2013: the tyres keep blowing up at silverstone, this is an outrage 2020: the tyres keep blowing up at silverstone, this is the best race i've seen in years

imagine ferrari having to deal with multiple pit stops and more strategy

"imagine having no pits stops" - yeah imagine that.. *looks at forumla E*

2001: Can we go back to 1991/92? 2010: Can we go back to 2001/02 ? 2019. Can we go back to 2010 ? 2029: Can we go back to 2019 ?

everyone liked the racing of 2011-2013 era. lots of risks were taken. lots of battle. different constructors getting wins and podium. there was no gulf in performance between teams. and a lot more entertaining

In a few years we'll be saying how Canada 2019 shaped F1... 😂

8:01 Maldonado made the whole race with only one set of tyres. True LEGEND!

F1 chiefs: we want F1 to be more ecological Also F1 chiefs: we want tyres that only last for like 100 km

The Bridgestone tyres were virtually bulletproof everywhere else. Drivers could push for the whole race, depending on how greedy they’d been with the race fuel. Damn you, Canada. Look what we’ve ended up with.

I want the exploding tyres back :-(

I think 2010-2013 was one of the best periods in F1 history and it was mainly down to Pirelli.

04:30 Man, even him explaining what happened is more exciting than races in 2019.

So blame Canada is true? I knew it 😂🤣

Thanks to this, F1 has become tyresome to watch

I understand not wanting Refueling to return but I wish the cars were smaller. They are far too big these days

8:34 I think not enough has been done to study 2012 - what made it so good and how we can maintain that level of competition. The first half of that season was about as good as it gets.

Frankly tired of all the talk of saving tires. The best drivers in the world not going 100% each lap is just ridiculous

F1 is having too many regulations for its own good, I feel like FIA needs to sit down and rethink all the rules... thats what should've been done for 2021.

Can we go back to 2010?

Fascinating. I had no idea the 2010 GP sparked all of this. I think getting cute with the tire wear is not the solution. If you can carry enough fuel for the race, tires that last the race, why stop at all?

Some things are better when they happen naturally and the series doesn't try to force it.

So now we have tyres so fragile drivers have to cruise for 90% of the race. Great.

So we had a race in 2010 under Bridgestone when drivers pitted by lap 6(!) and Pirelli gets the slack for their tires being too fragile...

The race series with the best action don't have tires that need pitstops IMO, e.g BTCC, Formula E, MotoGP and British Superbikes. Sort out the drag problem and give them tires that allow drivers to attack throughout the race.

Funny how it's always supposed to be the NEXT SIMPLE rule change that will certainly make everything more entertaining. Seems to me that almost irrespective of the set of rules you choose to apply, there is invariably going to be one optimal strategy to win a race, and after a sometimes rather short, sometimes quite long struggle, all teams will converge on exactly that one optimal solution. Look at this year. It has become apparent that you have to follow Mercedes' development path to get these tyres working, and that getting the tyres working is such a large advantage that it overwhelms all other factors. So we'll see teams adapting their car to be harder on the tyres, like Mercedes, and depending on their design team and resources, those updates will come to the cars over the rest of the season, meaning we'll likely see closer racing towards the end of the year. Of course, Pirelli are supposedly changing up their tryes once again for 2020, which may yet again lead to a situation of one team hitting the sweet spot and many other struggling to learn from the best and apply these lessons to their own car. Wash, rinse, repeat. Want a closer field? Keep the rules stable. Everyone will learn eventually. (See V8s, see V6 PUs) And the law of diminishing returns will lessen the gap. But who am I kidding? There's a whole organization in place to come up with different variations on a theme, silver bullet rule changes, complete overhauls. So we'll see teams getting it right running away with it again. Yay.

Something I rarely see mentioned when this issue comes up - and with good reason, I realise, due to the obvious safety implications - is the role that the introduction of the pit lane speed limit seemed to have in creating the problem; I don't remember us scratching our heads about this back in the days when the time penalty for stopping for tyres wasn't so great as to outweigh the benefit of pushing every lap. Obviously we can't go back to unlimited pit lane speeds, but I'd be interested to see F1 do some research into pit lane design to see if there's any way time lost in the pits could be reduced. Even just push the limiter line in the pit entry at Silverstone back a bit for one year's race, see what happens to strategy. Drivers are less likely to conserve if opponents can push, pit and catch them again more easily, while it would give Pirelli more latitude to create an averagely robust tyre.

Wasn't the problem with the British GP incidents that the curb before the Hangar straight hadn't been seated properly, causing the corner of it to stick up out of the track and cutting tyres which went over it too quickly?

I liked the soft tyres of '11-'13

Motogp doesn't need any pitstops, fuel stops, tyre changes or radios. Just a good rule system that allows rider skill to shine through.

