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Wheels are measured everywhere in inches and tire width in milimiters even in the US, kinda weird.

Car manufacturers use inches as the whloe industry is set up to be in inches, so change would cause so much cost it would cost and cause far too many issues

Yeah its like tv screen sizes, just habit i guess

And screen sizes xD

The imbalance of the misalignment pissed me off to begin with. I thought "How has he not centred those?", and then when the guidelines came in, it made more sense.. and then when the 17" wheel "realigned", it illustrated the overall difference in diameter better.

@@utetopia1620 absolutely the same thoughts and emotions! Haha.

you mean tyres are in mm/%-inch :D

Same in France

@@bingoberra18 yes! Tyre codes are some of the most confusing specifications ever!

Its kind of like with monitors.

Same in Portugal. With TVs too but we also use cm for those

Incorrect. Sidewall moves independently of contact patch. Less load on sidewall means more sliding, therefore more degradation on contact patch.

@@isuckatthisgame What is incorrect? Sidewall deformation affects contact patch the two are not independent unless the tread separates from the sidewall. If that happens you're probably in the wall.

It's funny to see people still seething over it.

@@ZontarDow You should look at Sky F1's website occassionally if you want to know why. I'm pretty sure their constant hammering of the subject is partly why many Brits are still outraged when most of the rest of the world has moved on.

@@rjfaber1991 I think the fact that Brits are actually under the illusion that he's the GOAT and was robbed also has a lot to do with it.

@@rjfaber1991 I'm in the US, and I haven't moved on. It's like the Olympics - when the officiating is clearly bogus you lose all respect for the sport. The FIA can fix the rules, they just don't want to because then they'd have to admit that last year was a farce. I'm sure Verstsppen is too egotistical to care, but I know that in his shoes I'd know that I didn't really EARN the championship. Someday he'll mature a little and realize that his championship is a hollow victory and be ashamed. Or he won't.

@@andrewostrom8676 You are rather missing the point that if Masi had allowed all passed cars to overtake as soon as that was possible, instead of first wasting one lap with the "lapped cars will not be allowed to overtake" message, the race would have restarted on the final lap, and to all likelihood would have come to the same conclusion. Yes, the procedures that were followed by Masi in only letting some cars past and restarting immediately were a very fringe interpretation of the rules, and I agree that the incident is worth looking into for the good of the sport, but if you're going to reason along what-if lines and draw conclusions about whether championships are earned or not based on that, at least go all the way back to where things first started to go off the rails and reason from there, not just from the point you feel most aggrieved about.

it'll probably still show through the rim, since the brakes are larger now

I rather have a close racing than 20s lead with cool glowing disc brakes.

It also prevents us from seeing the wheel designs, which on 18"s will be a lot more visible, and seeing the 3D shapes of the wheels is a lot cooler aesthetically than flat wheel covers (look at concave-face wheels vs flat-face wheels of the same design, the concave variants almost always look better)

@@jsquared1013 I believe all of the wheels are homologated this year, and all are manufactured by BBS

@@hamzterix ... at, what, 3 races each year out of 23, no less :D

Oh no, why did you have to type that. I'm just going to laugh everytime I see them now. Space savers, oh dear me!

Definitely need LED showing their team manager head rolling around slowly

@@bocahdongo7769 that would be rubish

The old 13 inch wheels certainly had it's unique appeal with the large tires they used that I really like. But I agree, the wheel fairings did wonders on the new wheels compared to how the initial prototypes looked. To me it just kind of looked like someone simply had pimped a F1 ride.

@@jonsen2k they were just better

Yeah but contact area is greater, meaning more damege in lockups and the cars are heavier. But we don't know how the compound works yet.

Woah 🤔 Interessting Theorie and also very smart. Never thought about that, but it should be like you say.

very eighties, absolutely fantastic

Red bull designed them yes,but BBS are manufacturing them.

Not quite. It's inches for wheel rim but NOT 'profile of tyre'. The profile of the tyre (sidewall height) is a percentage of the width of the tread. 225/40 means that the tread is 225mm wide and the sidewalls are 40% of 225mm high (90mm). It's only the wheel (rim) diameter that's still in inches. So the whole size might be 225/40-R15 (for instance with a 15" rim).

aww jeez it's even more complicated than i thought

Less big-sidewall deflection also means more consistency in the tires'/tyres' behavior(/behaviour?) while cornering.

That would be absolutely against the spirit, what next? Drivers getting BoP? It’s already a big enough farce that RB got it’s wings clipped last season with the pitstops.

But that’s the sport!

Changing the diff ratio makes the most sense.

i remember schumacher going for 4 pitstops in france and he was pushing every single lap he won that race

he means less pitstops, because the tires can last longer while still being pushed

The new tires allegedly can be pushed for longer meaning possibly less pit stops

Old geezers?

No Michael that's so not right