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Originally Posted by Aerkuld
Wasn't the situation somewhat different?
It sounds like the NASCAR tires were wearing out, but my understanding with F1 was that the Michelin tires were failing unpredictably due to the unusually high forces and high speeds around the sectio of banking. It's one thing to have to change tires every 10-15 laps because they're wearing out, but quite another to have a tire fail without warning and put you into a concrete wall at 200mph. Basically the F1 teams on Michelin tires were advised by Michelin not to run as they were not confident that the tires would be safe.
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IIRC they were at first blowing out unpredictably. Then once they realized what was happening, they found that tires with less than 15 laps were o.k. over than were showing signs of wear.
They had 2 options, pit every 12 laps or so OR stay off the banking.
Since they were not about to loose to a back marker team they chose to make a big scene then park the cars.
They tried to change a track hours before the race because a tire manufacturer tried to make an advantage that backfire.