The Incredible Evolution of F1 Tyres

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2 жыл бұрын

So Formula 1 tyres have changed a lot, from skinny radials on the first Grand Prix cars, to slicks, then grooved, then back to slicks again. The performance improvement has been enormous, where today - the tyres continually (well kinda) support the car at speed of 200 miles per hour and pull up to 6G on the brakes.
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So for this episode of Track Evolution, I’m going to take you from the 50s to today and z
explain what’s changed and why the tyres have continually caused arguments.
Right, so in the 50s they did tyres the old-school way. Skinny, treaded tyres with a relatively simple construction. And really, they weren’t much different from the tyres you would see on a modern mountain bike.
They were supplied by a whole bunch of manufacturers, people like Pirelli, Firestone, Dunlop and Englebert. But if you take a look at the stats, Pirelli were a class above the rest - taking way more wins and podiums.
This was apparently due to them being both faster AND lasting longer - that seems strange to hear as a current F1 fan - but we’ll get to that.
The fronts and the rears were the same size, in both diameter and width - so the cars really didn’t have a whole lot of grip.
Taking a corner was kind of the case of cranking on a whole lot of steering lock, then just waiting for the understeer to end. Typically they would then get on the power and turn the understeer into oversteer - honestly, they were drifting for a lot of the lap.
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@timjourdanmedia 2 жыл бұрын

you can tell me what you want, but those early 2000s f1 cars with the grooved tires, smaller and narrower body and screaming v10... they are the embodiment and peak of f1 and its looks

@puciohenzap891 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@roastingminer6919 2 жыл бұрын

I would say the 1990 cars like ferrari and McLaren were like the ideal look of f1.

@phoenix1279 2 жыл бұрын

The cars from 1998 - 2008 were beautiful.

@ismarwinkelman5648 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! That was the era I definitely enjoyed the most 😎👌🏾

@pgmallon 2 жыл бұрын

Those cars are the embodiment of what f1 should be again. Move the electric crap over to Fe and shrink them again.

@DonatProdanSimRacing 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's worth noting that the transition from threaded tires to slicks in the early 70s wasn't so smooth, in fact back then in the very early days of slicks, drivers often complained how 'snappy' and 'peaky' the tires were as the drivers were used to long lazy slides of older threaded tires.

@purwantiallan5089 2 жыл бұрын

Merry christmas 2021 donat prodan.

@andyelliott3198 2 жыл бұрын

Corrections Pirelli did not remove the grooved tyres when they re-entered F1 in 2011 it was Bridgestone who removed the grooves on the tyres in 2009. Also the 2022 cars will have 18 inch diameter wheels not tyres, the tyres will be more like 22 inches in diameter.

@EndriuC 2 жыл бұрын

They even showed a 2009 Brawn on slick Bridgestones...

@timcattley1056 2 жыл бұрын

Tyres like wheels are measured across the wheel diameter, thus it is correct to say that in 2022 F1 tyres will indeed be of 18 inch diameter. Andy is referring to another measurement which is the tyres overall diameter.

@crazycjk 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see Scott's son having a go at hosting, what a nice Christmas present from his dad. Didn't he do well too!

@44dam4 2 жыл бұрын

Really? Scott doesn't look old enough for a son this age. Damn!! Good on you man!!!

@CallumMcIntyreRacing 2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha no I'm not Scott's son!

@phoenix1279 2 жыл бұрын

That’s his son!?

@JumboJet123 2 жыл бұрын

He's not Scott's son lol, Scott just getting married,he still a fresh husband:v And he's does not have Mansell name in his name:v

@WHALEx3 2 жыл бұрын

Bruh fake news

@drnerd 2 жыл бұрын

That Scott fellas not bad, give him the job! 😂😂😂

@shafinibrahimhossain6123 2 жыл бұрын

6:17 "I was racing in ex F1 cars in Boss GP" Reminds me of a certain F2 driver.

@dyutimoydan8752 2 жыл бұрын

😏 its lord mahaveer

@hannahmillington5781 2 жыл бұрын

I prefer the cars with the front wings between the tyres not so wide that they cover the tyres - I think the smaller wing encouraged people to poke the car's nose into gaps more as there was less risk of aero damage

@zethyuen8859 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best series' on KZfaq. Excited to watch!

@zethyuen8859 2 жыл бұрын

@@leyuvanim5913 bruh wtf no

@bas1sokkie604 2 жыл бұрын

Let the teams choose the 3 compunds they want to use for each race. It would add an interesting strategy aspect. Imagine RB going for C1, C2 and C5 an Merc opting for C2, C3 and C4. Or some other crazy

@chrizzvt 2 жыл бұрын

thatsssss mah friend a great crazy idea

@prodbybabygod7411 2 жыл бұрын

@MAAHAQQ strategy is strategy

@vasudevdehariya1269 2 жыл бұрын

Frankly that would make F1 a lot harder to follow bcz everytime someone is battling someone you gotta look for their tyre type.

