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[racechick]

On Alonso, I remember reading somethig about him at the beginning of 2007. In practise for the season he was faster than Lewis (the car was running on rubber from the previous season) but when the season started Lewis was as fast, sometimes faster. I cant remember anymore than that about what the difference in the characteristics of the tyres was. So not sure how it translates to the current change.

At the beggining of '07 Michelin had just left, perhaps this is what you are alluding to, ie Alonso was running on Michelins in testing (for whatever reason, i haven't heard this fact before myself!).

Yes that will be what id read about. So if Alonso was better on the Michelins and lewis better on the Bridgestones (supposing the difference was nothing to do with a rookie getting the hang of things). how does that translate into this years tyre change?

Some drivers will adjust quicker either naturally or via previous experience. Or maybe a combination of both will be required. It's inevitable though that these new tyres from Pirelli will suit some drivers better than others.

Who though, is the question.

I would imagine that the likes of Hamilton/Koby will struggle with the change since they seem to wear their tyres out more than others with their aggressive driving style but in Abu Dhabi Hamilton seemed to cope rather well with his tyres graining and in the Japanese GP Koby went really far into the race on the same set of tyres.

So it really is guessing to see who is going to do better until we get a few races into the season.

On the other hand. Pushing early could 'switch the tyres on' quicker and be an advantage in quali and making early track position. It will be very dependant on weather , track conditions and more importantly how the car behaves with the tyres as to who benefits. so it will vary from raceto race and from parts of race to parts of race.

[FRAFPDD]

i cant wait till durex make the tyres, then youll see rubber that dont last.

[What's Burning?]

This guy is very committed to rubber for 2011.

[Gaz]

Final Colour Markings



The six colours are as follows:

Wet - orange
Intermediate - light blue
Supersoft - red
Soft – yellow
Medium – white
Hard – silver

Like the idea of being able to see who's on wets clearer and also the diffrence between soft med and hard rather than just the harder compound and the softer one.

[What's Burning?]

Final Colour Markings



The six colours are as follows:

Wet - orange
Intermediate - light blue
Supersoft - red
Soft – yellow
Medium – white
Hard – silver

Like the idea of being able to see who's on wets clearer and also the diffrence between soft med and hard rather than just the harder compound and the softer one.

It's "colorful" but not really any more functional.

[vlad]

You'll see which color degrades first...

[Jensonb]

Final Colour Markings



The six colours are as follows:

Wet - orange
Intermediate - light blue
Supersoft - red
Soft – yellow
Medium – white
Hard – silver

Like the idea of being able to see who's on wets clearer and also the diffrence between soft med and hard rather than just the harder compound and the softer one.

It's "colorful" but not really any more functional.

Well, it is in a way. Colouring the writing in this manner means that the colour coding should always be visible on the sidewall (in exactly the way it wasn't way way back when it was a dot, before they started painting the groove) and using bright colours with strong contrasts from black make the marking more apparent than the idiotically-chosen green of recent years. Seriously, had I met the person who said "let's not use white despite the fact it'd make it far easier to see, let's use green to make a superficial entirely too abstract statement about environmentalism!", I would have punched them in the mouth.

[darwin dali]

Can't wait for a race further down the road where the hard and medium tires are on offer as it turned out anything softer wouldn't last more than 3 laps

[Jensonb]

Can't wait for a race further down the road where the hard and medium tires are on offer as it turned out anything softer wouldn't last more than 3 laps

The slight uncertainty of which tyre was in use at any time at one event might make for an interesting one-off

[What's Burning?]

Final Colour Markings



The six colours are as follows:

Wet - orange
Intermediate - light blue
Supersoft - red
Soft – yellow
Medium – white
Hard – silver

Like the idea of being able to see who's on wets clearer and also the diffrence between soft med and hard rather than just the harder compound and the softer one.

It's "colorful" but not really any more functional.

Well, it is in a way. Colouring the writing in this manner means that the colour coding should always be visible on the sidewall (in exactly the way it wasn't way way back when it was a dot, before they started painting the groove) and using bright colours with strong contrasts from black make the marking more apparent than the idiotically-chosen green of recent years. Seriously, had I met the person who said "let's not use white despite the fact it'd make it far easier to see, let's use green to make a superficial entirely too abstract statement about environmentalism!", I would have punched them in the mouth.

It's F1 someone paid 10 million to sponsor that green stripe.

[Jensonb]

It's F1 someone paid 10 million to sponsor that green stripe.

Unfortunately, that trope was subverted in this case. There was literally no reason for it to be green other than Bridgestone's (A rubber and tyre colossus) decision to implicitly support environmentalism. In the world's number one Motorsport.

Which unfortunately leads us to another trope altogether.

[bud]

Silver and white are too close together from a distance you wont be able to tell them apart.

[Hammer278]

Silver and white are too close together from a distance you wont be able to tell them apart.

Same thoughts here, you'd think a tyremaker giant would've considered this petty, yet significant issue.

[spankyham]

Silver and white are too close together from a distance you wont be able to tell them apart.

Same thoughts here, you'd think a tyremaker giant would've considered this petty, yet significant issue.

I think their logic might be that the rules currently say that there has to be a gap between compounds, so you won't see Silver and White at the same track. They might also think that by keeping them close (in terms of color) you will always easily identify the Prime tyre.

[Hammer278]

Silver and white are too close together from a distance you wont be able to tell them apart.

Same thoughts here, you'd think a tyremaker giant would've considered this petty, yet significant issue.

I think their logic might be that the rules currently say that there has to be a gap between compounds, so you won't see Silver and White at the same track. They might also think that by keeping them close (in terms of color) you will always easily identify the Prime tyre.

Ah! Makes perfect sense then. My apologies to Pirelli.

So this means you're having only one of these compounds to pair with the options at every track correct?