http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111915Jonnycraig wrote: And we don't know what caused it to fail. For all we know, it was punctured exciting the final corner. But still, carry on .
It's not that the tire failed, it's the circumstances around the failure. they gave a tire that's never been on track to a "customer" and then let them run it up to full speed. I'm Very familiar with product development and empirical research. The tires should have gone through lab tests, then through a series of increasingly more severe in house track test using Pirelli's test car. Only after that should they have been handed over to the customer for testing.Joie de vivre wrote:I don't know why people complain about tire failure. You are aware that they are TESTING it, right? That is the purpose of test!
Get yourself together! Yes it is a tire test. A test to see how the tires perform!! Not to see if they suddenly blows up at over 300 km/h or not.!! Those things can be tested in machines at their test facility.Joie de vivre wrote:I don't know why people complain about tire failure. You are aware that they are TESTING it, right? That is the purpose of test!
If you read the link I posted above you will see they only tested that specific model in the lab, the first time it actually saw a track was when it was on Rosbergs car.......Owen.C93 wrote:Yes I'm sure they just threw together some rubber and didn't do any testing in the factory...
how do you guarantee the safety of a prototype ?Gridlock wrote:So it's OK for F1's tyre manufacturer not to be able to guarantee the safety of every tyre they ask a driver to run?
Got it.
Sorry, but on-vehicle tire tests are supposed to be about evaluating and comparing tyre construction and compounds under race conditions to select the best tyre for the application. On-vehicle tests SHOULD NOT be about evaluating whether a given tire will catastrophically FAIL in race conditions.astracrazy wrote:we need to get off this pirelli bandwagon
while the tyre failure is a concern i think its important everyone remembers that it was a prototype and realise that isn't just restricted to the tyres
the f1 cars themselves are prototypes and are designed and tested in factories and no one will know the true outcome until the car hits the tracks. Its really not that much different. Parts have failed on cars in the past
motorsport is dangerous....
Well, I can't remember a single catastrophic failures like that with Bridgestones. Even when they developed a puncture the tyre failure was sort of gradual. There's something particular about tyre construction of Pirellis which make them fail at once.kalinka wrote:So Rosberg's tyre was probably tested before at lab, but failed due to some manufacturing error, or it could really be some debris on track. We don't know yet nothing about the cause of the incident didn't we? I hate these tyres and hate the way Pirelli handles the situation, but we have to be more realistic IMO.
