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Originally Posted by psq43
Surely it's not beyond the realms of possibility, for tyre manufacturer to make a tyre which won't burst before the end of a race, yet provide some reasonably severe degradation, depending on how hard the drivers push on. Years ago in V8s, they had a multi compound tyre that gave extreme soft tyre type grip for a few Larry, then dropped off to the level of an extreme hard tyre and it was down to the drivers to manage it.
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They could, but I'm not sure any tyre company would want to. When every driver interview talks about how badly the tyres went off or how they so little grip by the end of the race, it's not really great PR image for the tyre company.