F1 slick tyres

[ajprice]

As F1 cars won't be running grooved tyres anymore, is there going to be any visual difference between the hard and soft compound tyres? I'm guessing here that there still will be a hard and soft compound dry tyre next year, but they can't really paint a white stripe on the slicks so what are they going to do? White stripe sidewalls?

[dpbird90]

Don't know, don't care. Slicks look cool enough, I'm not really bothered by which compound tyre they're on. Anyway, I thought there was going to be one choice of slick tyre to even things out?

[skinny]

the two tyre rule will continue, only to add to the spectacle () the difference between the compounds will be much more marked than this year, so that it's actually impossible to set your car up for the race. instead of making tyres with optimum performance, they are putting in performance drop-off instead.

think they're still deciding how to distinguish between the two compounds. maybe sidewall marking?

Edited by skinny on Friday 12th December 15:34

[E30M3SE]

skinny said:

the two tyre rule will continue, only to add to the spectacle () the difference between the compounds will be much more marked than this year, so that it's actually impossible to set your car up for the race. instead of making tyres with optimum performance, they are putting in performance drop-off instead.

think they're still deciding how to distinguish between the two compounds. maybe sidewall marking?

Edited by skinny on Friday 12th December 15:34

And they are on about cost cutting.............

[mchammer89]

Different coloured tyres

How about those ones that give off coloured smoke when you do a burnout