Glad Pirelli don't make our race tyres

[johnboy]

So glad Pirelli don't make rc tyres after today's British gp ha

[Nas]

I am totally shocked and annoyed!!

FIA need to view their contract with Pirelli, its a simple piss take, even after their 1000km tyre test with Mercedes.

Burning rubber hit Kimi directly at his helmet and was in his cockpit at about 180mph.....

Massa crashed out at 145mph,He could have been going MUCH faster....

Sebastian's right rear was split when he made his pit stop! thankfully he came in just in time, still feeling really upset from Sebastian loosing 5th gear and ruining his gearbox ruined his race at first i thought it was a sensor issue with the gearbox as it seemed like he had all the gears, but that 5th gear ruined the gearbox. Really very annoyed, but looking forward to my home Grand Prix next week Sebastian will pick up some good points there.

Back to the tyre issue, is it tyre deg? are they overheating?
Sebastian normally runs 16 to 18 PSI but due the tyre problems their Pirelli tyre suggested to add 2 more PSI, the high pressure had a effect on traction and it effected his lap times....

It has to be Tyre deg or serious overheating. Normally tyre deg is easily monitored but something was SERIOUS wrong and Pirelli need a serious sit down!

Or.... Turn 4 and 5 Kerbs seemed to "RAZOR SHARP" Apparently, maybe that's the issue? but we saw other drivers hitting turns 4 and 5 without any issue... unless Bernie Ecclestone has installed Gremlins in the teams he doesn't favour haha!

Paul Hembery-PIRELLI motorsport boss isn't happy at all and has taken samples back to the lab for serious reviewing before the German Grand Prix,Bernie has given him a bit of a "telling off" that'll make no difference....

Let's see what happens....

[CHEVY]

I hope Pirelli don't make condoms;-)

[cmgreen]

I am very happy vettel broke down.

Tyre issue, well its there own fault!

[terry.sc]

Originally Posted by CHEVY

I hope Pirelli don't make condoms;-)

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.

[justleanitupabit]

I actually have a lot of sympathy for Pirelli, they were asked to make tyres that would degrade to help the racing/show - and to do so with a very limited amount of testing. It's hardly surprising that there are issues - and let's not forget the teams always leave no margins (you run the tyres as low as possible) and only had add 3/4 psi to the tyre pressure to stop it happening. (Which is what they did eventually)

[Burty248]

It was a shame but it is actually good now that it did happen. Now everyone is running around changing rules without approval to insure that it doesnt happen again. It also proves home of the british grand prix is still one of the most demanding tracks on the f1 calender.