You can buy older F1 tires/tyres from before the Pirelli era but they are usually tables and chairs now AND they have to be treated because the rubber off-gasses can be toxic and generally horrible in the home.

Why do they even make wet tyres anymore, nowadays any session will get cancelled as soon as the intermediates go on.

It is absolutely comical that F1 has all this talk about being 'carbon neutral' and 'net zero' yet each car is allocated 18 sets of tires with many of them being thrown away if not used. I'm the last person to toot the environmental horn but F1 is living in fantasy land with their PR lie that is net zero. Excellent video and very informative as always. Well done.

When i was 8 , 50+ yrs ago, at a reverse direction sprint at knockhill , watching the men at work on a F5000 Lola , i asked how heavy are the rear tyres , they said come and try to lift it , wow , not really any heavier than my dads cortina wheel that we changed the week before . I felt as strong as Superman. 🎉

2:58 This part of tires as a set, is crucial to understand that when a driver flat spots a front tire, they essetially screw up an entire set of tires.

I think these tyres are a marvel of engineering. Sometimes you'll see a cut-through visual of a tyre and that's already incredible to see. The various materials used or just even the different mixture of a compound. When was the last time we saw a tyre blow due to tyre wear? These days the puncture comes from a collision with a car or an object on the track. I can appreciate this level of detail, engineering, and care. Thanks for the video :)

F1 loves complicated unnecessary money waisting procedures and process

As always, it is a delight to watch your F1 videos. Insightful and fun

Calling shenanigans on F1 carbon neutral .

Who remembers that race in America i think where the Michelin tyres were failing and they had to tell the teams their tyres weren't safe to race on so only the cars on Bridgestones "raced". What a shamozzel that was.

I have a Rear Wet used by Alain Prost at Silverstone in a test. Not saying how I got it but I was there at the test that day and discovered it was in my boot (Trunk) when I got home It was cleaned and treated and is in daily use as a coffe table

I have an old Goodyear F1 tyre with a circle glass plate on top as a couch table, love it :)

Done some work at a factory about 20 yrs ago and the boss proudly showed me his race used Mark Blundell driven Tyrrell rear slick tyre, ist surprised me when I ran my hand over it, when cold it was more plastic feeling than rubber, if u flicked it with your finger it was like hitting a thick drum skin than a rubber compound tyre, it made a sound like a drum too,

it's good to see Will Smith (0:20) just waving a flag and not slapping someone.

In the early 90’s some friends started a business selling a range of boots that had F1 tyres for the soles. I used to sell them at Touring car meetings. One problem was that they used to leave skid marks on kitchen floors!

Ooh, 3d graphics for the tyre compound explainers, nice.

Thank you, this was very informative!!

Such a great video about something so key to an F1 weekend.

I have an old Pirelli supersoft tire with all the barcodes still on it. Does anyone know how I can check which driver used the tire? Unfortunately, emailing Pirelli doesn't work

Glad I have my Goodyear Eagle F1 tyre as a coffee table (used for a test session at Silverstone 1994 by Tyrell purchased in 1997 )

Very insightful, thanks!

Before they cut tire beads, race car tires could be found. I got mine for free for years from the Parnelli Jones Firestone store in Torrance. Then things got tough with Firestone orders to cut beads. But I made friends with mechanics there and could usually find tires for my old street driven corvette.

Informative vid!

Another fantastic video from you Matt! Interesting

I don't need sleep, I need answers

Fantastic insight into the life of an F1 tyre! Unfortunately, a large proportion of the microplastics in the ocean come from tyres, so its a shame that F1 goes through so many. I wonder if the amount of microplastics would be different for an F1 tyre vs a normal road car tyre (different rubber compound, etc.)?

The groves in the tyres also allow the rubber to move around more and therefore create more heat.

It’d be cool if teams could mix match different tire grades when they’re racing. Example being hards on the front and mediums on the rear. It’d make tire selection strategy so super interesting

I have an unused competition Pirelli medium tyre on a 13inch Enkei front rim from a Mclaren Mp4-26 that I made into a table. I made a base for it and put some 6 inch legs on it, LED lights in the middle of the rim and a glass top. It looks great

One thing Goodyear does with NASCAR tires is make soles for shoes with them. I think that's a fun way to get fans involved

I had a IMSA race tire coffee table in my 20s. Every girl I’d bring over would say the same thing when they walked in my apartment: “what’s that smell?” Seriously, your place will smell like a tire shop.

Always wanted to know this stuff, well presented.

you can walk the track and pick up rubber, there goes the intellectual property thought. As far as other suppliers, no one wants back in. Michelin said no, Perrelli is it at the moment

Neat production, Matt. By _neat_ I mean "well done" more than *_nifty._* Though it was. Nifty, I mean. Which is _aaargh!_ ^5

I was on a farm outside of Otorohanga in 2000 and they had an F1 grooved tyre on top of one of their silo pits.

I've got a rear tyre and rim from Theo Fabi's 1986 Benneton.

My last visit to Indy, $5 a pop for your new porch swing beer holder.

That raw materiel is VERY proprietary to say the least! It would be extremely careless of Pirelli to just hand their competitors their cutting edge technology as a souvenir. 😉

for some reason I always thought, after the race, the still usable tires would go to F2 and so on 😀

I mean yeah you could look at it as Pirelli protecting their intellectual property. Or you could see it as Pirelli protecting their monopoly on the market.

Another use for recycled tyres is the soft grounding under play equipment in playgrounds.

