Formula 1 BLOG

I have only one thing to say about the return of slick tires in F1. Yes!

It’s always seemed to me a bit odd to have such a single purpose machine as an F1 race car forced to run on grooved tires. Three cheers for the return of slick tires to F1.

Bring back slick tires, get rid of traction control and drivers aids, go back to manual shifting and then maybe we’ll be back to seeing who are the really skilled drivers.

It looks like Bridgestone will be marking the soft compound used in Melbourne this week but not with a pretty red stripe. Bridgestone has elected to go with a “White Dot” that will be 3 centimetres in diameter.

Bridgestone is also pointing out that this may change after the Melbourne race.

I’d really rather see a bold red stripe instead of a little white dot and while they are at it how about some nice chrome hub caps!

For the 2007 Formula One season Bridgestone will be making only 4 tire compounds for dry weather. These tires will be designated as “Hard”, “Medium”, “Soft” and “Super Soft”.

For each race two of these compounds will be selected and each team will be required to run at least one set from each of the two different compounds during the course of the actual race.

It would also appear that the pretty red stripe that was proposed to indicate the softer compound tire will not be happening this season as too many of the teams were concerned it would give away their tire strategy to their competitors which could put them at a disadvantage.

I kinda wanted to see the pretty red stripes because as everyone knows, stripes on things make them go faster!!!

Just about 3 weeks to go now until the first race …