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Although I do wonder if it is just to the limits of the allowable tolerances, for after all no team will want to go so rogue that they definitely will have a failure. Surely they must be heeding Pirelli’s p […]

@randommallard There was also that awkwardness of them having to make 13” tires for one year. But I think what is also key is that along with Michelin not wanting to make degrady tires (of course they always d […]

@dbradock I guess Pirelli hopes a slightly different starting pressure or tire blanket temp will help, but how sure can Pirelli be that come lap 30 that starting pressure or temp will have made a difference? The […]

@dbradock I see it a bit differently. I think they are admitting fault in as hidden a way as possible. The tires that blew were made properly and not defective, the teams followed the existing parameters, but the […]

@f1osaurus Zero ammo Trumposaurus says the teams will say whatever they want to deflect the blame from themselves or their drivers, but when out of ammo now I’m the one calling them liars. Lol nice try but that k […]

@dbradock I’m hopeful that common sense will prevail, but moreso I am hopeful that simply by the very nature of the low profile 18” tires, the very physics of them, they will be much different than currently. I c […]

@marcusaurelius Lol funny when you word it that way.

For me the key words are ‘in spite of the prescribed starting parameters having been followed.’ Pirelli provided an instruction manual to go with their pro […]

@petebaldwin But there’s the rub. Their explody F1 tires are not new, and yet they continue to spend hundreds of millions to be a major sponsor of F1 and have their logo splashed all over tracks around the w […]

Robert my understanding is that they were asked to make degrady tires but that it would be preferred if they made them tread wear tires rather than thermal wear tires. Problem is tread wear tires are more […]

@bookgrub Well said. These tires are way way too finicky. Never has there been more of a reason for them to make tread wear tires for next year, or Pirelli risks throwing out the window all the hard work the teams […]

@f1osaurus You’ve run out of ammo. Pirelli has now admitted the teams were not at fault for the tire failures, so, so much for your ‘propaganda’ imaginings. When CH said Max was not abusing his tires, and that […]

@f1osaurus You don’t want to stick to the facts about Baku 2021 and that’s just you being you. Meanwhile Baku is not known to be hard on tires and there was no mention of kerbing being a problem nor of drivers nee […]

I completely agree with Marko and have literally worded it the same way. It makes no sense for Mercedes to not replace VB with GR for next year. VB has had his time and now they need to bring in the new heir […]

@f1osaurus None of your examples have anything to do with Baku 2021. So you’re saying SV was found to have abused his tires at Silverstone? Ok, if true. At Baku what drivers were being told to stay off kerbs? W […]

@noname Lol well there you have it…the scientific answer to it all.

@amam Not a mention all weekend of kerbs being an issue and RBR reports that Max was not abusing his tires, and in terms of ‘Max’s fault’ you would think that if indeed he was abusing the tires somehow, the team […]

@aiii There are two schools of thought on what constitutes the Triple Crown of Motorsport, and one is F1 title, Indy 500, and Lemans. The other is Monaco GP, Indy 500, and Lemans. Personally I have always thought […]

Truly going to be one race at a time. As we have seen even when a track ‘should’ favour one team’s car, that doesn’t guarantee anything. And what tracks will they even be racing at? Huge kudos to Max and RBR and […]

@bernasaurus I will never forget that he is a F1 WDC which puts him in an exclusive club on it’s own, as well as a CART Champion and and Indy 500 winner, and he came second at Lemans, and therefore came within a s […]

@balue And again I don’t see where this is playing hardball with FA. If his demands were too much so be it, that’s on FA not CH or HM. I googled it and FA himself said he rejected RBR because of lack of car per […]