How do the cars and the team's equipment know which pressure sensors to connect with? There's wireless (I think) pressure sensors on all the rims, so I'm guessing someone has tell the equipment that there's a new set on the car and it the car needs to display the pressures for the new set and not the old. I guess there's a lot of simple ways to get the correct tires displayed, I'm just curious about how they actually do about doing this. I'm also interested in how, and how long it takes, to correctly get all of the wireless connections set up each day.

Matt, have you been reading my mind?! I was just wondering about this!

Meanwhile, used NASCAR tires are surprisingly easy to get a hold of (many teams will sell them to you directly) and not even particularly expensive, especially if you live near any of the team shops. And there's a whole collectors market for race used sheet metal as well...

How interesting. Thank you for sharing.

I though they were taken back to the plant in Didcot, can't see any information saying that they aren't, where did you hear that they are not taken back there?

Over 10 years ago, I was able to find someone who lives in the same state as me in the US, who had some F1 tires. He wanted $800 per tire. I walked away without one.

So much tyre waste yet the V8 engine was their problem with it's non environmental-friendly emissions.

It is interesting to consider that ALL racing tire (tyre) manufacturers do this. And then to consider IMSA, where they have multiple manufacturers across the classes. They must keep VERY close track of all of those tires!

So 600 tires on a given race week? Wow

Much Happier with My NHRA Goodyear Drag Slick!

Ohter series allows different spec tyers on. Why not f1? More economical, ecological and bigger offset if you get it wrong (so more excitement)

In the late 1960s in Los Angeles we would go to the back door of Shelby enterprises,,$40 a tire for used road racing slicks, we told them we were using them at Lions drag strip four our street drag cars,,well that's at least what we told them...

So the FIA has the same replacement policy as Discount Tire: “Oh, you have a thumbtack in a single tire? It’s dangerous to replace just one and can’t patch it, so you need to buy 4 new tires.” *This is a joke, obviously race cars need matched tires. Please don’t @ me about how I don’t know anything about tires. Just a comment about how commercial tire shops try to boost their own sales.

how could it be enviroment friendly to produce a tire from raw materials that takes energy to produce and if the tire is not used burn more diesel in a truck to ship the tires back to a plant and shred them and just burn the rubber?

The video should have been called "What happens when tires retire?"

interesting they are using psi instead of bar.

I’m convinced bro only owns one shirt

For f1 fans who wanted tyres but Pirelli are scared of competitors... Why not sell older tyres because they improve every year or give us compounds that aren't used anymore eg the pink banded supersofts snd so on before the c series rebrand even

Why not use some of the tires for tire barriers on F1 circuits?

Well i think those tires are "retired"

I heard they ship them back to Uzbekistan where they’re eaten as a dessert.

Wind tunnel tyres £999 ouch

Interesting video but what the hell is Formmla 1?

I think I just watched something about tires being rubber, and you cant buy them.

Do the tyres come out of the teams budgets? If so what happens to the cost of the unused tyres does the money just go to Pirelli back pocket

Never use any other brand on my Yammy, they stick in any weather

I can’t wait to f1 have another tire supplier! Pirellis on the rain just does not work!!!!

Finally a video 😅

Thought tyre warmers were being barred.

I go with Michelin Cup 2’s personally

With the latest tyre technology, they can recycle used rubber and even make condoms from racing slicks. From an average-size slick, they can make 365 condoms from a Goodyear. That's an open-source joke, so feel free to bounce it around. Thanks for a great presentation, Matt.

Such a waste of tyres that aren't put to use. You would think how much they want to get to "Net Zero" that they would fix this.

My dad owned a 1994 schumacher winning tyre

I believe I saw Formula 1 tires for sale on ebay. Unless they weren't really F1 tires?

I would love to have a used F1 ype.

imho, they should bring more mediums than softs, everyone runs mediums during the races, either at the start, the middle, or the end

All part of F1 zero emissions 🙄

Wet tyres? Hadn’t heard that name for a long time.

Dude u sld also check what F! helmets are done after a race weekend, each driver has 3 new helmets each race...would be an interesting video...plz consider looking into it

Why did it take 8:40 to say what happened to the tires after a race?

Very interesting.

I'm sorry but no matter how hot you burn the shredded tires you will have CO2 as a minimum unless they are recapturing it.

Man you must use alot of sharpies lol

The used tires are burned, because they are NOT steel belted. If all car tires were not steel belted the great mass of tire graveyards would not exist. Bann steel belted tires for cars....Then the tires could be recycled or burned for energy.

Your sound quality is a bit stuttery, what's going on?

All tires, all.

Air or Nitrogen?

No competitor wants to reconstruct Pirelli's awful tires. Michelin and Bridgestone have better racing products that can withstand many fastest laps. 🤷‍♂️

F1: "We have these amazing tires to race on heavy rain, latest technology guys!" Any person: "Cool! So the drivers can race on wet conditions too!" F1: "No, we don't race on rain for safety reasons."

I know where there shredded I have worked on the machinery that dispose of them , there no chance to get a tire perrelle have a man on site watching the process of being disposed of and dosnt leave till there shredded

To make the racing more interesting...teams should be able to use their own tyre brand.😊

formala?

Having one tire company stinks of corruption. Why not let all the tire companies battle it out? This is also so wasteful to have so many tires.

Tires are filled with Nitrogen not Air !

If f.e bridgestone wants an F1 tire they get one......

Yet, some company got their hands on some of these F1 tyres to make wrist bands? Are these also fake? Edit: These are special editions from the types of MSC. Apologies!

they get Tyred...

I thought ghey just fly tipped them on the way home😂.

Goodyear gives them away at nascar and Nhra