Sebastian Vettel tyres had endured until the end in Monaco

Almost two weeks ago we saw one of the late most disputed in recent times in formula one. Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button were virtually a mini train in the streets of the Principality of Monaco. The three had options to victory if he fails to be by the safety car had to go out in the final moments of the test.
The director of Pirelli Motorsport, Paul Hembery, has indicated that Sebastian Vettel had endured with their tires up to the end unless the safety car out in the final laps of the Monaco Grand Prix. As evidenced by analyses that have been carried out following the Monaco event data.

Monaco was a fantastic race, three drivers fighting for victory using three completely different strategies. From these data we can see that the tyres of Sebastian had endured until the end if it had continued driving in the same way as up the red flag. This means that any completed 62 laps, equivalent to more than 200 kilometres, with the soft compound.

Paul Hembery also boasts the speed of your product:

Benefits of tyres were shown with him that marked the return of more rapid in the history of Monaco classification, another one of our records.

Good first occur to me the following records that have beaten: record of more stops in a Grand Prix, record of tyres from further degradation and record of more complaints from drivers about the tires. If outside Paul Hembery proud would not be of certain records. What advertising are doing to the brand. It seems as if they said:

Look, we have the tires less lasting in the history of formula one and we are very proud of that.

That is advertising the good and the rest is nonsense.

Analysis post GP of Monaco 2011: strategies, tyres and rhythms

Looking back on the registration form of the pitstops of every team that facilitates Pirelli in your Facebook profile, and in view of the times recorded in each pilot's back to back, is only now that we're going to give an account of how the race was analyzing the numerical changes of tires reality (number of laps) and rhythm by pilot (according to the back to back).
Clearly analyze this to 24 pilots is absurd by long that would be, so let's do so basically for the three pilots of head. The first thing I do notice is that the first three pilots of the race made three different strategies and came to shoot many laps in less than a second. It is not possible unless we are speaking of beings from another world, and is actually thanks to the magic of Pirelli.

I would like to look at one thing, besides the fact that the tables are huge. Look at the first, the tyres fitted to each stint: Jenson Button was played respond so in my opinion, riding superblandos used to attack with a set of soft new at the end of the race. They would be 30 laps with tires with a superior performance, in theory!. The red flag destroyed the English strategy that mounted soft new (would have no more games of superblandos conditions). I still think that Button had the best strategy of all and even during the round which left the red flag was more likely than anyone else win (because expected likely mistakes by fainting of rubber bands).
Also in the back to back we see it. I have highlighted in bold the most relevant career parts for me. During the first stint, the first three equality is notorious, but the most revealing fact of what did Vettel finally is that in the first stint with superblandas used, its tires desfallecian. Later he did incredible thing with that amount of laps on the new soft placed by mistake.
The part marked in bold shows the speed and pace of Jenson Button, superior to its rivals. In addition a little earlier we saw how the early entrance of Button did Vettel to enter on the next lap, and Alonso did likewise to highlight to Vettel. It is amazing to see these tables. In that stretch Button was first followed by Vettel and Alonso. It was working a gap of more than 12 seconds.
After the Safety Car, order returns to Vettel, Button and Alonso (who seemed to have already lost the second position but stood nearby), and when Button decides to bring forward the pitstop to give the final hack to Vettel. The red flag annulled this brilliant strategy, in my opinion, but is in reality neither Vettel and Alonso would enter more! Here are the tables of tyres and the back to back, simply a carreron of the first three, no doubt.

Grand Prix of Turkey F1 2011: Jaime Alguersuari sufe by tyres and sixteenth

Jaime Alguersuari has been victim today tyres and his enormous degradation, it has not been passed the sixteenth position. The Catalan pilot has had a difficult race, with tires that have been demoted in the last stint. That has meant that Alguersuari had been forced to make a last stop in boxes two laps from the end.
Jaime he had kept, as did Alonso, a game of soft, in official training tire, in order to use it in career, and be able to gain. In fact, during the time that he has used these tyres, he has shot well and fast, but in the end things have not gone as the pilot of Toro Rosso hoped.
The worst thing about this situation, for him, it is that Sebastien Buemi has made a career of book, with a virtually copied strategy to the Alguersuari, and leaving only a position ahead. The Swiss was seventh up to few laps from the flag to pictures. In the end, ninth position for Buemi, who tells Jaime that makes him very happy.

