Pirelli The 2012 Formula One season has wound up and what a stonking season it was. Congratulations to Sebastian Vettel in winning the driver's crown becoming the sport's youngest triple world champion. He also joins Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher in the exclusive club of winning three consecutive titles. Kudos also to Red Bull Racing for also winning three consecutive constructor's championships. A marvellous achievement for such a young F1 team, which remember morphed out of the Jaguar ashes in 2005. The unpredictable nature of this season made foreseeing a winner event to event nigh on impossible. Strategy was always hard to anticipate. Was this down to the Pirelli tyres and their widely acknowledged narrow operating temperatures? Friday practice sessions from Round 1 at Albert Park to Round 20 at Interlagos saw all teams putting down as many laps as possible in a bid to comprehend their rubber and how it reacted to differing fuel loads, circuit configurations and temperatures. The F1 governing FIA asked Pirelli to come up with even more aggressive compounds for 2012 compared to 2011, and on many occasions we saw various cars' tyres insist on their drivers pitting as grip dramatically decreased in the space of a couple of laps. We as fans love the fact that Formula One is rarely processional these days. With KERS and DRS spicing up the racing, were Pirelli the overriding factor in contributing uncertainty to this year's fantastic F1 season which celebrated eight different winners? Let us know what you think. Send formulafrontrow.com an email at: greenflag@formulafrontrow.com or simply leave a comment. Roll on 2013.
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