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Originally Posted by Matth
A brief history of tyres:
Back in the good old days, there were qualifying tyres, super soft, super sticky, and they only had one good lap before they were gone - the team with the best qualifying tyre performance qualified high, but could be well out of place compared to race performance.
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correct, as far as I know - and Bridgestone used to produce 'bespoke' qualifying tyres for Ferrari in those days also ???
However the current regs forcing teams to use inappropriate race tyres is a nonsense, in my opinion - so long as all teams would have to use the same soft tyres for qualifying, why can't they all use the same hard/medium ones for the race ?????
- i.e. have a choice, not be forced to use a tyre that will grain within 3 laps, it adds nothing to the racing, just puts it back to tactics, which is not what I (as a spectator), want to see ???