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Gerhard Berger has slammed as "incomprehensible" F1 tire supplier Pirelli's approach to the 2013 season.
"Last year, the tires were quite usable," the former McLaren and Ferrari driver, and ex Toro Rosso co-owner, told the Austrian news agency APA.
"Probably they want to improve the show by providing for one more pitstop (per driver). But it cannot be that, having invested millions in the wind tunnels and the engines and the drivers, you go to the track and can't use the tire," said Berger, referring to the recently-concluded winter test season in chilly Spain.
"It's an unfortunate situation," he added, acknowledging that the situation could be different at the actual races.
He also acknowledged that tires have always been a major talking point in F1, but there was often a tire war, or as Berger described it, a "real game".
"Now that there is one tire, it cannot be that it (the tire factor) governs the entire field," he insisted.
Berger's Austrian countryman, the Red Bull team owner Dietrich Mateschitz, agrees.
"It would be good," he told Blick newspaper, "if we had tires that did not need to be analysed for days and days."
Gerhard Berger has slammed as "incomprehensible" F1 tire supplier Pirelli's approach to the 2013 season.
"Last year, the tires were quite usable," the former McLaren and Ferrari driver, and ex Toro Rosso co-owner, told the Austrian news agency APA.
"Probably they want to improve the show by providing for one more pitstop (per driver). But it cannot be that, having invested millions in the wind tunnels and the engines and the drivers, you go to the track and can't use the tire," said Berger, referring to the recently-concluded winter test season in chilly Spain.
"It's an unfortunate situation," he added, acknowledging that the situation could be different at the actual races.
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He also acknowledged that tires have always been a major talking point in F1, but there was often a tire war, or as Berger described it, a "real game".
"Now that there is one tire, it cannot be that it (the tire factor) governs the entire field," he insisted.
Berger's Austrian countryman, the Red Bull team owner Dietrich Mateschitz, agrees.
"It would be good," he told Blick newspaper, "if we had tires that did not need to be analysed for days and days."