Hi all, great race today, for the wrong reasons but was good to watch. We saw a variety of punctures today and almost everyone thinks it's down to Pirelli's tyres. Of course no one can say anything now. We are thankful that no one was seriously injured.
We know that Pirelli wanted to introduce safer tyres but this was blocked by some teams who believe it would hamper they advantage they had. I appreciate that this is a competitive sport and people shouldn't have to give up any advantages they have but this is a safety issue and teams need to be reasonable going forward.
One wonders if there was a fatality or a serious injury today, how would the teams that blocked this feel? I hope a valuable lesson has been learnt today and we can move on from this.
Please, safer tyres for everyone, the last thing we need is something horrible to happen. So Force India, Lotus, Ferrari et al. Please, for the safety of your competitors and yourselves as you could be involved in an incident yourselves like Alonso and Kimi today, stop preventing the adoption of new safer tyres. I appreciate you will lose your advantage to the other teams but it's a small price to pay for safer racing.
Thank you
What if?
posted on 30/6/13
Yes indeed Man U, these tyres are a joke. Perille are only doing what was asked of them but all the same, this is scary.
posted on 30/6/13
Kimi and Alonso narrowly escaped serious injury today. Let's hope reasonable heads prevail and something is done
posted on 30/6/13
Could be argued the kerbs at the track today were unsafe not the tyres
posted on 30/6/13
Wasn't the kerbs mate, they were still going over them during the course of the race and in the GP2 race, there were no such incidents.
posted on 30/6/13
Anderson was pointing out a raised sharp edge on the kerb at turn 4 two tyres at least popped going over
posted on 30/6/13
"Could be argued the kerbs at the track today were unsafe not the tyres"
Yes it could, if you were desperate. The kerbs have not been a problem for the years this Silverstone layout has been in use but they were today in the effwun race.
Hamilton was blunt, to-the-point, totally honest and rather forceful when interviewed after the race by Lee.
The most interesting part for me was when she asked him, "Will you be talking to the FIA, Pirelli, the Teams?"
"No", he said, I can't remember verbatim but it was to the effect of, "They never listen anyway".
OK, Pirelli have designed fast degrading tyres because, we are told, the FIA requested it.
There are severel issues in that alone,
tyres could be made to degrade via a number of ways, tyre compound, tyre surface, tyre temperature, tyre construction, you could name a few reasons.
Plainly Pirelli have chosen the wrong way.
The FIA do not alllow the teams to decide what tyres they want for each event, that is simply wrong.
The teams understand their cars, they would still all have the same 4 compounds to choose from, why shouldn't they choose?
The FIA is far too, "Control-Freak". It must adopt a more conciliatory approach to all the parties concerned in running and maintaining its precious little goose that lays golden eggs.
The National Socialists didn't win the war and a more democratic modus operandi is a very much needed from the first class travelling, 5 star hotel staying, honourable members of that tarnished organisation.
Also because it was tyre failure and the fault of tyres does not make it Pirelli's fault at all, as Hamilton observed in his reference to the Barcelona test that the FIA got all uppity about and ended with with a bill for one third of the costs.
Another consideration.....
With dynamic Risk Assessment, as the frequency of failures rose and the possibility of a fatality did not diminish, quite honestly, the race should have been stopped.
Shock, Horror, yeah, yeah.
The fact is lives were needlessly put at risk today for reasons that are not obvious.
Despite what I have written, I certainly do not blame Pirelli, I do not blame the FIA, nor do I blame Silverstone.
This a problem that simply should never have occured and I suggest the joint parties responsible for this mess get off their ego-boxes and start earning their money.
It will make a nice change.
Reading this back I can blame somebody, it is plainly all the fault of Lewis Hamilton.