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Control tyre or more dumbing down
I have to voice my concern over the desire of the FIA to proceed with a control tyre after 2008.
The drive for continuing interest in F1 is its unpredictability. Tyre suppliers add that element.
The excuse about reducing cost is a red herring. The FIA have consistently baulked at imposing testing limits on the teams. A good solution to this problem was proposed by Nigel Roebuck in Autosport. The teams can do as much testing as they like, but can only use the same set of tyres provided at the GPs. If each driver has four sets of tyres for a GP meet that limits each team to around 600 laps after each GP assuming that the race set cannot be reused as they are over the amount of miles run.
The problem with a control tyre is that it limits performance more to the quality of the teams chassis. If one team has a big advantage there is very little chance of other teams clawing that back. Hence one team dominates a season and we know the championship result after the first three races.
What will bring the casual observer to the sport is if we see Michelin, Bridgestone and Goodyear all competing against each other.
Time also for the FIA to reimpose the 4 point differential between first and second places as well.
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and then the heart and soul of F! gets stripped out....
Kind a of like Nascar claiming that they are "stock car racing" When was the last time any one sold a car "stock" with a 4 barrel carb?
If there was a control tyre Minardi (and Jordan) would be closer to the rest of the pack by at least 1 second a lap. (I don't really care for Jordan by the way)
The tyre compound doesn't add any spectacle to the race. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather see drivers on the brink trying to control the car than going around a corner at 200kph.
For Minardi, the further up the grid they go because of a more even playing field, the more sponsors are likely to put money into the team.
Finally, Forza Minardi membership might reach 200/300 members so better for everyone here!
Damn it ...that was 5 cents worth!
Above all the tyre would be conservative with speed, durable and safe, something that Michelin are failing to demonstrate on a race by race basis, witness: Indy, Williams at Turkey, McLaren at Monza.
Will a control tyre be applied equally to all teams or will TOIT have better access to testing data and compound selection to suit the chassis, recent history would suggest this to be the case.