{"id":19437,"date":"2013-10-01T07:04:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19437"},"modified":"2013-10-01T07:04:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:04:34","slug":"pirelli-to-be-very-conservative-for-2014-hembery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-to-be-very-conservative-for-2014-hembery\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli to be ‘very conservative’ for 2014 – Hembery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The days where grands prix are spiced-up by deliberately heavily-degrading tyres could be over.<\/p>\n

\"Paul-Hembery-1\"Since the tyre-exploding crisis earlier this season, and the mid-year shift from steel to kevlar-belted tyres, Pirelli has also been taking more conservative compound choices to the races.<\/p>\n

Very recently, it has culminated in less exiting grands prix, and runaway championship leader Sebastian Vettel’s now tight grip on the second half of the season.<\/p>\n

And for 2014, despite the radical engine rules shift, little will change on the tyre front.<\/p>\n

“We will take a very conservative strategy,” Pirelli boss Paul Hembery told Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n

“We will take the worst-case simulation as the basis for the development of the tyre structure.”<\/p>\n

Hembery argues Pirelli has been pushed in that direction by the teams, who are not overly willing to help with tyre development for 2014.<\/p>\n

Indeed, even the attempt to test with a representative car – Mercedes’ current W04 – ended spectacularly badly for both the German team and F1’s tyre supplier.<\/p>\n

Now, Pirelli is having to conduct 1000 kilometre tests with two-year old cars, such as the one with Red Bull in Barcelona recently.<\/p>\n

“It went well, as far as we can tell,” said Hembery.\u00a0 “The car is three seconds faster than our Lotus test car.<\/p>\n

“But we are still expecting a journey into the unknown with the new 2014 cars.”<\/p>\n

Even a post-race test in Brazil after the 2013 season finale has now been cancelled.<\/p>\n

“It (the tyre development situation) is because of the paranoia of the teams,” said Hembery.<\/p>\n

“What we need in order to do our job, unfortunately doesn’t fit with what the teams want.\u00a0 And nobody is coming up with a solution.”<\/p>\n

There is also uncertainty about Pirelli’s longer-term future in F1.<\/p>\n

The FIA has finally rubber-stamped the marque’s presence on the grid beyond 2013, but a statement said that is just a “transition period” because Bernie Ecclestone and the teams had already agreed deals with Pirelli.<\/p>\n

“Pirelli has five year agreements signed with Ecclestone and the teams and expects that these are respected,” said La Gazzetta dello Sport’s Andrea Cremonesi.<\/p>\n

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The days where grands prix are spiced-up by deliberately heavily-degrading tyres could be over. Since the tyre-exploding crisis earlier this season, and the mid-year shift from steel to kevlar-belted tyres, Pirelli has also been taking more conservative compound choices to the races. Very recently, it has culminated in less exiting grands prix, and runaway championship …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,5262,5300,5340,1797,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19438,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions\/19438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}