- 20 Sep 07, 19:48#14638
"Of course I understand that people want to see five seconds per lap difference between the two tyres, but that is just technically impossible.
"Bridgestone's head of track engineering operations Kees van der Grint said: "For us everything worked quite well. I think having two specs (each race) was a good idea, one for safety reasons, and also that you see some difference in strategy and qualifying.
"Of course I understand that people want to see five seconds per lap difference between the two tyres, but that is just technically impossible.
This was from the Autosport website.. the idea of it being technically impossible is pretty strange.. i think it would be pretty easy, but what would be the point? all you'd get is cars coming in, changing tyres, doing one lap, coming straight back in and changing back...
alternatively, you'd say "minimum 12 laps on each tyre" then you can pretty much guarantee, you'd get a very slow last 12 laps, because EVERYONE would have the same strategy.. how could it wouk any other way? ok, you could put them on at the start and end up 1 minute behind, then try to make it up at the end, but even with a tyre thats 5 seconds faster, people would still hold you up enough that you'd only make up a small part of the time you lost at the start