a guy posted this on fb....i think Kimi did not like those tyres?
quoteTurunSanomat.
"I don't think these technical changes can be said to suit some drivers better or worse. It is more down to the tires and how you get them to work, that makes the difference. These tires fit some driver better, and other just can't get them to work and because of that difference in performance and grow big. By the general feeling, these tires are like the late 2013 tyres."
That´s why I am not optimistic at all for the new season! I think so far Kimi has lots of problems with the handling of the car/set-up.
"Walk on, through the wind, Walk on, through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, And you'll never walk alone, YOU`LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!"
The tyres are always going to be important to some degree, they the only contact patch with the ground after all.
But you also have to look at how the car actually performs with the tyres. The Lotus was the car that was the lightest on its tyres. When harder tyres where introduced it was at times difficult to heat the tyres like in the rain for example. But look at the Red Bull for instance they fried their tyres at the beginning of season but as the tyres became harder, the car performed perfectly with the tyres. It also isn't a linear equation, Mercedes fried their tyres even more then Red Bull, yet when the new tyres was introduced last season they didn't benefit as much from it as Red Bull did. Alonso seemingly also had issues with the tyres change, when the tyres was changed Massa out qualified him six times in a row. But then again it is difficult to only look at the situation from a tyre perspective. It could be that there were other parts changed on the car, that had a bigger effect then the tyres. It is the same situation for Kimi as well, last season it seemed like his problems had more to do with the longer chassis then the tyre change. And then again it wasn't just the chassis but actually the new camber restrictions that was introduced with the tyres. There is a lot of factors to take into consideration when talking about tyres, the way the car actually reacts with the tyres is the real important factor.
But for now the fact remains that Kimi has less then half of the testing mileage of Alonso so far. It isn't a deal breaker, but it is going to have an effect with all of the new rule changes. On to of that Kimi needs to click with the team and his new engineers once again. This does take a bit of time. So there is no doubt that Kimi will be on the backfoot, the situation is what it is, it was just the circumstances of testing. We can only hope that Kimi's car is reliable throughout this weekend, and that he gathers some decent mileage.