2013 F1 tyres need a broader operating window – Button

Perhaps Pirelli’s 2012 tyres pushed Jenson’s buttons a little. Autosport.com shares that the McLaren driver, who finished this season in fifth place, believes Pirelli needs to make the F1 playing field “a bit more fair” by focusing on widening the operating window of its 2013 tyre compounds.

“I think it would be nice to see the working range of the tyre changed a little bit,” Button told Autosport. “As a lot of teams have, we’ve struggled to get it working and in the right region, and there just needs to be a bigger band of working range for everyone.” According to the British driver, some drivers “luck in to the tyres with their car at the start of the year and others luck out…It’s so hard to find a way of getting tyres in the right range, and you have to change your car dramatically in terms of cooling in order to make it work.”

He added: “I think it would be nice to see the working range of the tyre changed a little bit,” commenting that a wider working range would make it “a little bit more fair.”