I understand the purpose of having so many tyres with some many different characteristics. But I tend to think that tyre managment is something that "distratcs" drivers too much. Yes, tyres should have different traits, but the way it has been I think it doesn't allow drivers to drive on the limit all the time. Maybe if we had only 2 well defined of tyres, and the 1 mandatory pitstop and let the drivers go, could be a solution. Also if we had the aerodynamics problems sorted out so cars could be closer to each other.

AH MAN, bringing back the memories! Had a wild couple of years, had the opportunity to attend a number of races, the last of which was 2013 British GP, was wild watching all those punctures. Very well done video! What I really wish we could bring back is the NA engines. Magic.

Omg chainbear on autosport this is sick!

I genuinely like pit stops as well as fuel and tire strategy. F1 would be lesser for not having them. How are we doing on rule changes that fix the aero problem?

Thanks for the interesting video. I won't say that I'm completely off the refueling wagon, but it did however make me sit closer to the back to jump off if they get it right. The biggest issue i had with the removal of refueling ban was the the safety of the people in the pit lane. Granted they are pretty much on top of that now, but there is still the odd chance that someone can get seriously injured due to a loose wheel. Now before anyone jumps at me that they had the same issue with cars going down the pits with the fuel hose still attached to the car, they could have easily avoided it by making the rules that you are only allowed to work on the car, that includes refueling, when the car is on the jacks, i.e. the fuel hose MUST be detached and the mechanic back past a certain point before the car is allowed to be dropped. I really hope that the hard work of Brawn and co is going to pay off. I'd love to see more on track action and the removal of DRS. I understand why it is necessary at the moment and i am tolerating it, but it makes the racing too artificial imho

As the 2019 F1 season shows, following and overtaking is easier now, so this season seems to become quite an interesting one. Can't wait for the next race!

Canada: sorry, but so sorry.

you forgot to mention that in the 2013 british grand prix, all the tyre failures happened to teams/car that were running tyres IN THEIR OPPOSITE DESIGNED DIRECTION. meaning they were running the left tyres on the right side and vice versa. every car that DIDN'T do that, DID NOT SUFFER TYRE FAILURES.

Imagine watching 24 ads on a 12 minute video.

Pirelli deserves tons of support and appreciation for their attempts to try to dial in their product to suit EXACTLY what makes the F1 show best. They haven't always nailed it, but they've always tried. Previous tire partners were clearly not so engaged with what made racing interesting.

Chain Bear!! Let me say as a technically savvy F1 fan, I thoroughly enjoy your insight paired with your superb dynamic charts and graphs. Very nice work keep up the tech videos!

Now we are here, in 2019 with like 4 to 5 overtakes in the rear half of the field and only 1 stop to change tires...

I think one thing that gets overlooked as well post-2013 is that the pit lane speed limit was lowered that year as well, after Webber's loose wheel struck a cameraman in the pitlane in Germany, which resulted in even more of a penalty for an additional pitstop.

Great Quality information. Keep it up!

I wasn't watching F1 yet at that time , but as I look back into history and races I think that 2011,2012 and 2013 were the best 3 years of F1 in recent decades. (2014 and 2016 were also very thrilling but only because of that Nico Lewis rivalry)

That McLaren Mercedes was beautiful

The pit stops are boring now, they last just 2 seconds, at least with refuelling you never knew how long they'd be and the strategy would come in to play. I liked the constant hard charging from that era, now it's a parade around the track.

Wow, that 1980's nostalgia, when you watch a diashow in 2019 is incredible.

Good video. You should do one on the lack of competition in the field.

Maybe they could try a 1 compound tyre that can be pushed to the limit all the time and then force teams to do 2 or 3 pitstops (depending on the track) Alternatively have a couple of laps where the pits open 2 or 3 times a race...

Fia knows the danger of full non restricted cars, they make new rules each year to limit the performance and thus the velocity of the cars, if no, the constructors could make cars with 400kmh and 3 or more G per corner, insanely dangerous. (Maybe in Bahreïn and Abu Dhabi it could fit)

Great graphics! Subbed!

I was there live and I remember the suspense and thrills and seeing the rear deg infront our own eyes. McLaren were amazing that race and King Lewis, already an ace at the circuit, drove very well!

Take me back to 2012 please

Ive always wondered if they should introduce something like: the drivers start on a hard tyre that can last the entire race and be pushed on tho lacked grip compared to a softer tyre that was designed to be massively faster but fall away. The idea is that teams can take the penelty of a pit stop but are rewarded with a tyre that is a magnitude faster so they can cover the pit time, time catching the drivers and enough extra performance and speed to overtake before they need to go back to the slower tyre or another set of faster tyres. You could also limit DRS useage to 10laps after a pit until the next stop is taken. Basically encourage drivers to pit rather than force them to

appreciate the well made video.

