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"This week’s two-day test is all about the 2019 Pirelli tyres, which as of next season will be called compounds 1, 2 and 3 instead of their compound names."

"But for this week’s test the teams will have five compounds available, this year called the hard, medium, soft, ultrasoft and hypersoft."

Words fail me....stupid Pirelli
 
Why? That's exactly what's happening next year...? There will be a total of 5 compounds of tyre with three available at each race, and instead of their compound names they'll be given numbers to avoid all this super/hyper/mega/ultra soft nonsense.
 
Spunkey said:
Why? That's exactly what's happening next year...? There will be a total of 5 compounds of tyre with three available at each race, and instead of their compound names they'll be given numbers to avoid all this super/hyper/mega/ultra soft nonsense.
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Think about sky f1 trying to explain that at every race and every pit stop :(
Plus what the tire was called before it got it's 2018 name.....

It's going to be a nightmare
 
I actually think it will be quite simple. It will be as complex as the media decide to make it, if they continually unpick what actual compounds are sitting behind 1, 2 and 3 every race.
 
deuse said:
Think about sky f1 trying to explain that at every race and every pit stop :(
Plus what the tire was called before it got it's 2018 name.....

It's going to be a nightmare
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They won't need to.
The point is there will be only 3 compounds all season at all the races, hard, medium and soft. The actual chemical make up of the tyres will vary depending on the track but the viewers will only see the same 3 tyre colours each time. That's much simpler for people to understand.
 
The change will be much better.
You might hear teams moan about the allocation by Pirelli that weekend, but that happens now anyway.

MotoGP have utilised this system for a while and it works perfectly well.
 
vanpeebles said:
That is also silly as the same named tyre will do different things at each race.
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It won't though?
The hard will be the most durable but slowest, the soft the least durable but quickest, and the medium a compromise - regardless of that the actual compounds are

It removes the need to have 7 colours (+wets) with the pink/purples looking too similar, and for the casual viewer removes the ambiguity as to what "order" super soft/ultra soft/hyper soft actually are.
 
vanpeebles said:
They will still have to explain that the soft used here, is different from the soft used last time, because the make up is different, yet they are called the same.
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Will it matter that much though? They'll just say the allocation from one weekend to the next is softer/harder due to the track surface. Once the weekend is underway saying soft/medium/hard will be much simpler for newcomers to the sport.

It's far better than commentators saying "X driver has pitted from his hyper-softs and now has super-softs which aren't providing much grip, perhaps he should have gone for the ultra-softs". Anyone trying to get into the sport would be :confused::confused::confused:
 
vanpeebles said:
They will still have to explain that the soft used here, is different from the soft used last time, because the make up is different, yet they are called the same.
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Why would they? It's of no relevance to 99% of people. A cursory mention maybe that tyre compounds vary due to individual circuit demands but nothing more is needed.
 
vanpeebles said:
They will still have to explain that the soft used here, is different from the soft used last time, because the make up is different, yet they are called the same.
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Anyone who cares about this will know the difference in the compounds. For most people hard/medium/soft is more than enough to understand the different performance in the tyres on race day.
 
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