Pirelli boss Paul Hembery is expecting a much faster field of 2015.<\/p>\n
Last year, among the criticisms of F1’s all-new turbo V6 format was that laptimes took a slide in comparison to the popular and screaming V8s of the past.<\/p>\n
And Pirelli, F1’s official tyre supplier, took some of the blame.<\/p>\n
“Some teams thought we were too cautious in 2014,” Hembery is quoted by Spain’s El Mundo Deportivo.<\/p>\n
“But it’s easy to say that in hindsight.\u00a0 We had no real data, and now we have a lot.”<\/p>\n
The Briton, however, said Pirelli is not needing to make many changes to the tyres for 2015.<\/p>\n
That is because every indication so far is that the field of 2015 will be considerably quicker in 2015, a year into the radical new rules.<\/p>\n
“We expect a significant leap in terms of performance,” said Hembery, “because the engines have developed and will be more powerful.<\/p>\n
“But above all the teams now have a year of experience with the new technologies,” he added.<\/p>\n
The Spanish report mentioned a laptime leap from 2014 to 2015 in the order of two or three seconds, but Hembery was not willing to make a more detailed prediction.<\/p>\n
“From our point of view,” he said, “it will not be until China for the third race before we can get a real feel for what has improved.”<\/p>\n
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