@ItsHammertime2023 2 жыл бұрын

@MAAHAQQ Except that maybe Pirelli bring all 5 dry tyres to the race weekend and rename them back to Ultras, Hypers instead of C1 C2 etc. and let the teams have the freedom to choose what tyres they want. There is no limitation on you have to start the race on that Q2 tyre, none of that. All teams can choose whatever tyres they want to quali and start the race with.

@ItsHammertime2023 2 жыл бұрын

@MAAHAQQ Well if unused save them for the next race then. In an entire season all 5 types of tyres will definitely be used Its not like the unused tyres have very little lifespan. And what is your problem with Pirelli?

@gregorymarsh9504 2 жыл бұрын

I have a BURNING question: Classic, vintage, and historic race cars that wear slicks or those old squiggly treaded tires and are used for historic races... are the tires on those cars of a superior compound and capability than their original time period counterparts, thereby making the car much faster, or are the tires engineered to behave like tire technology of the era of the car?

@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303 2 жыл бұрын

Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt but I think I remember of at least one tyre company (I think continental) that produces tyres identical to the historical spec

@williamstrachan 2 жыл бұрын

From this video (@1m50) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o76Xirp_r7zIiXU.html it appears that Pirelli has updated the compounds and construction of their "classic rally" tyres at least

@Jonathan_Doe_ 2 жыл бұрын

It would depend on the rules of the historic series you enter. You can buy both exact ply/compound/tread replicas, completely modern ply/compound/tread tyres just with vintage looking logos on the sidewall, and everything between.

@gregorymarsh9504 2 жыл бұрын

@@Jonathan_Doe_ So this means at least one tire manufacture makes tires that fit historic race car wheels and have nowhere near the modern day performance of today's tires, yes? Meaning, they basically deliberately "hold back."

@Jonathan_Doe_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@gregorymarsh9504 Basically yes. But it’s probably safer on really old cars. Their wheel bearings/suspension parts/chassis probably couldn’t handle the extra loads of actually gripping instead of just sliding. Also the centre high of gravity of the older F1 cars would make it especially dangerous if they didn’t slide slightly through corners.

@piccalillipit9211 2 жыл бұрын

*CONTACT PATCH AREA* does not directly affect grip on most tires. Coefficient of friction does NOT have "area" in the equation [μ = F/N, where F is the frictional force and N is the normal force] The smaller the contact patch the higher the contact pressure exerted by N so it cancels out. A larger contact path makes the tire LAST LONGER as it spreads the wear over a larger area. Also on super sticky compounds that are actually adhering to the road surface contact path does increase grip.

@lancercool1992 2 жыл бұрын

0:04 when the world's fastest cars rocked positive camber... glad to live in the most current time available

@akifhossain5122 2 жыл бұрын

Bono: Where are your tyres? Lewis: Gone. Reduced to atoms.

@crazychimp1324 2 жыл бұрын

I used the tyres to destroy the tyres

@ab-cv9be 2 жыл бұрын

Why are you talking about Lewis? He is GOAT, dont talk bad like that. You are delusional. Pay respect.

@armadillolover99 2 жыл бұрын

@@ab-cv9be *pssstt* They're not trash talking Lewis, it's just a joke and a great one at that if you understand the two references he's making

@ab-cv9be 2 жыл бұрын

@@armadillolover99 pssst, you feel good believing that ok.

@armadillolover99 2 жыл бұрын

@@ab-cv9be It’s just a reference to Lewis’s classic “Bono, my tires are gone” with a brilliant tie-in to Avengers Endgame but okay, keep going on thinking it’s disrespectful to him because you can’t take a joke

@__NKB__ 2 жыл бұрын

Id love to see the evolution of f1 seating positions. Im planning on replicating the 70’s through 80’s seating positions once i get a sim rig however everywhere i look its either a GT, upright position or knees eye level f1 position and never the in between.

@mirkof2068 2 жыл бұрын

Probably a unpopular opinion but the 2013 Tyre model was brilliant obviously the puncture was annoying but having 3 stops was a much better then 1 stop Tyre strategies that we have a lot of times now and since refueling isn't allowed in f1 Tyres that last very short make the races entertaining

@thearsenalmisfit2414 2 жыл бұрын

If you think pit stops make racing exciting I really don't know what to say. For ne it's cars battling on tge rdack not gaving to worry about ture ware alliwingvtgem to give it their all.for me the best tires were the grooved. They alliwed the drivers to shiw what they had. Tge tires of today gave turned F1 into a tire endurance series.

