What color are the tires for this weekend? Are the yellow P-Zeros still options?
EDIT: turns out its red. How annoying.
EDIT EDIT: They are now saying that the yellow is still soft, what happened to the one compound gap precedent from Bridgestone that Pirelli said they were going to follow.
Its really annoying. The way it was on the Bridgestones was so much simpler. As it is today it is really hard to determine who is on what. Back in the day it was so much easier to see a band of constant coulour, rather than a smearing of yellow/red/grey mixed in with black, which just becomes a blur.
This years tyre colour system is just stupid in my opinion, especially when they keep changing them. The white lines on the Brigdestones where the best.
This years tyre colour system is just stupid in my opinion, especially when they keep changing them. The white lines on the Brigdestones where the best.
Alonso is looking very strong, Mass is looking very lairy! Obviously you can't read to much in to practice times but RB didn't seem to be on the pace as much as the others.
Definitely but if I'm not mistaken, they would only bring a combination of either Soft and Medium, Soft and Hard or Soft and Super-Soft right? If so then there shouldn't be any confusion...
At least the two will never appear at the same event - there has to be a clear compound gap between the tyres.
The problem with each tyre having its own colour is that as we've seen over the last couple of races Yellow could be the soft compound at one race and the hard compound at the next.
Lets have the green (or maybe yellow for Pirelli) stripes back on softest + inters!
At least the two will never appear at the same event - there has to be a clear compound gap between the tyres.
The problem with each tyre having its own colour is that as we've seen over the last couple of races Yellow could be the soft compound at one race and the hard compound at the next.
Lets have the green (or maybe yellow for Pirelli) stripes back on softest + inters!
But there are softs and super softs at this event? This was the reason for my confusion in the first place, as everyone seemed to be going around on options in the first free practice, which I thought was strange because they only come out in FP2.
But there are softs and super softs at this event? This was the reason for my confusion in the first place, as everyone seemed to be going around on options in the first free practice, which I thought was strange because they only come out in FP2.
With the Pirelli tyres the colour code is always the same for each compound. They make four dry compounds; Hard (Silver), Medium (White), Soft (Yellow) and Super Soft (Red).
Pirelli choose two dry compounds for each race. For Turkey they chose Silver + Yellow (Hard + Soft). For Monaco they've chosen Yellow + Red (Soft + Super Soft).
Bridgestone did exactly the same thing but without the colour codes. Instead they just put a green stripe around the shoulders of the softer compound tyres at each race, they also added a green stripe around the center of intermediate tyres. This was a much better system because you didn't need to know which specific compounds Bridgestone had chosen for each race!
Earlier in the thread I said that there had to be a clear compound gap between the tyres - it now seems from the Monaco choice that this rule didn't make it through the proposal stage... my bad! This potentially means that we COULD indeed see Silver + White at a race...
Here is hoping for Rosberg to get his first victory in F1 and I guess it will be extra special for him as he grew up there. He more than deserves to and this could be one of the few tracks he has a chance on this year if he can get it on the front row of the grid.
I will be happy as long as it is someone else than Vettel winning, so the championship could still remain interesting. However it looks like he has a very high chance of winning. The RB7 looked the least on the edge while setting a fast lap judging by the TV coverage of FP1 and FP2 so I wouldn't be suprised if both the Red Bull drivers lock out the front row of the grid. Going by this quote he seems to have a lot in hand and he did quite a fast lap in FP2 as well.
Sebastian Vettel
I think the super soft is definitely the faster one, even though we did not focus on running a fast lap in the afternoon session.
However all the pace in the world might not matter if traffic and mistakes hinder any of the front runners in qualifying. Q3 engine modes could put Ferrari out of play but they seem to so far look very strong.
Fisichella is the man! 
