RamSteelwood wrote:i was thinking about the tyre compounds yesterday (what an exciting life i must lead). Part of the problem is they bring these super fast but fragile tyres, with the idea they'll belt around and need more stops...but drivers just trundle around knowing it's better to eek out more life from the tyre, and make the fragile tyre last long enough for a one stop switch to harder tyres.
maybe they could tweak the rule around stops so that if you do 2 stops, you can have free tyre choice and not have to mix compounds. so it opens the option of say going hyper-hyper-hyper in a race, versus others going hyper-soft.
so in singapore, vettel for instance could have pushed harder on his second stint going after max (actually with another set of hypers he may have took the lead), knowing that he would need to pit again later, but would be able to go hyper again, giving him the benefit of attacking with fresh fast tyres to offset the extra stop.
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