F1 2011 Pirelli Tyre Photos

**TIFOSI_FERRARI** · 15th November 2010, 16:46

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**xpman** · 15th November 2010, 17:05

just hope they have improved since larst time they where in oh yeah i forgot they dont have any competetion this time round so . am not expecting great things from them.

**hogo** · 15th November 2010, 17:33

Yellow letters ftw! Those will look great with our car. Can't wait for 2011!

**Hornet** · 15th November 2010, 17:53

Hmm, no intermediates at all next season?

**DIEK** · 15th November 2010, 18:58

**Suzie** · 15th November 2010, 19:14

Can't wait to see how the testing goes this weekend. Let's hope they suit our car and drivers.

**DIEK** · 18th November 2010, 19:42

**Ste** · 18th November 2010, 19:44

So, how are the compounds going to be distinguished? Green lines? White lines?

**siberianlady** · 18th November 2010, 20:27

Originally Posted by Ste

So, how are the compounds going to be distinguished? Green lines? White lines?

Yellow lines?

**siberianlady** · 18th November 2010, 20:28

Are these the same guys wearing Bridgestone shirts till this morning? Someone tweeted that the guys just causally changed shirts in the middle of today and carried ona business as usual........must have been pretty odd.....

**Ste** · 18th November 2010, 20:29

Originally Posted by siberianlady

Yellow lines?

What about just having the entire sidewall pink? Or maybe in the Italian flag colours.

**siberianlady** · 18th November 2010, 20:31

Originally Posted by Ste

What about just having the entire sidewall pink? Or maybe in the Italian flag colours.

Double yellows for the top teams = no overtaking.

**Ste** · 18th November 2010, 20:33

Originally Posted by siberianlady

Double yellows for the top teams = no overtaking.

Double white's then.

Hamilton could have double yellow's - No parking.

**siberianlady** · 18th November 2010, 21:34

Originally Posted by Ste

Double white's then.

Hamilton could have double yellow's - No parking.

No they are specially reserved for Schumacher in Monaco........oops!

**Ste** · 18th November 2010, 21:53

Solution for Jonathan?

**Tifosi** · 18th November 2010, 22:01

**DIEK** · 20th November 2010, 07:48

Rosberg: Pirellis won't help Mercedes

Nico Rosberg doubts the new Pirelli tyres will do anything to ease the difficulties Mercedes suffered with front-tyre grip on the 2010 Bridgestones, after the Formula 1 teams tried the 2011 rubber for the first time in Abu Dhabi today.

Mercedes had struggled to adapt to the performance of the front Bridgestones this season, and this issue cited as a major factor in Michael Schumacher's disappointing comeback.

Asked by AUTOSPORT how the feeling from the Pirellis compared, Rosberg replied: "It's worse."

He explained that the front tyre felt 'weaker' than the Bridgestone had been.

"So that's not a good thing for me. I'll cope with it - I've adapted in the past years so I'll manage," said Rosberg. "They are at least similar [to the Bridgestones] or worse."

The German said the lap times looked set to be slower on Pirellis.

"The general impressions are that they are slower, for one. Quite significantly slower," Rosberg said.

"After that, they were not easy to come to terms with on the set-up. In the big picture, they are pretty similar in the end to the Bridgestones, but if you are then looking for the fine tuning to extract the performance there is some way to go on adapting the set-up.

"At the moment, we have done the small things that you can do at the track but there are the bigger things that you need to take care of with the car development. That's going to be one of the areas that are very important for success for next year."

Rosberg also described the degradation rate as "quite heavy", but added that despite his comments about tyre wear and pace, he felt the Pirellis could still be very good for the racing.

"If that's what they want and it's the same for everybody, then okay," he said. "Tyres like that always give more exciting racing as well. So it's not necessarily a bad thing."