Frankly, I'm suprised that Bernie hasn't attempted this little compromise to acheive a control tire AND keep multiple tire manufacturers in F1: Contract a tire company to produce 'brandless' tires for F1, and then sell the tire branding for each team seperately, and bring in a
-ton of money for himself (or for the teams if there was any justice in the world...
)
Personally, I would rather see multiple tire manufacturers battling it out, the more the merrier. Why not have as many tire companies as engine manufacturers? Or even as many as we have constructors? The key to the whole thing is the 'formula' (rules). Right now, tires are pretty open... the grooves and geometries have max/min values, but there is no control of compounds. Maybe that could be equated to engine rules specifying a number of cylinders and a displacement, but not limiting the materials or the induction system??? Anyway, the FIA could impose rules on compounds (nigh on impossible, though) or rules like # of sets in a weekend (sounds familiar) or even minimum durometer reading and seriously retard the ever-escalating tech war in tyres...
