Pirelli will move to reinject excitement into formula one for 2012.<\/p>\n
Earlier this season, the high spectacle of the grands prix was attributed to the new supplier’s highly-degrading tyres, with Pirelli adopting a deliberately different approach than its predecessor Bridgestone.<\/p>\n
Auto Motor und Sport reports that Pirelli aims to confound the engineers and strategists yet again in 2012 by supplying even softer tyres.<\/p>\n
“We can see now that the number of pitstops has been coming down,” said motor sport director Paul Hembery.<\/p>\n
“The drivers are dealing better with the tyres, the engineers are finding better setups, the learning about the tyres is going on.<\/p>\n
“We must try to give these guys some tough nuts to crack yet again,” he announced.<\/p>\n
Hembery said the new ‘hard’ tyre for 2012, for instance, is almost as soft as the current ‘medium’.<\/p>\n
And in Friday practice in Abu Dhabi, the teams tried a new 2012-spec soft tyre.<\/p>\n
“Something like that could be the medium tyre next year,” said Hembery, adding that Pirelli is therefore working on even softer compounds.<\/p>\n
And he said that meeting those challenges would be easier if the teams help Pirelli come up with a new way to test the tyres.<\/p>\n
“The old (2009) Toyota is already in the museum,” he revealed.\u00a0 “We have asked the teams to find a solution as at the moment we don’t have one.<\/p>\n
“These cars are constantly evolving and we need to keep pace with them somehow.”<\/p>\n
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