Photo by: www.kymillman.com/f1 Admittedly I have been looking for a reason to like the high degradation tires since they were introduced and unfortunately, I have no found one. There was the initial year. Then the year they tried to get too involved in out-thinking the race engineers and suffered several tire blowouts and then they went back to a more durable tire and faced stiff critique that they were being too conservative. I’m not sure how much punishment Pirelli are willing to take but it’s a noble charter to provide a racing series with a tire that is exact opposite of what you want your customers to think of your product. Last year was one of those “too conservative” years...
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