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It is a pointless debate if just chosing specifics as there is nothing to stop a dull race in any regulations. It is interesting that some of these spec series have to introduce the side-effect they lost from competition. Red-walled tyres, push to pass. Far better to let these things in naturally and have changes develop with the cars. Quote:
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I am amazed at the folk who are against tyre wars. Don't you realise this is the primary reason why the seasons have been pretty exciting? Advantages ebbed and flowed and changed every weekend, every session. It was great.
Mark Hughes wrote a wonderful column on this in Autosport a few weeks back that sums up my feelings on the tyre war perfectly. We have lost a wonderful, wonderful element of the sport. The control tyre will make no difference to driver/car input either. It will just stifle variety and we will have rather more predictable race weekends. |
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I would have liked Michelin to stay and perhaps,along with other tyre manufactures,produced tyres that all the teams could use at all the races.They could be tested on Friday and each team would use the tyre it thought most suitable from all the makes.The best tyre will obviously win through,which means the others have to up their game.Fancifull I know,but at least there is competition. |
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The rules in '00, were very much a carry over of '98 and '99. Great looking cars, great racing, lots of unpredictability. Bog standard completely undeveloped GoodYear slicks, the aero restrictions of 1998-00, V10s, and I'll be happy. Simply putting standard slick tyres on again would reduce the speeds by a second or so anyway, tyres that blister when pushed to hard, not these black things that seem to grip and grip and grip for an entire race distance. |
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If you read racecar engineering you will know tha I have forseen doom and gloom - fire and white cloud factories at the F1 circuits of the world in 2008.
The engines were all developed with a particular management system in mind many teams like, Toyota for example built the system around the needs of the engine so now swithching to a spec ECU could cause massive problems - they have not tested it and even if they can't make thier engine work well with it they can't change thier engine under the development freeze. These frozen engines (designed to last 1500km) will also possibly have to do 3000km - though the teams should be a allowed a mild tinker if that happens other wise its a lot more boom bang a bang. |
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The tyres would be known from pre-season testing. The teams may find that one make suits one type of circuit better than another,or that one make suits their car better than another.The possibilities are endless.And it's the same for everyone. There would probably come a point where all the makes of tyre would become virtually the same,as would have probably happened had Michelin continued to battle with Bridgestone despite their differing philosophies. |
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A recent quote from Martin Brundle.
"I drove the Red Bull at Silverstone recently - in the wet on intermediates - and even an old ****** like me could go into Copse, stamp on the throttle, and the car just sticks! It blew my mind. I've driven F1 cars, on slicks, on a dry track, that had less grip than that. Can't be right, can it? How are we ever going to have racing when the cars are like that?" Maybe we do have to go backwards in order to go forwards. |
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Development on tyres was cut short when they changed the rules back to the 'Sprint-pit-sprint-pit' regulations.Everyone went back to what they already knew,instead of making the one tyre rule work to their and our advantage.So a missed opportunity there IMO.Even now it would be quite possible to let the F1 cars run on GP2 slicks for an instant reduction in lap times.Been there done that,let's move on! |
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