The new construction was introduced to improve resistance to multiple impacts with kerbs and so on, and teams were given the possibility to try it as an extra experimental tyre in Belgium and Italy.

Following factory tests, Pirelli promised that the revised tyre was 'transparent,' and thus there would be no impact on actual performance if the tyre was fast tracked into a race weekend proper at Sepang.

However, some teams found that not to be the case.

Although plans for a 2016 introduction have been canned, Pirelli believes that it gleaned a lot of useful information that can be fed into next year's programme.

"We analysed all the data but unfortunately we had some inconsistency across the teams," said Pirelli technical boss Mario Isola.

"So the feedback was not the same for all the teams. So we have decided to keep the current specification until the end of the year.

"I want to reiterate that the current specification is safe, it's tested, it’s not because we have any doubt on the current specification that we wanted to introduce the new prototype. But we feel that this concept, the concept that was in this prototype, was something that we have to consider for 2017 tyres.

"So we will probably continue to develop this idea for next year’s tyres. We will test this idea in 2017 prototypes, with the big size, in the mule cars."