Once upon a time those round black circles of rubber at each corner of the car were called tyres. Over the years we've had wet and dry, then slicks, inters, full wets and Monsoon. We've had prime and option, only to morph into hard, medium and soft, thence supersoft, ultrasoft and hypersoft, not forgetting superhard, or brutal as we like to call them. It was all getting a bit ridiculous. Now Pirelli has been officially requested to do away with the various names and come up with a more simple solution. 'We've had a request from FOM and FIA to just call them hard, medium and soft,' the Italian manufacturer's head of car racing (a somewhat silly title in itself) Mario Isola told reporters....
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