Pirelli is guaranteed to continue in Formula 1 as the exclusive tire supplier in the coming years and is currently developing a radically different product for 2025.
Often, drivers and teams complain about tire performance, as was recently the case in the São Paulo GP – with severe degradation preventing them from achieving the best possible performance due to the need to save the tires.
Mario Isola, director of Pirelli, stated, as quoted by the grandprix.com website: ‘We are dissecting the connection between tire wear and on-track dynamics. Our goal is to design a tire that wears in a way that complements the race’.
What is completely out of the question is having tires that do not wear at all, as it is part of the strategic component. The Pirelli representative made that very clear: ‘Tire wear is the catalyst for much of the on-track action’.
Also, a tire that wears uniformly on all cars is not on the table, according to Isola: ‘Without varied tire wear, we risk having a procession instead of a race. We need to maintain the competitive element that different wear rates can provide’.
