Rosberg: Pirelli's slower & degrade faster
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Nico Rosberg fears the new Pirelli tyres will not help Mercedes GP with their lack of front-end grip - in fact, "it's worse".
Merc GP struggled with front-tyre grip this season, citing it as one of the reasons behind Michael Schumacher's slow comeback.
The seven-time World Champ's team-mate Rosberg also battled with it and had hoped that the new Pirelli tyres, which will be used in next year's Championship, would put an end to the problem. They haven't.
"It's worse," he told Autosport.
"So that's not a good thing for me. I'll cope with it - I've adapted in the past years so I'll manage. They are at least similar (to Bridgestone) or worse."
Rosberg added that, after the first day of testing at the Yas Marina circuit, he believes the Pirelli rubber is slower than the Bridgestone tyres.
"The general impressions are that they are slower, for one. Quite significantly slower," he said.
"After that, they were not easy to come to terms with on the set-up. In the big picture, they are pretty similar in the end to the Bridgestones, but if you are then looking for the fine tuning to extract the performance there is some way to go on adapting the set-up.
"At the moment, we have done the small things that you can do at the track but there are the bigger things that you need to take care of with the car development. That's going to be one of the areas that are very important for success for next year."
Added to that, the German says they also degrade faster than the Bridgestones, which may not be a bad thing.
"If that's what they want and it's the same for everybody, then okay," he said. "Tyres like that always give more exciting racing as well. So it's not necessarily a bad thing."
Credit: PlanetF1.com (www.planetf1.com)
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