Formula 1 has a problem with its tires

Pirelli brought its softer range available from tires, -C3, C4 and C5-. Urban circuit, theoretically special, abrasive asphalt … and did not matter. Neither the high temperatures, nor the clean asphalt after the fall of the rains. Nothing disturbed the behavior of the Pirelli, something that they probably feel very proud in the factory, but that nevertheless is harming the emotion of the races.

New career at a stop

And it is not the fact that with the softer range of tires, and without any rubber on the track, the race was at a single stop, it was completed half the race with the middle rubber without glimpse the slightest sign of wear, producing the stops as a measure of protection against pilots that had launched an ‘undercut’, or still, by the exit of a safety car.

And something is not right when there is no difference between going out with media and ending hard, to start with hard and end means, because the logic dictates that one has to be better than the other, and if both give the same result, it is that there is something that is not right.

As happened in Saudi Arabia, with the exception of Doohan, all the pilots completed the race with a single stop. No one did anything different. Not even trying luck with a soft.

And it is not a good scenario for anyone who reminds the worst time of Bridgestone, where his soft and hard compound were indistinguishable in the race, reaching almost complete races with the soft.

Pirelli’s position is not comfortable. If the tire is destroyed, the fan complains. If the compound is very soft, the teams choose to manage, roll slowly, and save the stop, and the fan complains. And if the compound is hard enough, so much that it allows you to throw the entire race without wear, there is no strategy, and the fan also complains. Especially if in races like this, the strategy is also conditioned by a security car or virtual safety car.

It is clear that it will never rain to everyone’s taste, and precisely for this reason, perhaps Pirelli would do well in losing the fear they will say and return to that crazy ‘cliff’ and tires, pneumatics taking pieces before the excesses. Although we would also criticize it.

Maximum speed in the ‘Pitlane’

Very well thrown, someone pointed to the need to reduce time in boxes so that a stop is not so harmful so that the equipment prefers to lift their foot to change tires, so the possibility of increasing the speed limit can be an interesting solution, but it is impossible to ignore that it is afraid to think of the cars passing to 100 kilometers per hour at half a meter where personal works. Difficult solution.