Ether wrote:If I were Pirelli, with F1 contract in my hand, I won't make the tyres that bad... You know, at least if FIA asked to, I would make a standard one, under advance, or average. Then if they asked more, I will make it a little bit under standard, but still average. If it's still not enough, and is going to end of the contract in F1, I would still make just a little bit below average, but it will still be good enough.
In business view, Pirelli did something stupid. I know he did well in terms of accomplishing of what F1 want. F1 might enjoy as Pirelli spice up the race for some years now. BUT.. in Business view, there is no advantage at all in this. I believe, in terms of R&D too, learning to make BAD TYRES? Are you kidding me? This might simply have no business advantage for Pirelli. Probably just Money.. as the teams paid them well. But Pirelli sure is already have bad image in peoples view..
Funny things is, I played some F1 managers game and found Pirelli is the 1st tyre available for rookie class and is the worst tyre available!! XD that's just simply amazing isn't it? Pirelli has made themselves the worst tyre supplier available! almost everywhere I find it intriguing!! And bridgestone certainly is the highest tyre supplier.
That's a fact actually... A painful fact for Pirelli. I think they simply don't get any business advantage except money.
Let's be frank, F1 is the pinacle of motorsports, they push everything to the limit. Michelin was notorious in wet tracks, I once watch in discovery channel, they (Michelin) actually having the tech to make the tracks wet artificially! They made it so to make the wet tyres so great in development. I believe it is something which is most inspired by F1 itself. F1 should have been a place to make the best on everything!
For tyres, I believe the best would be to make the car as fast as possible, and very short term of heating the tyres, durable, and anything innovatively! I don't know, maybe the tyres could pressure up and down by itself, blowing up and blowing down, etc. Just name anything we might know impossible at the first place. That is what we all think technology is about.
Let's say KERS, now KERS is available in road cars! but first KERS is implemented in F1, and develop in F1, prototype and tested in F1, then for the real products for the consumer worldwide. This should have been the things for Pirelli.
They did what the FIA wanted, they did what the teams wanted and agreed to. Thats the problem
Michelin are the best tyre manufacturer in the world, Ill be totally honest. The RX8 is the first car I chose AD08 semi-slick tyres over Pilot Super Sports (purely because I intend to do track days, and the semi-slicks would be better) but the winter tyres will be Michelin. I only have Michelin on my cars because of Formula 1, because the technology they utilise from F1, WRC, Moto GP and Le Mans into the road tyres. The quality you can clearly feel and see out in the road, its all born through motorsport. In frankness, Pirelli tyres are c**p anyway on the road, but this is what they have been asked to do.
I seriously lobbied for michelin to return to F1. Do you know why they didn't? Teams refused to change rim size from 13inch to atleast 16inch-18inch. 13inch Alloy wheels are extinct on new cars. Even crappy supermini cars have 14inch steelies. Formula 1 refuses to adapt and change. This debacle, this farce over the tyres is a prime example of teams not liking change and wanting to keep changing rules back to what suits them.
Here is some mock ups of F1 cars with 18inch, which the F1 teams were dead against;
I love it. much more relevant to the public roads, something which Formula 1 has been severely lacking.