Fernando Alonso has hit out at Pirelli and claimed that
Formula 1 does not have the right tyres for when it rains.
Interlagos provided a challenge for the drivers with the
wet weather making grip a luxury and Alonso has
criticised the tyres provided.
Fernando Alonso hits out at Pirelli tyre quality
Since 2011, tyres for F1 have been exclusively provided
by Pirelli but the full wet tyres are being used less and less.
While that is partly due to the FIA not wanting to risk
crashes, Alonso also suggested that they were simply not good enough for the
“top class” category.
“It wasn’t ideal conditions, but we also don’t have the
[right] tyres for the top class category of the sport,” he told DAZN.
“When it rains a little bit we always have aquaplaning,
there are always accidents…. I think Franco [Colapinto] even behind the safety
car… sometimes you can’t even follow the safety car. We have to improve that.”
Brazil was a miserable race for Alonso who has not
finished in the top 10 since Singapore. Towards the end of the grand prix,
Alonso said over the team radio that he was only persisting with the race to
honour the mechanics.
“We had a better car in qualifying and then we had to
change parts of the car and go to other components with less performance,”
Alonso said.
“In the race we were already going bad again with
different floors and other parts that we had already discovered worked worse,
but we didn’t have any good spares. We were less fast in the race.
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“We also had problems with the brakes. Lance [Stroll] had it in the formation lap and I had it in all the restarts behind the safety car.
