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It was definitely smoke coming off of the tire........either something got caught up on the body work or the body work itself was a bit loose and cut the tire down.

 

Wow what a loading that tire is taking there.

 

F1 tyres are incredibly light, particularly the sidewalls, so that wrinkling deformation isn't that surprising. I was going to say they are 'high' aspect ratio, though the actual sizes are 270/55 R13 front and 325/45 R13 rear, so not exactly 70-series....

 

I thought the race was entertaining, some good fights back in the field. The race was for 3rd place, I feel sorry for Vettel & happy for Rogro all at the same time.

 

The tires also run about 18psi........... and under the compression at Eau Rouge I can see how that could happen, and also see how it could have affected both of the cars that had tire failures.

 

Ferrari took a gamble trying to run Vettel to the end with one pit stop. Had it worked we'd have said brilliant strategy. Now we say what were they thinking, me included.

The fact that both Rosberg & Vettel had right rear catastrophic failures is quite interesting. I think running that many laps may have contributed to Vettel's failure, but what about Rosberg's?

 

My favorite track and a boring race after the first few laps.

 

Not so sure about Vettel's tires not losing their performance. Seemed to me Rogro was reeling him in. Not sure he could have passed Vettel, but now we will never know.

 

It definitely was a bummer that the tire failed.

 

Pirelli has found cut on tires from other cars. They claim it's from debris on the track. You would think if there was that much debris the they would have had a yellow to clean it up.

I think it's an Indy Michelin thing. They didn't figure right on the loads from the cornering, compression and torque.

 

The tires as they are now contribute to the spring rate. Anything can be done given enough money & F1 teams sure know how to spend it. Pirelli would have to spend a fortune too. I don't see a benefit to a change like that.

 

But Ferrari had a Pirelli guy with them during the race monitoring the tires. Shouldn't he have told them that they had worn out? The driver certainly would have felt them being worn out and the times would have shown they were worn out.

I like these comments the best:
"In other words: this is almost certainly Bernie’s fault. "
"Its always Bernie’s fault!"

 

You all are missing the bigger picture - Vettel had to do a one stop race in order just to finish third!

Something wrong there.....and he was the fastest of the racers who weren't Mercedes.

 

I think Rogro in his Lotus was faster than Seb. He did 2 stops to Seb's one & darned near caught him.