Secret tyre debut leaves F1 teams angry at Pirelli
- Published on 18 Mar 2016 12:44
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- By: Rob Veenstra
F1 teams are reportedly angry that Pirelli introduced a new tyre late last year without telling them. Germany's Auto Motor und Sport said it emerged during a technical meeting between the teams and Charlie Whiting in Melbourne that the new tyre made its secret debut in Brazil last November.
Reportedly, it was the new multi-layered tyre that Pirelli intended to try at the Abu Dhabi test two weeks later. But on the basis of the secret running in Brazil, the concept - where a special rubber layer replicates the old tyre grip 'cliff' - was sidelined. "We are no longer sure what we tested in Abu Dhabi," one unnamed team technical boss said in Melbourne.
The story has apparently only come out after a Pirelli engineer working for Lotus last year accidentally forwarded an email to the Enstone based team. Auto Motor und Sport said the teams are angry."The tyre supplier is obliged to communicate technical modifications of the tyres to the teams and the FIA," said correspondent Michael Schmidt.
"The question is whether this scandal will have consequences." That aside, the meeting on Friday reportedly went well, with Pirelli agreeing to produce bigger, faster and more durable tyres for 2017, even though the final contracts with the FIA are yet to be signed. (GMM)
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Login to replyf1dave
Posts: 782
Six types of dry tires, really, F1 only needs two tires, wet or dry, everything else is just a gimmick.
khasmir
Posts: 893
Indeed, but add inters ;)
And I could even live with a hard and soft dry tyre but it has spun out of control.
calle.itw
Posts: 8,527
I agree, there are too many tyre options. It doesnt spice up the show, it just make is complicated. One wet, one intermediate, one soft and one hard, maybe even one medium, but that should really be it. I would've really preferred Michelin's route, sadly that one was not chosen.
mclarenfan1968
Posts: 1,027
Don't worry the next tyre will be self lubricating and the advertisment will be on the tyre side walls that reads "Durex"
RacetoWin
Posts: 95
pirelli, the ugliest tyre in motorsport!!!
Let put a pink and purple dress on the worlds fastest race car!!
change the F@ing sidewall colours you idiots!