Pirelli still searching for test car for 2017 tyres

Pirelli remains attempting to source the right auto with which to analyze its prototype 2017 tyres on the course of next F 1 time.
The Italian firm expects to be on the right track as soon as May, thus in effect has just six months to fix the issue.
Pirelli continues to be charged with constructing broader tyres as a piece of a bundle which includes new aerodynamics and a rise in downforce.
The latter has caused it to be difficult for Pirelli to locate a suitable vehicle, as the 2017 versions will probably be quite so not the same as present automobiles.
When Pirelli first arrived to the the game it employed a Toyota chassis - after Japan firm had removed in the athletics - before changing it with a Lotus.
Among the crucial issues is ensuring that everybody is happy the team providing you with the evaluation auto will not gain an edge.
Among the difficulties with changing a present automobile by repeating 2017 downforce is the fact that its suspension wouldn't happen to be designed to handle the larger loads.
Hembery has additionally noticed that when the Toyota was changed to to perform down-force it just became too sluggish to supply useful data.
"I think it is nonetheless associated with the ordinances, we nevertheless have no idea what kind of vehicle we need to locate," Pirelli leader Paul Hembery told Motorsport.com.
"There has been numerous suggestions, including using automobiles from preceding years that had greater down-force, and accommodating something like this, right the way through to accommodating the hybrid-car. But talks in the newest regulations continue to be on-going.
"There are a few teams that believe it is possible to return to a classic automobile, so there is a a large difference about what could be supplied.
"I believe we'll what till the the guidelines are explained, and then we'll have a talk on the way in which the car would appear, and what will be the most effective road to consider. There are a lot of stuff being discussed."
Tough job
Williams technical leader Pat Symonds admitted that Pirelli faces a trial.
"I nearly believe there is no answer to it," he mentioned. "Of course there will be, but it's not going to be a best one. You are likely to need to create an automobile that is got a lot more down-force onto it.
"You would not always have to assemble a vehicle to adhere to the 2017 rules, you could do things that were prohibited only to get the loads upwards, and that would not be overly hard to do.
"But it is difficult, because we are speaking about fairly important increases in loads in the suspensor etc. So all the underlying construction must be stressed for so.
"We are likely to find a 25% upsurge in load, now we-don't style our automobiles 25 per cent more powerful or heavier-than they need to be.
"To take action entirely correctly you'd be speaking about developing an automobile to get it done. Who is got the assets to do that and can Pirelli manage to do this? It is a very hard thing for everybody to do."
Symonds is determined the team associated with the testing can profit.
"No matter who it, you must mention that there is some edge inside. I do believe the signs of this is when Lotus did the function for Pirelli. For several years after the Lotus proved to be a competitive automobile.
"It is incorrect to mention that the tyres were developed around that vehicle, that is incorrect, but the management in the experiments that have been done is normally heading to favour what that auto said was most useful. It will not always mean that is what other automobiles said was most useful.
"As the tyres are suffering from a way Lotus, has dropped some of this competitiveness. It is quite indirect evidence but it can indicate that there is a a bit of an edge in having that automobile there. It then comes down to some one whose prepared to subsidise it to get that edge.
"Who are able to get it done? Ferrari, Mercedes, Redbull. No one else can manage to get it done."

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26.11.2015
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