The F1 2014 season

Lame. Pretty much confirms that the Quantum deal is completely dead, not that we didn't know it already. I expect Grosjean to destroy him next year and with any luck that will be the end of Pastor in F1.
 
More changes to tyre\pitstop rules incoming?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111657

Detailed tweaks to the regulations, which will have a dramatic impact on strategy and spectacle, have been tabled for discussion at next month's F1 Strategy Group meeting. The rules, if accepted and then agreed by the F1 Commission and FIA's World Motor Sport Council, will demand that each driver must stop twice during the race to fit new tires.

Furthermore, drivers will not be allowed to use the 'prime' specification of tires for more than 50 percent of the race distance, while the option compound will not be allowed to be used for more than 30 percent of the race distance.
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Indy500 said:
Furthermore, drivers will not be allowed to use the 'prime' specification of tires for more than 50 percent of the race distance, while the option compound will not be allowed to be used for more than 30 percent of the race distance.
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Er.... something does not add up here...
 
Tweaker said:
Apparently PDR is not an easy man to work with, talking to someone who used to work there, he didn't care for the team as much as Sutil did.
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TBH I could see that in him for some reason. Somebody who causes problems for the sake of it. I dont know just the way he comes across in interviews etc a bit arrogant and negative to the team.
 
Regy53 said:
TBH I could see that in him for some reason.
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Because he's a sulky bugger who screams at his team down the public team radio in official sessions. He's an OK driver, and a good driver in other series, but he's not as good as his points total over Sutil this year suggests. They're much of a muchness - average meets average in an average team.
 
Indy500 said:
Perhaps they're referring to individual sets of tyres? :confused:
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Must do, looking at those figures.

Seems bizzarely restrictive. Assuming that everyone starts on option following the retarded qualifying rule, that basically forces everyone onto the same strategy. 25% option, 25% option, 50% prime.

However, it does impose a limit on stints that is not tyre wear related. Assuming the primes and options will all sail through the 50% or 30% limit being driven balls to the wall then we could see the return of flat out stints? It effectively brings back refueling without bringing back refueling.
 
MooMoo444 said:
How are lap times likely to be affected with the smaller engines? I'm not really clued up on the technical side so for all I know it'll be no different.
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They will have similar power to this years, but very different driving characteristics. With the aero changes too I expect the FIA are looking for an overall reduction in lap times, but I wouldn't expect it to be too significant.
 
Skeeter said:
However, it does impose a limit on stints that is not tyre wear related. Assuming the primes and options will all sail through the 50% or 30% limit being driven balls to the wall then we could see the return of flat out stints?
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Unlikely. Even with the few races with rock-hard tyres this season, we've seen drivers dropping back into clean air. We may see it early in the season, but later on when teams have optimised their cars, I expect that in a close field, teams will still find more advantage in saving the best grip until the tyres are about to be disposed of.

Until we have a tyre that is designed to give better grip as it wears or we have a tyre that stays very neutral as it wears, cars will still lose the best of their tyre performance following another car.

If you strapped the old Bridgestones to a 2013 car, I'm confident you'd still see teams telling drivers to drop back 1.5-3 seconds behind another car if they can't overtake.

Let's say that the 2014 tyres lose 10% of life and/or grip in the turbulent air for a few laps and the 2013 tyres lost 20-30%, then 10% is still a large chunk in F1 percentage terms. The margins are so fine now - if they aren't running enough fuel to run the race flat out, then they aren't going to run the most critical aspects of the cars flat out either.
 
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Pirelli have already said they are building super durable tyres next year that the teams felt would makes all races easily 1 stop.
 
Oh well I saw this coming.
He's pretty poor but it's his attitude that is the problem

Everytime I had about next season I look forward to it less
The tyre thing is just more artificialness


May as well use a scalextric track
 
al4x said:
Oh well I saw this coming.
He's pretty poor but it's his attitude that is the problem

Everytime I had about next season I look forward to it less
The tyre thing is just more artificialness


May as well use a scalextric track
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The beer is strong tonight. :p
 
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