Formula 1’s drivers have congratulated Pirelli on what has generally been received as a successful returning season for the Milan-based company. The Italian firm was last involved in F1 20 years ago, when Nélson Piquet won in Canada for Benetton.
Pirelli returned to the sport to replace Bridgestone, which had entered F1 in 1997 and had been the sole supplier since Michelin’s departure at the end of 2006.
“To come into Formula 1…you know you can’t hide coming into Formula 1,” says McLaren’s Jenson Button. “I think that they’ve done a great job - they’ve definitely been a part of the action this year. There’s been a lot of great overtaking and some of it does come down to tyres.”
“I think everyone had to adapt a little bit, not that the Pirelli was worse than the Bridgestone - it was just different and you had to treat the tyres differently,” adds Brazilian home driver Rubens Barrichello.
“There has been a lot of overtaking and I think Pirelli had done a really good job to actually help that. So, together with the DRS and the KERS, I think the show has improved and let’s hope that’s the way Formula 1 going to be for the long-term.”
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