Fenderman
Rooters Reporter
Heh, heh. By the time I read your idea The Artist..... I was loaded with cider and should really have been asleep! I took umbrage at having worked pretty hard to come up with a reasonable solution only to be told that, in effect, giving the reigning champ's an opportunity to have Pirelli make a tyre for them for the next season "make much more sense!" . Even framing it that way isn't very polite so you wouldn't have appreciated my knee jerk reaction, for sure.
For what it's worth here's a mild abridged version. Having played out a host of scenarios in my head for a 2014 season one was again dominated by Red Bull. In that one, everyone and their uncle accuse Red Bull and Pirelli of using the "champ' winning car to tyre supplier" arrangement to their own "financial and tactical advantage". No-one else appear to make the tyres work as well as Red Bull do and teams are pissed off that Red Bull save a load of dosh on entry fees to boot. By the time it transpires that it is all innuendo and crap F1 goes through a season full of political BS and International Tribunal inquiries with F1 looking as corrupt and fixed as ever. My head came up with a whole load of other problems with the idea but that is the main problem with it since it doesn't actually deal with the situation today and doesn't prevent a recurrence.
Next years cars will be quite different with the V6 turbo units having a big influence on chassis design as will whatever tyres are dished out to the teams. If Pirelli are going to remain neutral, and be seen to be neutral and fair, then they will need to gather data from all of the teams as they do now and try to engineer their tyres to provide a stable platform for all of them. Pirelli and the teams need a test regimen "in their back pocket" if unforeseen problems with a tyre compound or construction arise. What I mapped out in my earlier post was just one framework for tyre testing that deals with the crapola that's going on now.and would hopefully avoid it in the future.
For what it's worth here's a mild abridged version. Having played out a host of scenarios in my head for a 2014 season one was again dominated by Red Bull. In that one, everyone and their uncle accuse Red Bull and Pirelli of using the "champ' winning car to tyre supplier" arrangement to their own "financial and tactical advantage". No-one else appear to make the tyres work as well as Red Bull do and teams are pissed off that Red Bull save a load of dosh on entry fees to boot. By the time it transpires that it is all innuendo and crap F1 goes through a season full of political BS and International Tribunal inquiries with F1 looking as corrupt and fixed as ever. My head came up with a whole load of other problems with the idea but that is the main problem with it since it doesn't actually deal with the situation today and doesn't prevent a recurrence.
Next years cars will be quite different with the V6 turbo units having a big influence on chassis design as will whatever tyres are dished out to the teams. If Pirelli are going to remain neutral, and be seen to be neutral and fair, then they will need to gather data from all of the teams as they do now and try to engineer their tyres to provide a stable platform for all of them. Pirelli and the teams need a test regimen "in their back pocket" if unforeseen problems with a tyre compound or construction arise. What I mapped out in my earlier post was just one framework for tyre testing that deals with the crapola that's going on now.and would hopefully avoid it in the future.
Got the wrong end of the stick on that one 
...........ignore?
