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    Use any two of three compounds available, making one compound required defeats the purpose.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVA164 View Post
    Also, is cost the main reason teams can't choose from any tire compound each race? That would open up a lot more potential strategies I think. Just make a rule that two compounds at least two "steps" apart must be used, or something like that.
    Doubt it's cost. The tires are probably one of the cheapest parts expense that the teams have.

    That said, I do think it's a fairly significant cost for the tire manufacturer. I'd suggest ditching the rules and letting teams sign their own contracts with whichever supplier they wanted, but it can't be horribly efficient to re-tool a factory to produce tires for a single racing series, let alone a single team within that series.

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    Yeah, it's not really cost, it's more logistics. Pirelli need to know how many to manufacture and ship to each event. That's why teams needed to specify tire choices so early.

    They decided to go single tire supplier after the indy GP fiasco. To be honest I'd rather that tires did not dictate an F1 championship. Imagine a 3rd rate car beating a 1st rate car because they chose dunlops instead of goodyear.

    Pirelli has done a good job - especially considering what the FIA requested of them.

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