Joshua266 wrote: ↑22 Sep 2024, 10:41
djos wrote: ↑22 Sep 2024, 05:14
I just saw an interview with Daniel, he said the medium tires were great in FP3, but the soft tires in FP3 and qualifying didn’t work as well as they had on Friday, and the car setup was essentially unchanged.
Quite a few drivers seemed really unhappy with the soft tires not being consistent across sets. Apparently Pirelli were particularly upset by George being extra blunt.
Perez also said “I think we had good preparation through Q1, but in Q2 there was something going funny with the tyres,” he told the official F1 channel.
Daniel's comments regarding the tires are interesting, particularly the fact that the mediums performed admirably in FP3 but the softs showed uneven performance. Perez believed to have been among the drivers impacted by this volatility. Pirelli obviously has some problems, as evidenced by George's frank remarks, which brought out their annoyance. In Formula One, tire performance always changes the game, and these discrepancies can have a significant effect on qualifying tactics and race results.
George was on the radio complaining about the tires in iirc Q1 - it definitely says something when he’s complaining about it despite having a sit down with Pirelli after Baku.
This isn’t the first time drivers have complained about Pirelli batches being different quality despite being the same compound. It really seemed to hamper braking performance for Daniel.
On Friday, there was barely 1/10th between Daniel and Yuki, then suddenly 3-4ths on Saturday.
Edit: I found George’s quote;
“I don’t understand these bloody tyres,” he said on his radio during Q1. “I don’t understand how we lose eight tenths one session to the next. So different.”
https://www.racefans.net/2024/09/22/pir ... omplaints/