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I'm glad they've approved in season testing, it's obviously needed. I also like what Adrian Newey said about how this likely could have been avoided had Lotus, Force India, and Ferrari agreed to allow the tyres to be changed earlier this season.
The kevlar tires won't be ready for Germany, but I agree that a boycott is unlikely. Silverstone was a difficult situation. I think had one of the teams retired the others would have followed suit but I remember Will Buxton stating that many of the teams were searching for Paul Hembery during the race but couldn't find him. I think most of them wanted to consult him before pulling their cars off track and it sounds like he didn't want to face the music at the time. (Not that I can't blame him.)
Some interesting things got overshadowed by the tire situation on the race Sunday. Kimi Raikkonen has broken Michael Schumacher's record of scoring points in the most consecutive races (Silverstone was his 25th race consecutively scoring points). It seems like Kimi is a driver most everyone likes and I think it's impressive but also speaks of his skill as a driver that he's accomplished this. A big part of me wants to see him in the RB car next year. But... that's two top tier drivers on a team and who knows how well that will go.
Its all part of creating racing by tires not suited to going fast for long to slow the fastest down. they are limiting the fastest to make slower competitive by managing the tire wear to slower speed overall.
Watched the practice today and quite a lot was tyre talk.
A bit confused, but it seems like last years tyres are being used for this race and from hungary will be new tyres. Kevlar belts (2012) with this years compounds.
Pirelli also seem to be laying blame at the teams for the tyre failure. Said the tyres are right/left side specific and should not be rotated which the teams have been doing. I guess the teams have also not been following the pressures and camber guidelines.
The teams did fire back about the rotation though and said, while being aware of this, Pirelli did give the OK.
Mclaren also came out and said they were following all guidelines and still had two failures.
Seems like the Kevlar belt made it better for Lotus and Sauber, while Mercedes, Toro Rosso and Force India took a beating.
Happy for Grosjean, badly needed great drive from him. Kimi was also mega. Had Lotus asked Grosjean to let him by two laps earlier, we would have had a different winner.
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Seems like the Kevlar belt made it better for Lotus and Sauber, while Mercedes, Toro Rosso and Force India took a beating.
Happy for Grosjean, badly needed great drive from him. Kimi was also mega. Had Lotus asked Grosjean to let him by two laps earlier, we would have had a different winner.
Ya never know, I'd bet that Red Bull would've been getting mighty wide at that point.
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