Technical Chief Mercedesa notes that they are current specifications tires similar for decades and believes the new rule of tires is essentially aesthetic effect, suitable for road cars.
"The kind of tires you see on race cars today are a really good solution for fast racing," so British. "The new tires will be heavier, have poorer grip and worse for driving. With them, we will slow down the race cars somewhere between one and two seconds." Allison he further said that the strongest argument when replacing current tires this one because they are low profile tires more popular in some demographic areas. “I guess if you’re a thirteen-year-old boy or a fan of ‘Fast and the Furious’, I’d like them to look like that. In road cars, performance is not in the first place, economy is more important. So better alignment of our world with road cars means that this is more relevant."
"It is also important because it means that tire manufacturers are more interested in being part of Formula 1 and that is very important to them," so Allison, for which there is another obvious reason to change the dimensions of the tires and this is that aerodynamics in designers easier to work with harder low-profile tires. "So if we were the FIA and the FOM and we wanted the whole field to come together, it would be good to have tires that don't interfere so much with aerodynamics,” he says British. "But this is now a great opportunity for us to see how it turns out. I think time will tell."
