It is now five years since Pirelli decided to discard the ‘rainbow’ colour coding of its F1 tyres, and OllieHarden argues the time has come to bring it back.
With television commentators still referencing the exact compound in play during the introduction to each session of a grand prix weekend, the issue has not been resolved but instead moved to the shadows and ultimately leaves the average fan less informed.
How, they must sometimes ask, are the cars struggling to switch on the hard tyre in this grand prix when it worked fine at the previous race two weeks ago, unaware that the harder compound is actually two steps harder now than it was then. The issue was brought back into focus at the 2023 pre-season test in Bahrain, where Pirelli were obliged to bring every compound they plan to use throughout the campaign and the Italian manufacturer gave birth to another new compound, the new C1, which is there to bridge the gap in performance between the old C1 and C2, with the 2022-spec C1 now becoming the C0.
With the white/yellow/red colour coding remaining rigid, the different compounds were made distinguishable by whether or not the tyres had stripes – or “brackets” as Pirelli call them – running down the sidewall.Predictably, that resulted in situations in which commentators – poor David Croft for example – had to squint at a car moving at full speed to decipher whether or not the tyres carried stripes.
Let the very hard be orange; let the hard be white; let the medium be yellow; let the soft be red; let the supersoft be purple.
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