Pirelli doing a "Michael tire!"

it wont matter because schumacer has lost it a long time ago.
brawn presented facts in terms of telemtry data but of course it's BS..

i think he will be a force to reckon with if the car is up to the job.
can't wait the season to start. the last years have been amazing imo.

 

Won't make a difference imo. Hamilton and Alonso have the same driving style and coped with the Bridgestone slicks fine. MS used to be able to do the same.

 

I hope they degrade to bits for some action.

 

do you want to make things more interesting?
how about a friendly bet?

 

That's simply not true..

Alonso has a very different fundamental style to Schumi, almost the complete opposite in fact. Alonso sets his car up to under-steer (possibly more then any other driver in the grid - go looks at some onboard footage from 2005 - 06).

Hamilton is said too prefer have a neutral car balance.

Massa and Kimi have a similar set-up preference to Schumi, although Schumi prefers the cars front end to pivot more around at the apex.

 

You're in luck, that's exactly what's going to happen:

http://www.speedweek.ch/Formel1/news/17383/Pirelli-geht-auf-Risiko.html

Synopsis:
- Much softer compounds this year
- Expect races with 2 to 3 pit stops
- Risky in the sense that tire failure could cause accidents
- Super softs will be super sticky and have a super short life span

As for the OP:
I'm not in the least worried. If the Pirelli really comes MS way (which Brawn denied), he'll still have to beat the 5 top guns. Something he wasn't able to do 6 years ago, let alone now.

 

Good stuff. Not that I'am hoping for dangerous, but drivers earning there wages.

 

I just hope MS proves himself to whoever's writing him off this year.

 

Pirelli says that it will supply a total of 50,000 F1 tyres this season. These will be produced in a special unit of Pirelli’s Izmit factory in Turkey. Each team will have its own Pirelli engineer and there will be a crew of 50 Pirelli staff at each event. The team will be based at the company’s Centro Ricerca e Sviluppo in Milan, Italy.

The company says that it will adopt a much more aggressive approach than its predecessor Bridgestone, using softer tyre compounds so that tyre wear is more of an issue for the teams. In an effort to help the spectators know what is going on the aim is to use colour coding on the tyres, with the “Pirelli P Zero” lettering on the sidewall of the tyres being in different colours for the different compounds. The latest reports suggest that super-soft tyres will be red; soft white; medium blue and hard yellow. In wet conditions the full wets will be yellow and the intermediates red. The only confusion likely will be in drying conditions when drivers switch from wet to dry tyres.

 

Just keep talkin naysayers. The best drivers in the world are not writing Schu off.

 

is it me or is the color scheme between dry's, inter's and and wet's rather illogical???

 

SuperSoft: Red
Soft: White
Medium: Blue
Hard: Yellow

Intermediates: Red
Full Wets: Yellow

Yea i think this could cause some confusion for some people. For me it´s pretty easy.
Wet tarmac, red or yellow.

Dry (depending on what tyres Pirelli bring) Red, Blue or White, Yellow if they decide to use tyres with a bigger gap to improve the show.

 

No Ian, I only worry when he has Goodyears and a reinforced nose cone....
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Yea same here, I cant wait for next season. I have really gotten back into F1 now that i can record all the races, im still on the fence as to who my fav is.

 

What?

 

Maybe he's saying about the 2005 BS tyres...

 

Out of curiosity, does the stupid rule forcing the drivers to use 2 different compounds still around this year?

 

I have no idea m8. I´m going with that until Pirelli says otherwise

 

You got it.

BTW: This has been the longest stretch ever in MS' F1 career of races without a victory. And I'm not counting the 3 years of his retirement, but solely by number of races run. So the positive way to look at this (for his supporters) would be: If it has been that long, he is about due to win another race.

 

Actually a 4 time WDC is:

http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/6699969/Schumacher-Return-To-Form-Impossible-

 

I read that today, but Prost also said not two weeks ago that if anyone could do it, Michael could.

 

Every time I read the thread title, I think to myself, "Pirelli are making a flat tire?"

 

Yeah I thought Michael tyres would be the ones that have reinforced sidewalls and can tolerate impact.

He was the best of the former generation, I wonder what the excuse will be in 10 months time.