Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Alonso adds comments to Pirelli Tyre worries


Fernando Alonso has also spoken up about what he thinks about the ‘rubber bullets’ or ‘marbles’ that were flying from the tyres on Sunday at the Malayasian Grand Prix.
“It was more difficult than Australia for sure,” said Alonso. “There is some concern for places like Canada, Singapore, Monaco, that you catch a lapped car, they let you past, you go inside, you take some marbles and then on the next corner you miss the braking point and you go straight.
“Malaysia was a very wide circuit, and you can come back to the track, but there will be some difficulties in some narrow tracks. We need to be careful and we need to get used to these new things as well.”
It has come to light that there were ‘marbles’ or rubber during testing the tyres back in the winter but that was put down to the low temperature, now Pirelli know that its not the tyres, they are working on them for the next race to get them changed and improve them, as the drivers won’t be allowing this to happen to them again.