Flynn

4y

I am convinced 100% at this point that Pirelli has a manufacturing issue that they're covering up.

Between the tires blowing up last week, to this week Max being able to go 3 times as many laps without blistering on the same tires as Lewis and Valterri, to Ricciardo having his mediums react completely differently in both stints

The tires are f***ed

Flynn

4y

It wouldn't be the first time Pirelli had issues with the tires, and it won't be the last.

It's not laughable to think they have an issue

Especially with covid probably impacting their manufacturing

kttmz

4y

It's blatant bullshit, since its a combination of multiple factors where the circruit is one of them. Journalist Mark Hughes of Motor Sport worded it pretty well after the grand prix of last week:

"Silverstone places enormous demands on the tyres of a modern F1 car, the left-front in particular. Long-duration, high-speed corners, several of them literally flat-out in these cars with downforce levels that smother even the 1,000 horsepower hybrids, make it the highest-energy track of all for the tyres.

...

The Mercedes has the most downforce of all, the Red Bull has plenty of it (albeit in a narrow range of conditions that make it still tricky), the McLaren certainly has more than the Renault. So it probably makes sense that these were the cars that found the problem first."

And Lewis his commentary during the race of today was even more hilarious saying "He must have less pressure in his tyres or something".

Flynn

4y

What's hilarious about Lewis saying they might have less pressure? We don't know what PSI the Mercs were running at, they may have been running higher pressure after their blowouts last week.

And none of it explains how Danny Ricc's new mediums did far worse than his used mediums from his first stint.

And yeah Silverstone is hard on front lefts always, but they're still supposed to gradually go off, not fall off a cliff like Lewis's did last week.

kttmz

4y

It's hilarious because he said it during the race when he wasn't able to compete with Verstappen. It implies Red Bull lowered the pressure below the minimum standards which shows a bad loser. I also think the weather had impact but the following days will reveal what impacted these tires the most. Every team and especially Mercedes will go to the bottom of this. But a manufacturing problem from Pirelli seems highly unlikable to me.

kttmz

4y

It's hilarious because he said it during the race when he wasn't able to compete with Verstappen. It implies Red Bull lowered the pressure below the minimum standards which shows a bad loser. I also think the weather had impact but the following days will reveal what impacted these tires the most. Every team and especially Mercedes will go to the bottom of this. But a manufacturing problem from Pirelli seems highly unlikable to me.

Flynn

4y

I am convinced 100% at this point that Pirelli has a manufacturing issue that they're covering up.

Between the tires blowing up last week, to this week Max being able to go 3 times as many laps without blistering on the same tires as Lewis and Valterri, to Ricciardo having his mediums react completely differently in both stints

The tires are f***ed

Trash Star

4y

Lewis explained that Merc's tires were at a much higher pressure, he said they were basically balloons. So he was saying RB's tire pressure was lower than Merc's. He wasn't saying that RB was cheating.

Skip to 18:30

Didier

4y

I still can‘t get my head around what Ferrari were doing with Seb‘s tire strategy.

Bunch of sad losers

kttmz

4y

Really sad to see Seb going out like that