I agree. What gives a boring race (in my opinion, this GP was ok) is huge performance differential between teams and that is difficult to overcome and a little bit of DRS as well. The rest is all fine. Just open up rules and some in-season testing. In 2012, when we had one in-season testing, Ferrari came out as winners from that test and so did Williams. You restrict the number of days but allow in-season testing for other teams to catch up and open up aerodynamic rules to an extent to spice things up.
   3. 

      David-A (@david-a)
      21st June 2015, 21:43

      One stoppers aren’t boring in my opinion. Bridgestone had in right in 2010, and if we have tyres like those, that you can choose to push or conserve on from Pirelli, then that’s fine by me. My only complaint back then was the mandatory pitstop rule, as that closes the strategic possibility of doing the entire race on one set of tyres.
   4. 

      @HoHum (@hohum)
      22nd June 2015, 0:19

      My thoughts were; What would have been different if there had been no pitstops, the big one I guess would have been Vettel probably holding of Massa for 3rd. otherwise I imagine the cars would have been closer together with only the Manor running in clean air.
2. 

   Alec Glen (@alec-glen)
   21st June 2015, 22:03

   I’m not going to comment on the race but what are Pirelli actually up to? Their whole mandate and every time Paul Hembrey’s on the TV he talks about trying to make every race a marginal 2/3 stopper, they’re clearly failing in that regard (and have done for the second half of the season every year) so why aren’t they getting any stick?
   It’s not as if the tyres are too good, as we all know their performance is lacking, more of a case that now all the teams have infrared cameras looking at their tyres and a better understanding of the operating window the comedy element to the tyres has been nullified leaving us with drivers nursing 70 laps of a one stop race with no strategy element.
   1. 

      bosyber (@bosyber)
      22nd June 2015, 13:26

      Didn’t they change the tyre allocations for later races after seeing to few stops in the first races @alec-glen? They changed the compound for this year a bit, and can’t really change that quickly, and even tyre allocations have to be done several weeks in advance due to production, QA, and transport, so we just haven’t seen it be effected yet.
3. 

   KaIIe (@kaiie)
   22nd June 2015, 0:31

   While I have nothing against one-stoppers, the problem with the current tyres are that they deteriorate in dirty air too quickly to make these races more fun to watch. Now most of the field maintained a solid gap to the car in front, and then pushed for a few laps before and after their pitstop.

   I suppose Pirelli could also change the tyres midseason ala 2013, but that would just cause some more negative feedback and change in the pecking order “artificially”.
4. 

   nihale
   22nd June 2015, 14:32

   Maybe they should drop pit stop all together….

Comments are closed.