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**NofFoomiTot** · 06-22-2010, 07:32 PM

As I've said before (and will no doubt be boring and repeat this many more times) my ideal F1 tyre rules do not mandate a set number of stops, but offer tyres of sufficient difference that a hard can do an entire race if driven carefully and a super soft that can only manage a handful but is massively faster and let the drivers choose to go long and smooth or flat out and pit 2 or 3 times to make the distance.

Easier said than done though. There would be a very fine balance point where the soft and hard tyres are comparable over a race distance. If the tyre manufacturer didn't hit it perfectly, then all the teams' simulations would tell them which one was faster and everyone would end up on the same strategy. Which I guess was why the FIA felt they needed to force the teams to use both tyres.

I wonder if a better idea might be to only have super-softs that last 15-25 laps. Then you might get some variation between teams that can make it with 2 or 3 stops while others need 4.

06-22-2010, 07:32 PM	#10
NofFoomiTot Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 429 Senior Member	As I've said before (and will no doubt be boring and repeat this many more times) my ideal F1 tyre rules do not mandate a set number of stops, but offer tyres of sufficient difference that a hard can do an entire race if driven carefully and a super soft that can only manage a handful but is massively faster and let the drivers choose to go long and smooth or flat out and pit 2 or 3 times to make the distance. Easier said than done though. There would be a very fine balance point where the soft and hard tyres are comparable over a race distance. If the tyre manufacturer didn't hit it perfectly, then all the teams' simulations would tell them which one was faster and everyone would end up on the same strategy. Which I guess was why the FIA felt they needed to force the teams to use both tyres. I wonder if a better idea might be to only have super-softs that last 15-25 laps. Then you might get some variation between teams that can make it with 2 or 3 stops while others need 4.
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