actually..the more testing they do will only benefit the teams tied to it if the competitor tyre supplier does less testing...if they are all using the same tyre it will more or less level the field a bit..Slipknot Fanatic said:It does make a difference. As you can see some of the new Bridgestone shod teams are still doing lots of tyre testing. This will give an advantage to Ferrari though because of their long-term partnership. Heard Flavio telling the FIA to tell Bridgestone to redesign the tyres to give a level playing field.
the only advantage i can think of is that... the existing teams running on bridgestones have more or less some experience which can help them tune their car to match the tyres charecteristics...BlackSamurai said:the reason behind behind to limit the tyre supplier in F1 to single supplier is to end the tyre war. What currently happen on the grid is by picking up the "better" tyre supplier (Michelin for the last 2 years), you have immediate advantage. Engine, chassis, aero dynamic and etc becomes secondary.
of course the blind spot of single tyre supplier is that, some team might be the typre supplier "preferred" team to work with (for example, Ferrari and Bridgestone), which give other team disadvantages, and worst still the tyre supplier may able to control the race result by building the tyre which suite the "preferred" partner more.
The single tyre supplier will not solve the problem entirely, FIA shall comes with more straight rules, like test data sharing (tyre related) among team, band "preferred" partner status (officially) and most important for current Michelin runner, develop fair rules for current Michelin runner to adopt Bridgstone tyre.
yeah... Bridgestone would be ultra grateful to Ferrari for sticking with then when almost everyone else just went to the competitor...Slipknot Fanatic said:Well Flavio always come out with stupid ideas. I think given the close ties between Ferrari and Bridgestone don't think they would want to share data with the other teams. What ever data Bridgestone gets from the other teams they would surely share it with Ferrari. Look at last season seven teams had their tyres supplied by Michelin compared to Bridgestone with only three. Now Williams and Toyota are trying to develop close ties with Bridgestone.
Even if the FIA were to come up with rules like that, there are always other ways for Bridgestone to share the data of other teams with Ferrari. Ferrari has always stood up for Bridgestone no matter what.BlackSamurai said:the reason behind behind to limit the tyre supplier in F1 to single supplier is to end the tyre war. What currently happen on the grid is by picking up the "better" tyre supplier (Michelin for the last 2 years), you have immediate advantage. Engine, chassis, aero dynamic and etc becomes secondary.
of course the blind spot of single tyre supplier is that, some team might be the typre supplier "preferred" team to work with (for example, Ferrari and Bridgestone), which give other team disadvantages, and worst still the tyre supplier may able to control the race result by building the tyre which suite the "preferred" partner more.
The single tyre supplier will not solve the problem entirely, FIA shall comes with more straight rules, like test data sharing (tyre related) among team, band "preferred" partner status (officially) and most important for current Michelin runner, develop fair rules for current Michelin runner to adopt Bridgstone tyre.