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Originally Posted by Dean
It would have been nice if they followed the spectrum which at least some of the population knows by heart. ROGBYV Put White on an end if you want.
Or Green yellow red, Ummm... white blue?
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Well, I think they specifically picked colors that will be obviously different when on track at the same time.
For example, blue and purple make more sense for the wet/inter tires IMO, but then at a wet race as conditions start drying, it's potentially hard to tell which cars have made the switch from wet to intermediates since the colors are similar. But with orange and blue, it's super obvious that two cars are on different tires. And it looks like they were careful about two similar colors ever being used at the same time... like red and orange: it would be rare for drivers to go from full wet to soft without going to inters in between. And like Nick mentioned, the white/silver issue is moot since those two tires will never be used together on a race weekend. Same goes for red/yellow for that matter.
My earlier point about not using green at all is that last season's tires have used a green stripe to indicate soft, and they didn't bother to use green at all in the new color scheme.
Personally, I would have gone with:
blue/wet, green/inter, red/supersoft, orange/soft, medium/yellow, hard/white
That's more logical and sorta follows the rainbow, and it avoids any similar colors on track together:
Wet race: blue/green
Soft race: red/yellow
Hard race: orange/white
But like Nick said, I don't know that there was a lot of thought put into the decision. Or perhaps there were some other dumb F1 issues, like maybe Bridgestone has the copyright on green decorated tires. That would actually make more sense than anything else we've been making up in here.
