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Originally Posted by YOUR Hero
I'll bet that'll change.
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It's a difficult issue. The fact that Michellin couldn't produce a tyre worthy of a race is more damaging than the rules themselves in my opinion. If you open up "backdoors" then you could have problems of tyre companies going for faster and faster rubber knowing that if they are unsafe to last the distance they could always fall back on another pair through the safety get out clause.
Perhaps the best way to solve the whole tyre issue in formula one would be to move back to one tyre manufacturer. The tyre war would not exist and all cars would have the same tyres and so races would be fairer.
And before everyone jumps on the FIA (and Ferrari's) backs the Michellin teams could have ran at lower speeds and higher tyre pressures but chose not to. The Chicane wasn't the only other alternative. If Michellin can't produce a tyre how is that the FIA's fault?
It isn't Ferrari's fault that Michellin fucked up and they shouldn't be punished for it by just altering the rules for someone else's mess up. I bet if Bridgestone had the problem and the same thing people would be hella pissed off if a new chicane was put in there for Ferrari and the other Bridgestone teams. There is a growing anti-Ferrari sentiment in the sport some of which is deserved and some of which definitely is not.
And Paul Stoddart can shut the fuck up with his hypocritical whining.