Apparently Michael Schumacher will be happy with Pirelli‘s tyres during this years formula 1 championships.
This is because the tyres have been tweaked slightly from the ones that were used during the tests in Abu Dhabi in 2010.
Paul Hembrey, Pirelli‘s Motorsport director has said ”We were asked to provide a slightly stronger front tyre, which is what we’ve done,” Hembery reported.
“In the process we maybe threw the rear out of balance, which is something that was noted during the test. But we’ve also improved that during the remaining tests that we’ve done.
“We were asked to try to beef up the front tyre, to give it more a precise input when the drivers turn into the corner, to give more feel. We believe we’ve done that, and we’ve now finished the work on the rear so we’ll see how we get on with a car designed around our tyres.”
“We’ve got no request in place [for Friday 21st January practice] because we haven’t run yet,” he told media.
“But that’s something that, if we do uncover problems as we go along – or we’ve maybe got the wrong positioning of a compound for the positioning we’re using, we can ask them to add in a test session to give us more information. That’s something we’ll hold in reserve for an emergency.
“At the moment we know we’re going to be in Istanbul in April, then Barcelona in May. We’ll definitely be back in the Middle East again in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi at the end of the season. We couldn’t get Silverstone, we’re trying to go to Monza and probably Spa as well.
“So we are trying to carry on a parallel development programme. That’s obviously looking more for 2012. We’ve got some ideas that, given more time we would have taken forward, but those now are rested and being put towards that programme.”
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