Sunday, June 16, 2013
Lotus displeased with Pirelli's conservative tyre choice
Lotus F1 unhappy with Pirelli's tyre choice for next three races, they claims that its too conservative tyre options.
Last Friday Pirelli confirms the British, German and Hungarian Grands Prix tyre choice, British GP will battle with this season special hard and medium compounds and also Hungary will run with the same zompound, German Grand Prix will fight the medium and soft in action.
Lotus Trackside Operations Director Alan Permane says that Pirelli’s selection are too conservative.
"It's unusual to take the same tyres to Hungary as to Bahrain and Silverstone," Alan Permane told BBC Sport.
"We didn't have those tyres last year. We had medium and soft last year and people did two stops. So it absolutely doesn't make sense - they're too hard for that track."
"They went softer to try to encourage more pit stops. There's no point in them going softer with the tyres if they're just going to take different harder tyres everywhere.” He added
"This is exactly what they did in the last few races of last year. They brought harder and harder tyres and we just ended up doing one stop.
"And last year they said they didn't want to interfere in the Championship so they took conservative tyres, but I never really understood what that meant."