News Details

Pirelli boss defends tyres after Canadian GP criticism

After a Canadian Grand Prix in which tyres were the order of the day, Pirelli boss Paul Hembery has spoken out about both the 2015 compounds' race pace and Nico Rosberg's qualifying incident in which the German was informed by the Mercedes pitwall that he had received a bad set of supersofts. 'We've not seen the performance improvements anticipated at the start of the year, and which were suggested in winter testing and Melbourne,' Hembery said. 'If we wanted to be self-critical we are finding this year wear and degradation levels are improved over last year, and the cars are maximising the tyres for a far greater number of laps.' That maximisation emerged in Canada from supersoft and soft...
Full Story »
11y ago from FormulaSpy.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Vettel hit with grid penalty for FP3 incident

Sebastian Vettel had been given a five-place grid penalty for overtaking...
11y ago from RichlandF1.com

Grosjean admits incident was his fault

Romain Grosjean had to settle for a point in Sunday's Canadian Grand...
11y ago from PlanetF1.com

Mercedes cagey on tyre analysis techniques

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff remained mum about the puzzling radio call...
11y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Wolff hails 'faultless' Mercedes performance

– Mercedes boss Toto Wolff hailed a faultless performance from his...
11y ago from GPUpdate.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Scott McLaughlin: IndyCar has ‘incredible'...

Scott McLaughlin started racing in the NTT IndyCar Series in 2021, coming...
13h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal hold talks with Real Madrid star's...

Arsenal have reportedly held talks with the representatives of Real Madrid...
8h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Sources: Arsenal's list of attacking transfer targets...

The future of one Real Madrid star is making major headlines again, so...
7h ago from CaughtOffside.com

If Mikel Arteta’s dossier is part of a deliberate...

manager is not yet in Alex Ferguson and José Mourinho’s league, but...
7h ago from TheGuardian.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.