Carl Mccoy wrote: ↑15 Jun 2019, 20:50
Was there ever a worse supplier of tires in F1 than Pirelli. Looking at their attitude in F1, I would never buy their road tires. Recently, Pirelli cried that the banking corner in Zandvoort will be very difficult for their mediocre tires.
But if you go back to previous eras the long-lasting tyres didn't help the racing. For example 2005 when there were basically 2 good races and in Imola nobody could get past and Schumacher was stuck in the fastest car in 12th until various things like refuelling happened. And then they could follow at like .75s and the aero is twice as bad now!
If we had these mythical Bridgestones the racing wouldn't even exist. With no refuelling we depend on the tyres almost completely, with undercuts, overcuts and deltas. And not only in the races - Mercedes can engineer their car to work them and Haas can't, Ferrari and Red Bull are engineering like mad to catch up, that's how F1 should be afaic. And in Indycars they're always going on about the Firestones, just the same
And on road tyres Pirelli are standard fit on McLarens and it won't be because they're cheap
Pirelli do what they're told, and they get a lot of crap for it, but imo we owe most of the actual racing to them