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Many drivers, experts, pundits and teams – and particularly world champions Red Bull – have been strong in their criticism of the ‘show’-oriented formula created by heavily degrading control tyres.<\/p>\nAmid all the noise and criticism surrounding Pirelli’s approach to formula one, the Italian marque has won the backing of Bernie Ecclestone.<\/p>\n
Many drivers, experts, pundits and teams – and particularly world champions Red Bull – have been strong in their criticism of the ‘show’-oriented formula created by heavily degrading control tyres.<\/p>\n
“If the tyres lasted from January to December,” F1 chief executive Ecclestone told Reuters, “there’d be something else to talk about.<\/p>\n
“What is good about this (situation) is that it really comes back a little bit to what it used to be when the guys had to look after their brakes and gearboxes and things like that,” he added.<\/p>\n
However, the tyres wearing out quickly is arguably not even the major issue.<\/p>\n
The biggest problem is that the teams and engineers do not understand how to make the tyres work.<\/p>\n
Red Bull complained loudly at the opening rounds in 2013, but then Sebastian Vettel utterly dominated in Bahrain.<\/p>\n
“We had been really worried, but in the end it was actually quite easy,” Dr Helmut Marko told Kleine Zeitung newspaper.<\/p>\n
But on the sister car driven by Mark Webber – who “had to fight in the middle of the pack” – the tyres “just fell apart”, Marko explained.<\/p>\n
It was a similar story for Nico Rosberg, whose Mercedes gripped perfectly to pole in Bahrain before the high temperatures on Sunday left him fumbling backwards through the field.<\/p>\n
“We know the much cooler (temperatures in) Europe will be good for us,” teammate Lewis Hamilton told German news agency DPA.<\/p>\n
Agreed team boss Ross Brawn: “The tyres are the same for everyone, but under these (hot) conditions we are just not as good as our competitors.”<\/p>\n
But it’s not even as simple as getting clear air, or finding temperatures that suit the car-tyre combination.<\/p>\n
“I think these tyres are very complex,” Red Bull team boss Christian Horner told British Sky.<\/p>\n
“When you’re in the window … then you can have a dominant display like we had (in Bahrain).<\/p>\n
“But that window is very, very fine and if you’re outside of it then you can be four or five-stopping.”<\/p>\n
Alex Wurz, a former F1 driver, doubts Red Bull really understands why it suddenly leapt into apparent dominance last weekend.<\/p>\n
“If they do know, then they will be extremely strong until the end of the season,” he is quoted by motorline.cc.<\/p>\n
“But sometimes it just happens and you don’t know why.\u00a0 It’s a science no one really understands.”<\/p>\n
Red Bull’s Webber agrees: “The tyres dictate everything.\u00a0 If you are not in the right working window, the laptimes fall into the basement.<\/p>\n
“We’ve seen Lotus able to do two stop strategies, while Jenson Button has had to come in four times, even though he’s known as a ‘tyre whisperer’,” the Australian said on Servus TV.<\/p>\n
“We are still in a learning process.”<\/p>\n
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