vas_04614 wrote:Haas's steiner on tyre struggles
"Absolutely. I think I can just speak for us.
"I look at other teams trying to do different things and you guys have seen what Force India did. It is the main objective – to get the tyre to work and then be prepared for the race that you know what will happen so you don't have graining or the pressure blowing up."
Was curious about force india did?
When I read that quote I got the impression that it was not any single magic thing that FI did, but rather the way the team focuses resources on the tyre, because of the following sentence about the main objective. This could be at the track and away from the track; for example instead of testing tiny things like monkey seats and whether 3 VG or 4 VG is better, perhaps they spend all practice getting their understanding of the tyres as best as they can - and this helps you in the race. Which is probably less money than Mercedes spend on understanding tyres, but for a small team like FI it might be a larger percentage of time and money than normal. Indeed in that same interview Steiner mentioned that the Haas team have almost no specialist tyre team.