“Alpha Tauri’s Daniil Kvyat spun into the tire barriers at high speed after his right rear tire exploded with no warning.”

But the teams drove the tires longer than Pirelli said they would last. The were driven outside the specification.

And all that is beyond the fact that teams refused to use the 2020 tires.

It’s not a safety issue if the teams choose to use the tire improperly.

Those who pitted under the first safety car knew they were…

Neat.

I love racing, I hate putting people in danger for entertainment.

It seems like they should be able to design a tire that would completely lose grip before it has the kind of catastrophic failure we saw on sunday.

I don’t agree with you on this.

Yes, Pirelli is wrong.

This take is patently... wrong.

Shamlessly stolen/reposted from Matthew Somerfield’s twitter.

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Why not have an ultra durable but not sticky base layer on every tire? When the sticky layer is gone, you better pit for a new set because your lap time will be terrible. But the tires won’t fail.

I don’t care if they have a tight performance envelope that loses several seconds per lap. I care that the tires are built to such a shitty standard of quality that they blow up or wear to 100 percent in under 150 miles. 

Okay, so is Pirelli wrong, then? “Some chords are visible on the tire”

RBR didn’t throw away a victory, they went with their preset plan of pitting late for the fastest lap. No one knew Lewis’s tire was going to blow with less than a whole lap left.

I recall one exasperated tire company rep saying in an interview some years back, “they’ve asked us to build a shit tire, we’ve built them a shit tire.”

Nowhere was Pirelli’s intentionally half-assed F1 tire construction shown its ass more than at this weekend’s British Grand Prix.

That’s precisely the point of this article. 

Pirelli, build a tire that doesn’t blow up in 40 laps, and make it snappy.

Pirelli should make a tire that just randomly explodes at some point. Maybe 3 laps. Maybe 30. That's about all that would spice up this season. Fun to see RBR throw away an easy W for no reason at all. 50 laps of ridiculous boredom followed by 2 of excitement does not an exciting F1 race make. And yeah, it happened…

They aren’t being petty, there is a chance the Tracing Point is illegal. Tracing Point is REQUIRED by the rules to design and build the brake ducts themselves or get them from a non competing supplier. They can copy Merc as long as it’s just looking at pics and designing their own version. If those brake ducts are…

My favorite, bar none, next issue after 9/11 - “Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell”.

Holy shit, dude. The Obama motorcade story should have been picked up. That’s classic Onion.