@genius83
There is a world of difference between what you see on a truck and what happens in F1. Personally, I have never seen the journey of a truck televised on live TV to an audience of nearly a billion people around the globe.
Bridgestone are reaping the rewards of suppling tires to F1 by being associated with the FIA safety campaign. They are here, in F1, to build their image and not here to provide entertainment to people when FIA, FOTA get it all wrong and whatever changes they suggest, their engineers and aerodynamicists come up with complex solutions to get back all the down force.
But leaving all that aside, and i am no genius:) here is a simple solution if indeed Bridgestone are forced to bring softs, super softs and medium compounds to a race. Right now there are only two team vying for the front row of the grid, Red Bull and Ferrari. Red Bull is faster but it's only a matter of time before Ferrari find the two tenths they need to get on the front row. Thats the only reason why these two teams go out on soft tires to put up a time because they are watching each other. Neither of them have any fear of Mclaren or Mercedes for the moment, those teams are 7/10ths to a second behind in qualifying.
So, me not being a genius, will make the Red Bull and Ferrari qualify on the harder compound available to them. They will still take the front two rows of the grid, go more than two thirds of the race distance on those tires and switch to the softs for the last part of the race when the track has rubbered in more, and the softs won't go away quickly. That means pretty much the same result, only the tires will be used differently.
Second scenario; Lets suppose Mclaren and Mercedes on the softer tires, some how manage to get ahead of Red Bull and Ferrari on the harder tire in qualifying, their tires will only be good enough for a maximum of ten laps at the most in the race. How much of a gap can they pull in those ten laps? No more than 5 seconds is what i am thinking and even that is pushing it. They will need to pit and fall back to 10th or 12th place as a result, behind cars that are using the harder compound available. Their race is done because Red Bull and Ferrari will take over at the front, continue with their harder tire and pit later for softs.
So disastrous would that strategy be-that Mclaren and Mercedes will end up behind the likes of Kubica's Renault and perhaps the Force India cars too, all running on the harder compound, and thats where they will likely finish. Changing/ forcing Bridgestone to bring soft tires will not solve the issue. It could become a safety issue with tires being shredded within a couple of laps and drivers wanting to stay out to have track position that could lead to an accident and God forbid it should happen on a track like Monaco, with no run off area.
As for the pitlane speed limit, 100kph is nothing. Although i thought it was 120kph, maybe they changed it to 100kph but that takes forever to make a pitstops. Teams/drivers looking to have track position will not sacrifice that for a fresh set of tires, on tracks where its hard to pass, as we saw in Australia. For that to work, the pitlane speed limit has to be increased and entry and exit to a pitlane made the shortest possible, not have tunnels as pitlane exits. There has to be something that computer simulation shows is worth making an extra stop. Without that, no luck.