Interestingly, the result of Sebastien Buemi, 9th leaving sixteenth, beside me, great joy me and shows me that the strategy of the team has been good for me both Seb, and that we are increasingly closer understanding the behavior of the Pirelli tyres. To me I missed only five laps to have achieved the objective of the team.

Leaving part everything about the world of formula one, its results, and their expectations for the future, Jaime Alguersuari has wanted to take a short moment of remembrance and tribute to the golfer Severiano Ballesteros. "seve" left us Saturday morning, and Jaime has wanted to keep in mind, sending a hug to his family.

Pirelli wants that the teams should have more tyres to water games

After the significant rainfall in the early hours of the day today in the Grand Prize of Turkey teams have been found in a difficult situation. With an eye on the sky, if the rain persisted the teams would have problems in management of wheel already that each driver has only three sets of tyres for extreme rainfall (and four sets of intermediate tyres) to use for all the Grand Prize.
With a small amount of games, available tires and plenty of water equipment options pass to stay in the box during the session of free practice to have new games during the race or try and pray for no rain on Sunday.
Why the director of the program of competition of Pirelli, Paul Hembery, has shown its concern faced with this situation and would like to discuss with the teams the possibility of varying the distribution of the tyres during the Grands Prix. At least vary the amount of tyres of rain that have teams.

Grand Prix of Malaysia F1 2011: Pirelli recommends not to abuse the extreme rain tyres

Many expect rain at any stage of the proof of this Sunday in the Grand Prize of Malaysia. Towards that point the prediction of the time for the race, although it wouldn't be the first (nor the last) that it fails. To err on the safe, Pirelli has released a notice to computers, he recommended not that her play with the tire for rain extreme if there is little water in the layout.
The Italian automaker warns it is best to change to intermediate as the track is drying. The alleged motive is none other than the degradation suffered by the compound of extreme rain when he is forced to roll with little water on the asphalt.
The director of Pirelli Motorsport, Paul Hembery, has warned that it is not a good idea to move directly from the extreme rain tires to the slicks:

I do not think that they can jump of rain tires to slicks, because wet gums are for lots of rain and do not work well on tracks which are drying, by what would suffer "blistering" (blisters in the rubber) very fast. Not want to be on a dry track with the rain.

It is curious that this warning to sailors just after after the private test Pirelli took place last week in Istanbul Park, with Pedro de la Rosa at the controls of the Toyota TF109. In them the rain did present two of the three days. In view of the events, it will be Hembery right or is a ordago to increase pit stops? It should not be forgotten that in Australia the endurance of the compounds was surprised friends and strangers...

Michelin will change the compound of their tyres to reduce the number of pins

The four puncture of Petter Solberg during the day on Friday of the Rally of Portugal indicated that he was not going well. Michelin has looked this year by a very fast tyre, which makes that even these new World Rally Cars are rolling faster than last year, but very soft in his case and that therefore has less resistance in the face of the puncture.
That is why Michelin has decided to spend a wild, by agreement the FIA only allows a change of substance, to prepare a new with the goal of having less puncture. However the controversy comes when apparently the French factory will not spend this unique opportunity that it has received a "special" adoption by the International Federation to have a chance during the year.
Somewhat surprising that we must not forget that this year the free choice of tyres has faced Michelin DMack and expected that brands change compounds with a view to the Rally of Wales, with a very sliding road. In this way the FIA again placed on the side of one of the two manufacturers with such partial vision to which we are accustomed.

