Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery insists they don’t want tyre wars – Formula 1 news
Pirelli's motorsport director, Paul Hembery has said that the constructor may not continue in Formula 1 if they are not the only supplier of tyres.
The Italian tyre company became the sole tyre supplier to the sport during the preceding season after Bridgestone and Michelin. However, they have received too much criticism over their tyre compound while the game has been deemed as a lottery in which the
ultimate rivalry of the manufacturers has emerged.
On the other hand, Hembery has said that they only work for the sport as a whole and it is up to F1 to make the decision about what it intend to do.
Furthermore, he said that they are not here to decide about anything while he said that they will wait to see whether there is any alteration in the regulations. In addition, he said that if the rules change in the future, they will surely consider the amendments.
Besides, he said that at present no contender has any kind of inclination towards the tyre war.
“We work for the sport. The sport has to decide what it wants,” said Hembery. “If it wants tyre war and procession racing again, like it did in early 2000s, when the audience disappeared, than that's one approach. It's not for us to decide. We will wait
and see if rules change. If they change, then we will consider it. At the moment the teams are certainly not interested in tyre war.”
Additionally, he said that there is no point in having a battle of tyre because there is no evidence that if a team performs well, it has got the better tyres. He also said that it is useless to spend such a huge amount of money just to get a minute improvement
in the performance which the audience can’t see and eventually they don’t realize.
“Nobody knew, because all the money was being spent on trying to find performance that public couldn't see. And if public can't see it, we don't understand it,” he added.
Over and above, the tyre management has played an important role in the season so far and it will be interesting to see what difference it makes in the forthcoming races.
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