“It’s difficult, isn’t it,” Monaghan said. However, Red Bull chief engineer Paul Monaghan disagreed with Green’s assessment, saying the teams could react and stating Red Bull had voted in favor of returning to the 2018 tires. And I think to try and not distract from the testing that’s going on post this event and post-Silverstone as well is the right decision and focus on next year, and try to do something for next year, rather than a knee-jerk reaction in the middle of this year.” “From our perspective it’s too late for this season and I think the decision to focus on trying to do something and trying to improve the tires and the show for next season is the right thing to do. It sounded like a significant risk to us. “And from what we could tell, it wasn’t clear cut at all that a change - reverting to last year’s compound gauge thickness - was going to be a positive change. “We listened to the arguments and we especially listened to (Isola) Pirelli are the experts in this area,” Green said. Team representatives explained their points of view following the meeting, with Racing Point technical director Andy Green stating he did not feel a change was the right move. I don’t know yet because it was discussed (a few) hours ago.” We will continue the discussion in the next days and maybe we come with a proposal for Silverstone or something like that. “The meeting was quite productive there were new ideas, new proposals for maybe the end of the season. But after analyzing the positive side and the negative side… there was a vote from the teams and the decision is to stay on the current tires. “We know the dominance for Mercedes is not helping the show at the moment and we had a discussion of the opportunity to re-introduce the 2018 tires. “It was mainly to understand if there is anything we can do to improve the show,” Isola said of the meeting. Mercedes has dealt with the new tires well and won all eight race so far this season, and with unanimous agreement required to re-introduce last year’s tires, Pirelli head of car racing Mario Isola confirmed the teams did not approve such a switch. This year’s tires feature a thinner tread - designed to prevent overheating and blistering – but have proven tricky for a number of teams to work with.
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A meeting between the Formula 1 teams and Pirelli at the Austrian Grand Prix to discuss a possible return to 2018-spec tires this season has failed to reach an agreement.Ī number of drivers - including Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel - were present as the teams met with F1’s tire supplier at the Red Bull Ring on Friday morning to discuss changes to the current tires being used.