The F1 Thread 2013 Season

I would expect Lewis on fresher tyres to be able to pass Kimi?
 
I don't get the rule that every car has to drive with both sets of tyres. I liked it when teams could choose wether they want to go fast with soft tyres with an advantage in qualifying but have to stop more often or use the hard tyres with less stops. Teams could actually find different strategies that worked well. Now it's just chaos but in the end every car had the same stints - 2 with hard, 1 very short with soft tyres that was just annoying. How is that more interesting?
 
Balu said:
I don't get the rule that every car has to drive with both sets of tyres. I liked it when teams could choose wether they want to go fast with soft tyres with an advantage in qualifying but have to stop more often or use the hard tyres with less stops. Teams could actually find different strategies that worked well. Now it's just chaos but in the end every car had the same stints - 2 with hard, 1 very short with soft tyres that was just annoying. How is that more interesting?
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You've not watched F1 that long then? Mandatory use of both tyre compounds was brought in when Bridgestone were the choice of tyres. The Bridgestones could last an entire race on one set of tyres, so the FIA decided to make a rule to enforce teams to use both compounds during the race to make it less boring.
 
F-Red said:
You've not watched F1 that long then? Mandatory use of both tyre compounds was brought in when Bridgestone were the choice of tyres. The Bridgestones could last an entire race on one set of tyres, so the FIA decided to make a rule to enforce teams to use both compounds during the race to make it less boring.
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Remember when teams used to have a choice between Silverstone and Michelin? Those were the days.
 
Slevs said:
Remember when teams used to have a choice between Silverstone and Michelin? Those were the days.
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Silverstone :lol:

I hated the tyre wars days, races were won & lost depending on your tyre choice. Everyone on the same tyres gives some uniform approach as to who the most skilful driver is.
 
I like the idea of using the different compounds, much better than it used to be , one set lasting all race, but these soft are a waste of time 5-6 laps on a set of tyres is not long enough and turns a race away from speed to one of tyre management.
 
F-Red said:
You've not watched F1 that long then? Mandatory use of both tyre compounds was brought in when Bridgestone were the choice of tyres. The Bridgestones could last an entire race on one set of tyres, so the FIA decided to make a rule to enforce teams to use both compounds during the race to make it less boring.
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Quite the opposite actually. That's why I remember it being different. Pirelli isn't offering any tyres that last an entire race, so the reasoning behind the rule doesn't make sense any more.
 
Eddie Jordan before the race: 'I don't think Alonso is suited to this track'.
 
Di Resta pits so Button moves to 5th, hoping he can defend Massa now.
 
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