Pirelli will not be changing the tyres for the remainder of the current season – Formula 1 news
Pirelli will not be making any changes to their tyres for the remainder of the year.
The tyre company have revealed that they do not want to have a significant impact on the outcome of the title race and hence are not going to make any changes to their compounds for the rest of the season.
The season started with a high level of competitiveness and times were hard to separate apart in terms of performance, the tyres played an important role as not every driver was comfortable with the Pirelli tyres. The tyre strategies had to be right for
the particular circuits and weather conditions as well and not all teams were able to make the right choices.
This has left a bitter taste in the mouths of many teams and drivers, including Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher, who have been impacted the most admittedly in the season because of the Pirelli compounds.
The season has seen eight different winners so far in the season which is a world record of the sport. There is still no clear favourite of the season such has been the unpredictability of the season.
Pirelli made a change to its hard compound and they have tested out an experimental hard compound during the practice in Germany this year. Pirelli realise the nature of the situation and have decided to still to the current compounds and constructions for
the remainder of the season.
“We could have done some changes mid-season this year, but having a season with teams so close together we felt that any changes we made could backfire because maybe one team would find that the change would be better suited to them and may give them an
advantage, so we couldn't do that this year,” Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery told ESPNF1. “Going forward we have a couple of areas we want to improve.”
“In terms of structure and compound choices we're undecided [for 2013],” Hembery added. “We need to understand how much of a challenge the teams would like because we have to bear in mind that they will go straight into 2014 with a very rapid change in regulations.”
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