Jenson Button is confident about new tyres for the 2013 F1 season – Formula 1 news
McLaren’s Jenson Button has stated that the new Pirelli tyres for the new F1 season will work better than the ones used during 2012 and that will be helpful for him.
“One thing that's very different with the tyre is how it works with warm-up,” Button said. “That's something we've struggled with and a lot of the teams have struggled with this year - actually getting the tyre into its working range. I think some teams
have been there or above the working range, but it's difficult to stay in the working range. This tyre, I think, has got a much wider working range and that's going to make it much easier to get the tyre working from the start of the season.”
Button told that the team was continuously troubled by tyre problems this past season and were always working on the car to adjust around the tyres when they should have been developing it like other teams. He added that as a result their progress was diminished
but that will not be the case with the new tyres. He said that the new tyres were directional and will work well.
Pirelli’s motorsport director, Paul Hembery, had announced about introducing the new tyres ahead of the season ending Brazilian Grand Prix and had provided prototypes in the Friday practice session for the benefit of the teams.
Hembery had told that the new tyres will have different compounds and construction as compared to the old ones. Like Button, he also said that the tyres will provide a wider working range to the teams. Hembery added that the tyres will certainly change the
aerodynamics of the cars and will deflect more; especially the rear tyre.
The motorsport director had told that they were still calling the tyres prototypes because they were still figuring out how to relate all the different compounds.
Besides the tyre problems, McLaren has also been the victim of reliability issues this season which was always getting in the way of their progress. Even though McLaren lost its second position in the constructors’ championship to Ferrari, they did perform
strongly at the end and won the last two races.
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