According to Scottish driver Paul Di Resta the Pirelli tyres that were used at the Malaysian Grand Prix last Sunday were not as fantastic as they’d hoped.
The tyres have been said to have had pieces flying off like rubber bullets and were hitting the drivers behind.
“There are a lot of marbles out there, maybe too many,” said the Force India driver, who finished 10th for the second successive race to keep up his point-scoring habit in his debut season. “Come the end of the race, it gets difficult to overtake.
“The other big thing is that they kept coming up and hitting me in the hands. In the middle of a fast corner, these lumps of rubber would be smacking into my hands as I turned the wheel.
“Rubber is not the softest material and if it got you in the right place, it could hurt. It happened quite a few times over the weekend and as you go into the corner, the rubber runs across thetyre and flicks up.”
Paul Hembry who is Pirelli’s motorsport director has said “I have not had those comments from the top three but if it’s an issue, we will have to confront it,” he said: “There was a lot of overtaking though. We will have to analyse all the overtaking manoeuvres but the marbles have to go somewhere and that is a difficulty for us.”
