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Little opportunity to improve wet-weather visibility with 2022 tyres – Isola
2022 F1 Season
Posted onPirelli’s head of F1 and car racing, Mario Isola, says there is little the tyre manufacturer can do to reduce the visibility problems drivers have reported in severely wet conditions.
Pirelli: removing blankets bigger change than tyre size
2019 F1 Season
Posted onPirelli racing manager Mario Isola has said that removing tyre blankets from F1 in 2021 will have a bigger impact than any size change.
Why Formula 1 should bring back the ‘tyre war’
Dieter's Inbox
Posted onRaceFans’ special correspondent Dieter Rencken tackles more of your questions including whether F1 should have a tyre war and what Hermann Tilke has done for track design.
Pirelli believes it has solved blistering problem for 2019
2019 F1 season
Posted onThe thinner rubber which will be used at all F1 races in 2019 should “massively” reduce the blistering problem teams experienced last year, according to Pirelli.
F1 may have to accept more one-stop races in 2019 – Pirelli
2019 F1 season
Posted onFormula 1 teams are likely to continue using one-stop strategies to win races next year despite changes to tyres, according to Pirelli.
Pirelli was asked to make wrong kind of tyres – Wolff
2018 F1 season
Posted onFormula 1 should give official tyre supplier Pirelli a new brief to produce rubber which allows drivers to race each other more closely, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes.
Pirelli goes aggressive: How new tyres will shake up F1 strategies in 2018
2018 F1 season
Posted onPirelli has done more testing, created more aggressive tyres and been bolder with its compound choices. Will that create more exciting F1 races in 2018?
Monaco will be first race for new hyper-soft tyre
2018 F1 season
Posted onPirelli’s new hyper-soft tyre will be used for the first time at the Monaco Grand Prix in May.
Polls show fans more concerned about DRS than tyres
Debates and polls
Posted onAn F1 Fanatic poll shows little appetite for major change in F1 tyres with more fans questioning the Drag Rediction System.