Pirelli to stop using hard tire for rest of season

[Pupik]

They're looking for ways to encourage drivers to set lap times. They've expressed dissatisfaction with teams at the tail end of the top ten electing not to run in qualifying in order to save tyres for the race. Qualifying tyres would remove that because drivers would not be forced to start on the tyres they set their best lap time on. Which has always been an unpopular rule..

I get the idea that if we had qualifying tires, you'd then get some drivers that would conserve and work on their race-strategy instead, due to all the mileage limitations on actual testing, shorter practices/qualifying session(s). Obviously, not at the sharp end, but say, 8-10th.

It seems to be very wasteful, because right now, even your three slowest teams aren't going to get magically faster, unless others use race tires instead. Outside of Q1, I don't see that happening.

And then, we'll hear complaints of the artificial changes to the racing, again.

Historically, no tire supplier used qualifying tires once they were the sole resource for all the teams. As soon as there was a "tire war", they'd return.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I get the idea that if we had qualifying tires, you'd then get some drivers that would conserve and work on their race-strategy instead, due to all the mileage limitations on actual testing, shorter practices/qualifying session(s). Obviously, not at the sharp end, but say, 8-10th.

But the Powers That Be are considering bringing testing back in 2012.

It seems to be very wasteful, because right now, even your three slowest teams aren't going to get magically faster, unless others use race tires instead. Outside of Q1, I don't see that happening.

No, they're not - but they're going to be fighting one another for position. And since the introduction of qualifying tyres would see the start-on-the-tyres-you-qualified-with rule get dropped, everyone would be free to run different strategies from the start of the race.