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Originally Posted by CHEVY
I hope Pirelli don't make condoms;-)
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The only problem would be if their customer told them to make them fall apart after limited use, like in F1.
Nothing stopping Pirelli making rock hard tyres that last forever, like the Bridgstones, but that's not what they've been asked to make. If they did Red Bull would be lapping the field at many races.
Silverstone created stresses that Pirelli hadn't found in testing, which we all know is something they can't do without it causing chaos amongst other teams. Tyres were overheating Teams running low tyre pressures putting more stress on the shoulder. Sharp kerb edges catching the tyres if they ran right over them. Then lets throw in the teams that wouldn't allow Pirelli to change the tyre construction to last years design, but did allow Pirelli to change the gluing method so they don't just delaminate the tread any more.
It's not just the tyres, if it was entirely down to the tyres we would have seen them exploding in Canada, but it doesn't help that they can't test them on modern chassis. It's like only testing tyres on a Ford Fiesta and guessing they won't explode on a Ferrari.
And we used to have tyres just like that in R/C, go back 10-15 years and touring cars and buggies had plenty of one run tyres, that's why we now have tyre limits and spec tyres these days.