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Originally Posted by johntt
We're not going to get away from spec tyres but I have my idea of how things should be.
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Don't we all.
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Originally Posted by johntt
Drivers would have two types of tyre available to them over the weekend, Qualifying and Race tyres.
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Pirelli did suggest the use of qualifying tyres, but the teams said no.
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Originally Posted by johntt
Race tyres would be hard tyres designed to last for the entire race and slightly longer.
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The problem with having tyres that do that is that, over a full race distance, one car will be far superior to another because it uses that particular tyre better at that particular circuit.
It would also be difficult to make one tyre that lasts "for the entire race and slightly longer" for every car on the grid. Would you make the tyre last for the car that wears out its tyres faster than some other cars? How could you possibly know ahead of time how long lasting to make that tyre? Would you also use the same tyre at Monaco that you also used at Monza?
It could be good because there would be different winners for each and every race. But you may also have teams complaining that the race tyre, or the qualifying tyre, suits one particular car more than it suits some others. At the moment the teams can choose between two tyres that will suit most teams on the grid for either qualifying, or the race. This at least allows for some form of strategy with regard to tyre use.