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Originally Posted by Taxi645
I wanted to share an idea on reintroducing tyre competition to F1 and see how you guys feel.
In the past we had tyre competition, but it had some drawbacks, mainly:
1 The top teams of each brand were able to optimize their cars for their brand of tyre and therefore created a performance gap to the other teams which in light of the desire for a close field was far from ideal.
2 If one tyre manufacturer is superior, half the field is screwed.
Now what if they would allow tyre competition but instead of splitting the field between tyre manufacturers they split the races between tyre manufacturers? So all teams run the two brands of tyres alternating between races.
In my view this has a couple of advantages:
1 You don’t have tops teams specializing as much because they have to run both brands of tyre.
2 Half the field is not screwed if one brand is weaker, because over the year everyone has to run the same tyres eventually.
3 You do have a competition between tyres manufacturers because the drivers will be very vocal about their tyre preferences and the differences will also be clearly be visible to the press and tech savvy viewers.
4 The races will become more unpredictable because the tyre brand switch up each weekend.
5 The total cost for each manufacturer is lower.
You could also choose to run all teams on a single brand during a single GP weekend or split the field and then alternate for the next. Both approaches would have different consequences with pro’s and con’s.
What do you guys reckon?
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This is an interesting idea and could, I suppose, shake things up a little, but I don't think it would make the differences that it used to.
Back in the day when there were competing tyre companies don't forget that there was also unlimited testing. This then allowed (for example) Ferrari to wind round & round Fiorano no doubt with Bridgestone engineers also in attendance fine-tuning the car to the tyres, and vice-versa.
Now that testing is strictly limited this can't of course happen, and so some random teams may 'drop lucky' and find that their car just happens to work amazingly better on one make of tyre, but there won't be the endless fine-tuning opportunities.