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[Ferrari man 009]

To be fair, CookinFlat - the same people complained when we had indestructible Bridgestones that you could drive at 100% for the full race and only use 1 set of tyres (Vettel at Monza that year was an example - did 52/53 laps on the "Softer" tyres, only pitting because he had to).

For me, Spain was one of the more interesting races. Only because you had Kimi preserving tyres to do 3 stops vs Alonso pushing 100% for a 4 stop. Ferrari knew it would be 50/50 between a 3 and a 4, so said lets just push as hard as possible and make it work.

Personally if I was in charge, i'd bring back the indestructible tyres and use the money saved from needing less tyres to bring refuelling back. That with DRS overtaking would make strategies far more exciting in my opinion (plus it would make tyre stops safer ).

[Roth]

Then people bitch it's three short races, and around and round we go...

[CookinFlat6]

Yeah I guess thats the only thing the paying audience have control over - exactly what to bitch about at any one time

Having said that, we want to see the fastest drivers in sprints, and we want to see clever drivers manage their equipment and think strategically on the fly, and we want to see a bit of team work, fast pitstops, then we want pretty grid girls, some even want grid boys, and then we want to see the best driver win, but not by too much, we want him to have to earn it each time, but not too often as we might get sick of his mug on the podium, and we want to know about his life off track, but not too much about the dog or gf

and what do we get?

a kick in the teeth

[Roth]

If a young Paul Weller had been into motor racing he'd have summed it up perfectly.

[Jabberwocky]

"22 Dreams" dashed every year by a german boy

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[racechick]

German? Newey is British isn't he.
On the tyres....I'm not against drivers using their skills to manage them. I'm against them being unable to use their skills because the tyres are unfit for purpose. There's a difference.

[What's Burning?]

"22 Dreams" dashed every year by a german boy

I think you mean 23 or 21 of late.

[Jabberwocky]

Paul Weller never released an album called 23 dreams though

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[Denthúl]

Pirelli has warned it will be ultra-conservative to deliver one-stop races next year unless the teams and the FIA tell it to do otherwise.

Pirelli chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera (pictured left) met with Bernie Ecclestone in Abu Dhabi to make it clear that if Formula 1 wants to avoid taking away tyre strategy intrigue in 2014 then it would need to impose a mandatory two-stop requirement into the regulations.

The company is frustrated that it has spent the last three years following a request to deliver multiple stop races while facing ongoing criticism from some teams and drivers.

Pirelli has lost patience with complaints that it thinks are unjustified, and says it will now do only what it is explicitly required by the regulations rather than what has been requested privately.

Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery said: "We just want to be told what to do.

"We want a clear input and it clearly defined, because the characteristic [of criticism] this year is that people have maybe forgotten what we were asked to do.

"That has got lost somewhere in the passage of time, and that is the important thing that we want to make sure is resolved. Somebody needs to tell us what they want to do."

Teams are reluctant to support a move for mandatory two-stop races, because of fears that drivers will all stop on the same lap.

When asked what would happen if the teams, the FIA and Ecclestone did not impose any specific requirement in the rules, Hembery said: "I guess what will happen is that we will take a very cautious approach and we will end up with one stop [races] after this year.

"We have seen a few things that have made us think that we need to take a step back, and we would end up with a one-stop, which is maybe not what the sport wants.

"But somebody needs to tell us what the input is."

This is frustrating. Imposing a mandatory two-stop strategy is not something I want to see (I don't even believe that we should be seeing teams having to run both compounds throughout a weekend) and it would likely kill what's left of my interest in modern F1, but on the other hand I really can't blame Pirelli because they're in a very awkward situation. The FIA and FOM need to ditch their demands for tyres that degrade quickly and look at solving the root cause of any lack of excitement within the sport instead of trying to patch it up with gimmicks such as tyre rules and DRS.

[What's Burning?]

Bring three compounds and have them use whatever they want, some teams may be able to go a full race distance with a hard compound, others may go three stops with the softest compound, let them have at it. When will they understand it's the stupid regulations that cause the homogenized races they're trying to put band aids on?

[Jabberwocky]

How about getting the teams to pic 2 types of tyre each race. The teams don't know what anyone else has asked for until they roll them out on track?

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[spankyham]

What ever they do, don't change the rules halfway through the season

Bring back refueling but with a focus on safety even if it slows down the pit-stop. Limit the fuel the cars can carry to ensure 1 or 2 stops. Pirelli should supply tires that drivers can push to the max on for the full stint.

[NHcheese]

Different four tyres of the same type of tyre eash race, so there is not more graining on one of the four tyres due to track layout. Oh, and a pit of 180 tyres, drivers at the same time go in and take whichever they fancy, some may end up with 3 soft and 1 wet.

[What's Burning?]

What ever they do, don't change the rules halfway through the season

Bring back refueling but with a focus on safety even if it slows down the pit-stop. Limit the fuel the cars can carry to ensure 1 or 2 stops. Pirelli should supply tires that drivers can push to the max on for the full stint.

Between a fuel stop and a mix of tires that they can use whichever and for as long as they want to, there would be a at least a handful different strategies in play each race. Plus it wouldn't penalize a driver like the Hulk for being three or four kilos heavier than the rest.

[sagi58]

...Pirelli has lost patience with complaints that it thinks are unjustified, and says it will now do only what it is explicitly required by the regulations rather than what has been requested privately...

What the h.e.l.l. does that mean?? Why aren't they already doing what is "explicitly required"??
Why are they even entertaining anything "requested privately"??