Pirelli Tire company is doing its best to provide Formula 1 teams with the most dependable set of tires possible for each race, while teams give maximum effort in balancing talent and technology. Plans by series organizers to spice up the races are giving both teams and the tire sponsor good reason to up the ante in order to keep the race as safe and exciting as possible, without sacrificing performance.

Former Formula 1 racer Patrick Tambay, now a television commentator, posted a question on Facebook asking “is it normal, nowadays, to deliberately build racing tires that last for only +/- 56 kms at the most and depending on who’s driving?”

Pirelli’s motor sports program director Paul Hemberly answers that they “are trying to find our feet, knowing what the right point is, so that we don’t over-stretch or exaggerate, but equally, if we are too conservative we will be back to square one.”