Summary of regulatory news from the formula one: tyres

Tyres shall be the particular Achilles heel of cars in some phases of the races. Excessive wear with Pirelli compounds will cause that the management of these is an issue of vital importance to the aspirations of the pilots. This year it has all the earmarks that they will provide some sauce to racing, and some it will be worse than others, that is taken for granted.
There are not many new features that we say, but some that should not be ignored to be aware of the events during races. The number of games that the pilots will have available and their use will have to make them is probably the most important paragraph of the regulation as regards tyres.
The pilots will have a total of 11 games of tyres of dry for the weekend. In some large awards an additional game can be supplied to be used only on Friday. The door open is also left to them to test experimental compounds to help in the evolution of the compounds.
-1 set of prime returned before the free 2.
-1 set of prime and 1 set of option returned before the free 3.
-tyres 8 games, 4 of each compound, supplied for the rest of the weekend.
-1 set of prime and 1 set of option returned before the classification.
-Drivers arriving in the Q3 must start the race with tires that were used in his fastest lap.
-They have to use both compounds of dry during the race, unless it has been used rain tires.
-Not mounted both compounds of dry shall be punished by exclusion from the race.
In all the great prizes will be available four sets of intermediate and other 3 games of extreme rainfall.
If for any reason the race is suspended and does not become to restart, a new rule indicates that the pilot who has not used both compounds of dry will be penalized with 30 seconds. A rule that does not apply frequently, but is there and may have catastrophic consequences on occasion. You never know what can happen in a Grand Prix.
A compound is considered that it has been used when the transponder of the single-seater indicate that it has emerged from the pitlane. If not that composite not computed as used, with the consequences that this involves. In this way I can imagine that it will attempt to avoid the possible pilleria of completing the whole of the race with a specification, and on the last lap making the mandatory change, crossing the finish line by the pitlane.
With this article it is closed the series concerning the regulatory developments of this year in formula one.

An extra set of tyres for the teams in the Grand Prize of Australia

The absence of the last test of the season in the Sakhir circuit left Pirelli without the opportunity to test their tires in extremes of temperatures. A problem both for the Italian manufacturer and for the teams that could reach some Grands Prix without too much information on how they will behave gums.
For this reason, the FIA adopted earlier this month a new rule that it allowed Pirelli to deliver a set of tyres extra to each team in some great prizes. This will happen in the first Grand Prix of the year in Australia. Eleven games in each Grand Prize are given to the teams added one extra, that Albert park is the compound "Prime", the hard. In this way Pirelli, will have the opportunity to test the development of new compounds.
That Yes, the extra set of tyres can only be used during the two sessions on Friday. When completion of the free, practice the game must be handed over to the FIA. It will not be the only one that the teams must also submit a game from the main compound and the option.

My pre-season F1 2011: question of tyres

Few sensations there are more stimulants that hear a formula 1 engine break almost Deathly morning silence of a circuit at 8 am. And that feeling takes emotional reunion dyes when it's the preseason. It is that they are so many months waiting to return to "feel" the single-seater in the asfalto…
Although the pre-season lately are so intense technical and analytical, to the roar of the first car that leaps to track merge with the of the last thing you'll see another before packages start their journey towards the Antipodes. Nevertheless, we must try to draw some conclusion of apparently to try to guess what remains to be seen. Let's do this, then.
In this preseason have enjoyed playing in the "see who is the leaks". Every year there is a new technical focus that concentrates the objectives of all photographers, and this year won the leaks, I would say that by far. Unexpected, on the other hand, as it seemed that most intrigued when all cars rested still under the canvas would be who are aiming to pull-rod of Red Bull, and either stayed behind the curiosity to see back in action the KERS, or by viewing once and for all the behaviour of the mobile wings (DRS, in terms "fia").
But, even exciting, not to be lost with so little final relevance detallismos, when we are dealing with a season in which change the determinants of the final performance of any single-seater: the tires. That's the big change this year, and that is going to be the final key which will decide the title. Without a doubt.

