Marin Whitmarsh has suggested that Bridgestone’s Formula One race tyres are too good and the Japanese manufacturer needs to make ‘racier’ tyres that will add a little more spice to a Formula One race.

In Sunday afternoon’s season opener here in Bahrain most runners only completed one pit stop and according to the McLaren team boss, this helped to create a dull and boring event that needs to be rectified as soon as possible.

Fans were thrilled in 2009 when the excitement began to return to the track, but with further new rules implemented this season, the first race has left them wondering if things were heading back in the other direction.

Whitmarsh has suggested that Bridgestone create a tyre that won’t allow drivers to go the distance....

"We were one of three teams that said we should have two mandatory pit-stops because we were worried about others one-stopping. I think we have to re-examine that,” he told the BBC. “But I think if we can now push on Bridgestone to have 'racier' tyres, we need a super-soft tyre that is really going to hurt if you take it to 20 laps. You shouldn't be able to do that with a super-soft tyre and I think even the prime, if it's a struggle to get it to do half a race distance, then you force it.”

"The tyres were much closer in the race than we expected and they determined the spectacle. There was no real serious degradation of the tyres, we started the roll of pitstops because we were trying to get ahead of [Nico] Rosberg and everyone started to come in at that point. But otherwise, just based on tyre degradation, we could have run to lap 25 or more on the super-soft tyres. If you can do that on the softest tyre, then the primes are just going to romp through for as long as you like."

The Australian V8 supercar series uses an option tyre that gives the drivers an advantage speed wise but the compound is that soft that after a certain number of laps performance drops off significantly, forcing them to come in and change to the other compound. While it may be too late to implement this now, Whitmarsh thinks that mandating stops could help...

"Formula 1 has to be entertaining, people have to be switched on to what is going to happen in the race, if it's processional they are not going to be. Today was not the best show, we know that and we have all got to work together to improve it. I personally believe that more challenging tyres will help the spectacle of the show," he said.

"I also personally believe that we should have two stops mandated because we want to stop this. Today, if we had had a safety car on lap five, we'd have all piled in [to the pits] and we'd have all gone on the prime tyre and run to lap 49 without a stop. That was a real danger. I think that the tyres are allowing you to do that, I'm not trying to pass the blame. We are all in this together”

“We do need to look at mandating stops, we do need to look at the tyres and make them more fragile, and we do need to work on making the cars capable of racing close together and easier to overtake. Unfortunately the double diffuser, and we have all got them, has really worked against that in the last two years, we have got rid of it for next year but that is arguably a year too late. What can we do this year? It's go to be work with Bridgestone and potentially mandating more stops in the race."