In my opinion i believe some form of control over tyres would be a good thing. I recently raced at the Silverstone weekender event (which was excellent by the way) and the only tyre allowed all day were the new Fastrax tyres. This made for some really interesting racing as the weather was changing from one minute to the next. You didnt have to worry about which tyres to go out on if it started raining as you were only allowed to use the control tyre. This just left driver ability and set up knowledge to determine who the fast guys were. It was really nice to go to a meeting where you didnt have to buy two different compounds for the wet or dry, you just put the control ones on and leave them all day.
As for limiting the number of tyres this would be a really good idea from a cost point of view. People say the numbers are high for nationals but the vast majority of people racing at nationls are the same people who were doing then 10-20 years ago. There is a lack of youngsters racing these days at all levels of racing and a big factor in this has to be down to cost. If i had kids now theres no way i could afford for them to be having new tyres nearly every run for them to be competative.
As someone mentioned earlier the real problem is maybe not down to the amount of tyres you can run but down to the cost of tyres themselves. Schumacher have had a monopoly for far too long and for that reason have been able to charge whatever they want. I for one would love to see the profit Schumacher make from selling tyres, i bet its huge!!
We can all make suggestions and argue out points, but in reality nothing is going to change, toy car racing is a business and businesses are out to make profit. Limiting the number of tyres or anything we use in our hobby will not go down well with any business.
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