On the topic of tire wear
it says this on Kovalainens wikipedia page
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Prior to the Japanese Grand Prix Kovalainen discussed his driving style and the tyre problems in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat, feeling they had now solved the issues. He explained his driving style was now very close to Hamilton's, as well as his car set-up. Hamilton's aggressive driving style seemed to work the best with the McLaren MP4-23, allowing the tyres to last longer. Hamilton hits the brakes harder and turns the car more quickly into the corner, while Kovalainen's softer driving style would be to drive with a longer curve into the corner, going easier on the brakes and accelerating halfway through the corner. Since the McLaren was harder on the tyres than Renault and the Bridgestones weren't quite as robust as the Michelins, that driving style now led to excessive tyre degradation.
Q & A with McLaren's Jonathan Neale today on Autosport
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Q. Can you say yet whether Jenson Button's or Lewis Hamilton's driving style will suit the MP4-25 better?
JN: We're still getting to know Jenson and his preferences on set-up and how we get him dialled in with the car. It's a good question though, who will have the advantage, if any, given the nature of the car and what tyres we take to each race' Lewis is a more aggressive braker and turner of the car so he tries to drive the corners in more of a V-shape.
Jenson is very smooth, which means he carries more momentum in the corners and loads up the car with more lateral G-forces. Both have the propensity to damage tyres if that's done in an unguarded way. At this stage there's no separate development plan. I don't see anything in the vehicle dynamics package that would cause us to deviate, as we have done in the past. It's early and we'll know more after two or three races.
If I'm not mistaken both are saying almost same thing right?
Might shed some light on the bridgestone report...though to be fair, the car was likely set up better for Lewis on his last Barcelona test day compared to Button on the previous when they just got the upgrades.
for Jenson's sake, lets hope the 25 is much better/different from the 24.... and 23.
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