2019 Tyre Nonsense

[Mr Pointy]

This one is for all of the simpletons who were moaning about being unable to cope with the current concept of seven tyre grades & identifying colours:

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/pirelli-reveals...

Right, so a red soft tyre may actually be a 1,2 or 3 or an A, B or C compound. That's not confusing at all. I trust the whingers are happy now.

[Mr Pointy]

Gaz. said:

So exactly the same as the 2007-2010 Bridgestones. That was easy.

Not quite though is it? Seven is a much bigger range & it wasn't quite so obvious. The hardest tyre could only ever have been hard & the softest could only ever have been soft of while the middle two might be soft or hard. Next year the same compound tyre could be a hard, a medium or a soft depending on which of the range is taken to the race.

Kraken said:

The fact that someone is on a "soft" tyre and someone else is on a "medium" is all that is really relevant within the race itself. The fact that the soft might be two levels softer than the one used at the previous race is totally irrelevant to what goes on in the current race.

It does matter to those who actually follow F1. Each car has particular tyres it goes well on & those it doesn't (cf the blistered rears on the Ferraris). We are going to end up with car then went well on softs in one race going like a dog in the next because the compound has changed. The commentators are still going to have to explain why this is the case & start reffering to the actual compound names.

[Mr Pointy]

I see the way Pirelli are going to identify the tyre compounds has been released:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/barcelona-testi...

There are five tyres types & of the first four races three will use compounds 2,3 & 4, so white, yellow & red. Seems clear enough. Bahrain will use compunds 1,2 & 3. That's white, white with a stripe & yellow. When the tyres are going round how are the viewers going to quickly tell the difference between the first two?

I always thought this was a rubbish idea.

[Mr Pointy]

The Moose said:

Mr Pointy said:

I see the way Pirelli are going to identify the tyre compounds has been released:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/barcelona-testi...

There are five tyres types & of the first four races three will use compounds 2,3 & 4, so white, yellow & red. Seems clear enough. Bahrain will use compunds 1,2 & 3. That's white, white with a stripe & yellow. When the tyres are going round how are the viewers going to quickly tell the difference between the first two?

I always thought this was a rubbish idea.

Did you bother to read to even the second paragraph of the article you linked before posting this?

No, I was too outraged to read it properly. Oops. Anyway, ony 47 days to go.