Pirelli motorsport chief Paul Hembrey has said that the Italian company will be working with the Formula One teams to help to improve the on-track show next season through the cunning use of tyre compounds and the like.
Hembrey admitted that the Pirelli tyre choices for 2011 were likely to be more "conservative" than they would perhaps like to be, as they enter their first season as a Formula One tyre supplier since 1991.
But he suggested that as the company learned more about F1 tyres, they would be looking to help to improve the show.
A number of races in 2010 have been spiced up by the tyre compounds used by Bridgestone this season, and the company has chosen "aggressive" compounds for the remaining 2010 races in an effort to produce racing action without the organisers having to face up to the responsibility of fundamentally changing the car designs.
And Hembrey says that Pirelli will do what they can in 2011 to help to continue that process.
"We will seek to do this [keep improving the show], alongside the needs of the teams," Hembrey told the O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper in an interview over the weekend.
He added: "To produce durable and high performance tyres is not a problem.
"The challenge is to find the right compromise between lifespan and durability, with regards to the show."
He admitted that there was no logistical way that the Pirelli company will be able to test at all 20 GP tracks to be used next season, which would likely mean they err on the side of caution at times in 2011.
"It could be that because we cannot test at all the [Grand Prix] circuits that we need to be more conservative at some places, so that the tyres can survive but the show doesn't benefit as everyone would want," he admitted.
"It must be understood that 2011 is our first year," he reminded everyone, for some reason.
Pirelli began testing at the Mugello circuit earlier this month, and have tests at Paul Ricard and Monza already lined up for September.
The Pirelli testing team, consisting of former BMW Sauber driver Nick Heidfeld and a 2009-spec Toyota F1 car, are aiming to complete six in-season tyre tests before the F1 teams get their hands on their first Pirelli tyres at the young driver test in Abu Dhabi in November.
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