There are many rumors and the informations that run around the immediate future of the Formula 1. One of them is the one that concerns the care of the tiresSo, initially, the thermal blankets that warm the tires were going to be prohibited for the next season.
However, and provisionally, the regulation was modified immediately after so that they were maintained. Of course, the FIA has the option of ban them again after a new meeting that will take place next July.
George Russell has been one of the pilots who have participated, precisely, in a test of Pirelli on the tires without blankets. Something that, for the taste of the British, was not done properly.
In some statements collected by ‘Motorsport’, Russell assures that “probably not tested under the right conditions and on the right circuit“.
“If you go to a circuit like the one in Barcelonathe tires were not very good coming out of the ‘pitlane’, but more or less in turn 5 of the warm-up lap they were already at a respectable level“, he adds, referring to the fact that the layout of montmelo was too favorable when heating tires.
Despite this, Russell is critical with the idea: “I don’t think we as a series are yet in a position to bring these tires to real races.“.
Something that home completely with The opinion of Fernando Alonso. The two-time world champion, who already used tires without thermal blankets on his way through the indy 500has been emphaticallynegative with the idea.
“I think it depends on how much tire energy is put on that particular circuit. I’m not a big fan of removing heating blankets to be honest, and I don’t see the reason to do it.“, has commented the Aston Martin via ‘Motorspor.com’.
