Nope... more like Red Bull who conveniently involved Pirelli!! 
Right...I don't think other teams would just lie down and let Redbull run the show, they had enough of that from Ferrari in the 2000s. 
Pirelli might have been pressured by Redbull but the Silverstone GP was a farce and something had to be done. And Pirelli acted, there was no way anyone was getting into an F1 car again with the same spec tyres as Silverstone. If it disadvantaged a few teams, too bad. The tyres were too dangerous.
You don't think it's strange that a tire company doesn't test its compounds BEFORE sending their
product to market/customers?
It didn't seem strange that there tires were fine until Red Bull couldn't get them to work for them?
It didn't seem unfair to the teams who were able to design their car around the "initial" tires?
The only way for Pirelli to change their tires and still come out smelling like roses was for them
to ""find"" a problem with the tires and claim that they only had the best interest of the drivers
and their teams in mind! Yeah... uh-huh... Whatever!!
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F1 2013 – Did Pirelli break the rules and modify tyres without consent? Spanish newspaper Marca claims that Pirelli broke the rules ahead of the British Grand Prix by modifying the tyres without the consent of the teams or FIA.
Reporter Marco Canseco said “At worst, it jeopardised the lives of the drivers,” who also claims that a Kevlar material was included into the internal steel belt.
Paul Hembery of Pirelli denies the changes and said ”I can assure you that the tyres (at Silverstone) were the same construction as the ones used in Barcelona.”
Sure, it's a "conspiracy" theory, if you like; but, Ferrari wasn't the only team fighting
against that change in composition. Nor was Alonso the only driver to recognize the
impact on the season:
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Will Pirelli be allowed to bring new tires without consent of Formula One teams?...
Pirelli's plan to introduce Kevlar-belted rear tires for the British GP could still be blocked by the Formula One teams, despite the company announcing yesterday that it was “set to” make the change.
Pirelli may be a little optimistic, because any change of tire specification still requires unanimous consent from the teams, and that has not yet been forthcoming.
Agreement is required, because Pirelli has not played the safety card, which trumps the usual arrangement and requires no agreement from the teams...
...One might assume that Pirelli does not want to resort to formally declaring that its current tires are unsafe in order to force the change through. Indeed,
Paul Hembery has repeatedly made it clear Pirelli is more worried from a PR point of view about how a tread delamination looks on TV.
There is also the question of whether a loss of tread can be justified as a safety issue, when in fact it has allowed drivers to continue safely when as opposed to losing control due to a complete tire failure.
Even Hembery admitted in Monaco that the delaminating tires could actually be viewed as safer, given that they allow drivers to continue.
“It doesn't deflate, that's certainly true,” he said. “That is an aspect. Visually from a tiremaker's point of view, it's not great. Some of the damage we've seen this year more than likely would have caused a deflation, as we've seen in previous seasons, so that is debatable.
It just looks really poor, so we have to change.”
Others in the pit lane support the view that the current tires are better.
“The safest mode of failure with a cut tire is what they have,” one team insider told this writer. “Or you can have a puncture that deflates rapidly and then explodes. The safest thing they can do is basically make this construction not delaminate. That's just a bonding issue between the tread and the casing, that's the bottom line.
“They found out that last year's tires have the better bond, because the bond between Kevlar and rubber is a lot easier to get right than it is between steel and rubber. For them, it's let's go back to Kevlar, and then the tread won't come off. But you'll get punctures.”
That last bit about Pirelli's "bonding issue" suggests (to me) that it was a matter of not having
chosen/tested/developed the right sort of ""glue"" for everything to stay together.
Simplistic? Probably!! Wrong? Who knows, without definitive proof?