Great video and infographic

It would be cool to see formula 1 and Pirelli make race tires, 3 compounds per car (soft, medium, hard) that are long game tires they have to last 3 races, so your strategies include forward thought, and bottom 5 teams would get 2 sets of each, or some modifier along those lines. Would make the third race more exciting as the team's have dying compounds, but I understand the added risk of crashing and safety.

Need to get rid of the current medium option, just have hard and soft with the extra gap in between.

The all season tires idea is awesome in my head

The new cars are supposed to make the following cars get 85+% of their aero which is a MASSIVE improvement from the 50-% they've been dealing with. It will be very interesting to see what the racing will be like with functioning aero for following cars AND DRS.

They should start giving a constructors pt to the fastest pit team of the weekend

I still would like refueling to return

Great infographics!

I work at the facility that makes the filler material for Pirelli tires, as well as Bridgestone, Toyo, Sumitomo, Cooper, and a few others, used to make it for Goodyear till they dropped us and began using an alternative, but we might start making it for them again soon, it’ll be nice as we will have a hand in making pretty much all the different tires for all the different racing organizations. If we could only get Hoosier

enjoyable presentation and diction. well done..H6-81

“We could make the tires last the entire seasons if we want” -Pirelli 2011 “*SUPERHARD!!!!!!!” -Pirelli 2018 “C- uhhh... 4?” -Pirelli 2019

Actually, refueling does not allow "all out sprint" like mentioned, yes it means tire deg becomes a very minor factor (except when blistering or graining was happening) but refueling involves a lot more fuel saving in order to get positions in the pits: you save fuel behind the car you want to overtake and then you can do an overcut with a shorter refuel to get the position

I see we're all back here for some reason

I've always thought the best idea is to have teams do practice on 'practice tyres', so they don't know what to expect in the race, with more strategy variation as a result. It's like whenever FP1&2 are washed out because of the weather, there's always more unpredictability. Is there a reason that there's not much drive in F1 to do this?

Chain Bear - awesome and interesting as ever.

Man I wish there would be tyres like the 2011-2013 era tyres which would force the teams to do at least 2 stops. The races those times were also good because of the different tyre strategies which is something what I miss the most from the F1 now

You're a pretty good one, you know. I've seen a few of those F1 videos around here recently but you're something else. 👍

"We can happily make a tyre that would last a whlle race and not degrade" I can smell something, and it's definitely not burning rubber

2013 British GP ruinned the awesome tyres we had... I miss the period 2011 - 1st half of 2013, best F1 years for me...

Great video!👏

Wow, for once I vividly remember what is now considered racing history. I’ve always been jealous of when people say they remember watching the ‘95 LeMans (not that this is as historic). I had a feeling at the time when the commentators were talking about the grip falling off a cliff this was gonna be the future.

You drive mad every mechanic with that "no pits stops", you know... I'd go with the less-aero solution instead. Bumper to bumper battles are sweet.

McLaren Red bull Ferrari Mercedes These were the good old.... Wait.. it was just 9 jears ago

This is off topic but f1 2010 was my first f1 game so this makes me nostalgic

This is why races with multiple strategies are better rather than dull 1 stops which we get too often nowadays. Obviously the cars being closer helped a lot too

F1 needs to make many more rules and regulations. This will increase penalty stops and add to the race excitement. The big teams will hire teams of lawyers to interpret the rules and file appeals. This will create jobs and add to the general confusion. What could go wrong?

