Following the earlier threat from the GPDA to boycott the German Grand Prix if another tyre failure takes place over the race weekend, the FIA and Pirelli have issued guidelines to which the teams must stick to over the race weekend.
These guidelines will enable teams to avoid the causes of the four high-speed tyre blowouts during the German Grand Prix that Pirelli outlined in a statement earlier in the week.
The GPDA met on Wednesday to discuss the Silverstone fiasco, saying that they were "deeply concerned" and that they "trust that the changes made to the tyres will have the desired result and that similar problems will not occur during the German GP weekend."
Their statement also announced that should a tyre failure happen again, then they "shall immediately withdraw from the event."
Following that strong statement from the drivers that make up the GPDA, the FIA and Pirelli have reacted with this statement:
"For safety reasons, we have been asked by Pirelli to ensure that the tyres on all cars are run under the conditions listen below. It will be the responsibility of each team to satisfy the FIA technical delegate that their cars comply with the following requirements at all times:
1) Minimum starting pressure front and rear: 16psi
2) Minimum stabilised running pressure front: 20psi
3) Minimum stabilised running pressure rear: 19psi
4) Maximum negative EOS camber front: 4.0 degrees
5) Maximum negative EOS camber rear: 2.5 degrees
6) Front and rear tyre must be used on the side of the car for which they were originally designated (no swapping from side-to-side).
7) The blanket strategies must be observed."
The sixth ruling is one that may come as a shock, to think that teams deliberately swap the tyres to gain a performance advantage. But they do as running a left-rear tyre on the right-rear improves the durability of the tyre and has been used by the likes of Nico Rosberg - who admitted it could hurt his pace. A picture released by Sky Sports F1 showed the bar-codes of the tyres that should be on the inside being positioned on the outside of Rosberg and Webber's car.
Pirelli earlier announced that the Kevlar belted former 'prototype' tyre that had been tested at Canada and Silverstone on Friday will be used this weekend with a whole new set of 2013 tyres being brought to Hungary.
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The GPDA met on Wednesday to discuss the Silverstone fiasco, saying that they were "deeply concerned" and that they "trust that the changes made to the tyres will have the desired result and that similar problems will not occur during the German GP weekend."
Their statement also announced that should a tyre failure happen again, then they "shall immediately withdraw from the event."
Following that strong statement from the drivers that make up the GPDA, the FIA and Pirelli have reacted with this statement:
"For safety reasons, we have been asked by Pirelli to ensure that the tyres on all cars are run under the conditions listen below. It will be the responsibility of each team to satisfy the FIA technical delegate that their cars comply with the following requirements at all times:
1) Minimum starting pressure front and rear: 16psi
2) Minimum stabilised running pressure front: 20psi
3) Minimum stabilised running pressure rear: 19psi
4) Maximum negative EOS camber front: 4.0 degrees
5) Maximum negative EOS camber rear: 2.5 degrees
6) Front and rear tyre must be used on the side of the car for which they were originally designated (no swapping from side-to-side).
7) The blanket strategies must be observed."
The sixth ruling is one that may come as a shock, to think that teams deliberately swap the tyres to gain a performance advantage. But they do as running a left-rear tyre on the right-rear improves the durability of the tyre and has been used by the likes of Nico Rosberg - who admitted it could hurt his pace. A picture released by Sky Sports F1 showed the bar-codes of the tyres that should be on the inside being positioned on the outside of Rosberg and Webber's car.
Pirelli earlier announced that the Kevlar belted former 'prototype' tyre that had been tested at Canada and Silverstone on Friday will be used this weekend with a whole new set of 2013 tyres being brought to Hungary.
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