If the other day he was talking about David Plaza, magazine Grand Prix Actual, of engines as simple "diffusers blowers", I dare to follow the game and define cars in its entirety as "optimization of tyres". The limit of all single-seat it precisely marked their tires, and the entire design, both mechanical and aerodynamic, has to try to get them the maximum possible performance for the maximum possible time. That will go further in this endeavour, is all to take the jackpot.
It is no secret that at this point in the film, the great concern of the majority of teams is precisely the rapid wear and tear with the Pirelli tires, and it seems that they will be forced to that Grand Prix could not settle with less than 2 or 3 pit stops. It is not surprising as see how the mechanics tested up to 15 pit stops followed one after the other so perfectly in the choreography would result in a valuoso time in the Cronus cut.
But make no mistake: wear, in what regards the tyre itself, is circumstantial, and identical for all (in regards to tire, I insist). The technical key-wide tires believe that it will be precisely to know understand them and interpret its evolution. The worst of a tyre is that it is not predictable. We must try to translate the signals will give the tire to predict their behaviour, and, above all, know what needs to be done in each of the specific situations arising from wear or the consistency of the tires. It must learn the language of the new tires, and listen to them carefully during all this offseason. It will be the only possible way so that when they try to talk, you will understand.
What can it bring wear on the tires, associated with a greater number of stops, and the important differences of time per lap as they are wearing (in addition to the own differences between different compounds), is a strategic challenge that a long time ago is not seen in formula 1. The latest symbolic references of aggressive strategies have in, above all, the victory of Schumacher at Magny Cours in 2004 with 4 stops in boxes, or the most recent strategy 3 stops of Lewis Hamilton in Turkey in 2008 to finish second.

Focusing on Magny Cours, the French track was the only calendar that had a peculiar feature which afforded it its particular asphalt: the negative effect on the wear on the tires lap times was higher than the positive effect of the lower fuel load, and therefore you could run, in the right hands, more aggressive strategies. This effect which was only happening in Magny Cours, comes this year intrinsically linked to the new Pirelli, and is therefore expected that the best minds in the paddock may surprise us once in a while, and of course - this does not change - when touch whatever improvisethat might be more often.
I had to speak of the offseason, and I've spent almost all of the paragraphs speaking of tyres. But I think give the importance they deserve. On the performance of each team, must be borne in mind that I can only speak of totally subjective sensations that leave you cars to see them go through different types of curves, but devoid of any expert judgement by the almost total lack of information on what exactly are looking at every moment. For this reason, and emulating the little information is available for the correct assessment, I would just like to give a Word-by-team to define what I think of his State.
Red Bull: fear; Ferrari: progress; McLaren: lost; Mercedes: am intrigued; Renault: correct; Williams: evolution; Toro Rosso: surprising; Sauber: inconsistent; Force India: continuity; Lotus: improved; Virgin: slow; Hispania: absent (although with hopeful inputs).
We turn to read after Australia. Although Australia is not the proper place to draw too many conclusions, that digamos…

Jarno Trulli, critical of the Pirelli tyres

Jarno Trulli has been quite critical of the Pirelli tires and not hide his disappointment regarding this topic. In fact, the Italian pilot arrives to say that the development agenda was not well and that the tires are missing something, and they are not balanced correctly.

Jarno has been very clear in his opinion about formula 1 tyres. According to him, tires should, first and foremost, to adapt to the circuits from best way and wear should be a secondary theme, unlike what seem to be the Pirelli. To be able to vote this post you must login or register here.

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Trulli puts his finger in the wound when he speaks of the KERS, asking, in a rhetorical manner if it really is as exciting as it seeks to make the FIA. In addition, defends changing regulations is not good for the sport and only confuses the audience, who wants to understand what is happening on the track.

But former Toyota driver has also had a "nice" words for the Italian Federation of Motorsports and Ferrari. He explains that he already knows who should thank his career and is not the Italian Federation. Ferrari has said that they have never given enough support to Italian pilots.

Tyres Pirelli release much rubber that will not help the overtaking

Following the preseason in Jerez circuit trainings Paul Di Resta has complained about the large amount of rubber that ensue Pirelli tires, which leads to form rubber track marbles. And that would not be significant if all the drivers were always on the same lane. Gum accumulates to the drawn ideal for what Paul Di Resta has warned that the rubber can be a problem in advance.

The Scottish says that after several overtaking, again drawn ideal tyres were filled with rubber that is not cleaned easily, while recognizing that this "problem" will depend on each circuit and as the rubber will go adhering to it.