Raises exactly the points I recently raised in your "positive feedback" video. For me, the issue is not that Pirelli need to make aggressive, unpredictable tyres, but that the amount of running and data teams can do on the race weekend compounds is excessive and needs to be cut down. Let's use Canada this weekend as a case study: Each driver has 13 sets of tyres across 3 different compounds selected in conjunction with their team before the race. They then have a certain number of sets allocated for each session and use them as they see fit. So in total, there are 260 sets of tyres available to be used across a weekend, and teams get 4 hours of practice to work out all of their optimum strategies, fuel loads etc. This for me is the crux of the issue, because unless it rains at some point then the teams can prepare so precisely for the weekend that the outcome becomes somewhat prescribed because of the replicability of performance. So I would completely revamp the weekend to ensure teams get minimal running on their qualifying and race tyres to make them have to be a lot more reactive during the race. I would achieve this as follows: 1. Teams do not get to pick their tyre allocation for the weekend. Instead, Pirelli bring a set number of sets for 4 compounds to the weekend. 3 to be available for use across qualifying and races, and 1 exclusively for practice. 2. Practice 1 would be shortened to an hour and teams would only be able to run the compound not being used in the qualifying and races. Thus, teams would be able to assess their own car's reliability but would have to build estimations and predictions for their qualifying and race performance based on the standard tyre. More unpredictability. 3. Practice 2 would be revamped. The FIA would set the teams a number of challenges such as fastest lap, fastest speed trap, fastest sector, most consistent driver over x number of laps etc. etc. The winners would be able to choose a package of tyres which would contain a certain number of sets, i.e. Package 1 (6 sets) - 2 softs, 2 mediums and 2 hards. Package 2 (5 sets) - 1 soft, 3 mediums and 1 hard. etc. The FIA could also introduce time specific challenges i.e. fastest lap in the next 5 minutes, and the winning drivers could pick their preferred packages. Each driver could only pick up to 2 packages no matter how many challenges they won. After P2, the remaining packages would be up for "draft" and each driver would be selected at random to select a package. This would continue until each driver had 3 packages. This way, teams and drivers would have to try and earn their preferred tyre sets and this would lead to strategic conundrums. Does a driver pick a package full of softs to benefit them in qualifying at the expense of mediums for the race and vice-versa. It would also mean each driver would have to compromise on which tyres to use in certain situations making it more unpredictable, and perhaps creating a tyre advantage for a smaller team which could boost competitive racing. P3 would be scrapped and turned into a reverse grid sprint race, half distance, half points. Qualifying would become a 4 stage, head-to-head knockout, where each driver is drawn against another at random and has 2 runs in each stage to set their fastest lap, the fastest driver qualifies and their opponent is knocked out at that stage and given a grid slot based on the fastest laps of those knocked out. This would be a more unpredictable qualifying as you could have Hamilton v Bottas drawn in Q2, or Vettel v Verstappen, meaning big drivers in big teams could end up further down the field, and likewise a smaller team could have a driver make it all the way through to the final 4 by beating other midfield drivers. The race would of course be the race, but it would be made much more unpredictable and reactive as the teams would have done minimal running on those compounds and would have to react to their varying degrees of degradation. That lack of prior knowledge would put the onus back on the driver to manage their tyre life against speed without prior knowledge of an ideal stint length. For me, taking the control of the tyres away from the team and treating them like gold dust, protecting them from over-usage and analysis is a key way to make grand prix weekends more exciting.

A video that has so much more perspective and understanding of the sport than the omnipresent comments whining vague things like “it was better before”. This is how you make F1 work. Not by dreaming of a nonexistent perfect era, but by working on the sport’s design year by year.

Reduce the wings (front and back) and make the diffuser more affective(aka bring back ground affects)

"Imagine not having pitstops at all" We had that, it was called the 70's until Bernie and Brabham started making pitstops.

Interesting video. I think atm if anything pirelli is a bit too much on the conservative side, I think more 2 stop races or even the occasional 3 stop wouldn't hurt! And even if all problems were solved I hope pitstops remain a part of f1, they are part of the challenge

Nice work!

Amazing video!

Since F1 is so predictable and boring, I’ve solved the problem by no longer thinking of each venue as a race. I now look at each as a high-speed but orderly parade of F1 automobiles taking place in various picturesque spots around the globe. Now I don’t grind my teeth when Mercedes always arrives at the head of the parade...

Que the South Park song, "Blame Canada"

My favorite track to race on in F1 2012

Maby when they go in for a pit they could charge the battery then they can use the ERS more often. Something to replace the no refueling dilema. Or a smaller battery so they have to charge it after a certain amount of time, Battery change, anything really....

This is one of the examples that shows that strategy is the thing that can make races interesting aswell. This one is for all the (ahem new ) people that watch F1 and are like; Ah F1 iS sO BorInG NoW, look at the strats and you'll not be bored Edit: Hope ya'll enjoy the race weekend!!!

*How Canada 2019 ended F1*

Really should have introduced Pirelli’s tires before DRS. DRS wasn’t even a necessity until recently when you can actually make the case for it now.

Honestly the thing that killed this whole thing was “Pirelli slipping into a more robust approach” It was the addition of the third compound. It’s almost impossible to design 3 compounds that create this kind of racing. You either get a hard that’s too hard, or a soft that’s basically a qualifying tire. If you were to go back to 2 compounds, you’d be able to manipulate performance much more effectively.

Let's bring back refueling and make F1 like a "sprint" race again !

That was a dense video.

I remember that this race especially stood out for me as a negative race in that season😅

Very informative! You made me wonder one idea: What if Pirelly makes tires with two layers of compound? Internal layer of hard rubber and external of soft rubber for the soft compound and internal soft and external layer of hard for the hard tires? Maybe it’s a stupid idea and impossible but if somebody starts with the soft rubber, when the tire degrades it won’t be dangerous because they’ll become hard and slower, so they will put anyway. Then, with a hard tire, at the end of the race it will become soft and will potentially allow drivers to push harder for the last laps, so it could benefit the show