DiogoBrand wrote:...Is pirelli actually capable of making rubber that won't disintegrate after five laps?
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It should be obvious, but... apparently not without testing! The purpose of this test was exactly to find this point where the tire falls off the cliff in 10 laps without disintegrating in the first 5. And they get a grand total of 12 hours to do that in which all material has to be brought to the track ahead of collecting any data on any of it and without info or control on the exact performance of the testing vehicle(s). This is totally counter to the logical way of testing that is: test a bit, find trends, change the hardware to follow those trends, test another bit, find the next trend.
I'd cut (pun intended) Pirelly some slack, specially during their only test session of the (next) year.
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