@its_only_karma7440 2 жыл бұрын

I think 2 stops AAND you can only use soft tyres that would be interesting because you can go all out but yet still have to get to the Pitstone window so all out racing but still have to be a bit carefull

@pinguim2870 11 ай бұрын

@@thearsenalmisfit2414 You good?

@donmcdougall4587 Жыл бұрын

Excellent summary and very informative. I appreciate the presentation style.

@WayApp 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing such an informative and entertaining piece!

@scotthix2926 2 жыл бұрын

"In [F1] your tires were twice as big and your car weighed half as much, now your car weighs twice as much and tires are half as wide" Days of thunder Question what year did the 1 set of tires rule for the whole race start and end?

@counterfit5 2 жыл бұрын

The last time was 2005 only

@pierre2898 2 жыл бұрын

The tyre blanket really was a great breakthrough.

@Alucard-gt1zf 2 жыл бұрын

@MAAHAQQ a necessary one

@leviathanops4524 2 жыл бұрын

An NFT disguised as "shares of a piece of art" wild

@w0033944 2 жыл бұрын

Rears were sometimes, though not always, wider in the 1950s IIRC.

@YHK_YT 2 жыл бұрын

damn he changed

@TheJamonLance 2 жыл бұрын

Many people mods their car heavily, making it undriveable on the road with stiff suspension, noisy exhaust, agressive engine maps... but they go to the track with road tyres. Best way to improve track time, without butchering a perfectly fine car, is to change the tyres.

@Simon_kristensen 2 жыл бұрын

It really just is estonishing how F1 develops there cars and that's why I love it

@mrdude9671 2 жыл бұрын

The Tyre width of the 2021 F1 car is like 1/2 the length of the entire 1949 F1 car .

@chestercallahan8856 2 жыл бұрын

0:07 "or almost continually" had me spitting my coffee out.

@chicobicalho5621 Жыл бұрын

Modern grooved tyres were not really an "evolution", but an attempt to level the field because M. Schumacher was running away with the deal. Grooved tyres were ultimately a retrogress.

@alexbitzan8747 2 жыл бұрын

F1 needs to stop regulating so strictly. The whole idea of the sport is that it is the pinnacle of engineering, but the teams are so limited. The teams should be able to use a variety of engines, more varied aero packages, etc

@peterruiz6117 2 жыл бұрын

That might price teams to where there are not enough cars on the field. And theres the speed/danger factor. But yea, the regs require 'MIT' engineers just to 'go'..

@richard35791 2 жыл бұрын

first safety reason second efficiency reason t

@aobrien2 2 жыл бұрын

Its a 'formula' its always been controlled. the more money that came in the more control was needed. There would be no F1 without limitations. Thats not even 'pinnacle' - real engineering genius is when funds are limited aswell as the rules

@johnnykipp8662 2 жыл бұрын

The problem partly is parity in racing to make it entertaining, and second they can engineer cars and tires that are beyond the limits of drivers G-Force limitations.

@David-mr3gw 2 жыл бұрын

great video!

@Firashelou 2 жыл бұрын

ahh Scott v2 ! what a legend !

@rubenssz 2 жыл бұрын

Metric system, please! Love you guys

@ATEC101 2 жыл бұрын

Go outside and look at the rims and tires on your vehicle. Metric rims and tires (diameter) failed in Europe back in the 80's.

@counterfit5 2 жыл бұрын

Section width (mm)/sidewall ratio(%)-rim diameter (in) is standard passenger car tire sizing

@Lenoch_ 2 жыл бұрын

LOVED THIS.

@artysanmobile 2 жыл бұрын

I’m super excited about the banning of tire blankets. It is a transfer of responsibility from pit crew to driver and I always like to see things go that direction.

@R4Z3RHD 2 жыл бұрын

Is there more of that Coulthard interview? Podcast somewhere or something?

@aaronarmstrong9776 2 жыл бұрын

Is that Monaco at 4:04? Man we were insane back then

@ace3146 2 жыл бұрын

Yup it is

@nikolaypanayotov2995 2 жыл бұрын

The old car looks like a go kart compared to modern ones

@JurijFedorov 2 жыл бұрын

F1: Pirelli please make shit tyres that degrade really fast. Pirelli: We are the experts.

@crazychimp1324 2 жыл бұрын

Pirelli tires are like bubble gum

@Crooked_Clown 2 жыл бұрын

I'm super ready for 2022 season

@AlexxCriss13 2 жыл бұрын

I'm all for the wheel covers. But also can we not? Coz those wheels look sick on that alpine

@Zulu1001 2 жыл бұрын

"Hamilton's tyre left the chat" 🤣 Love the new presenter 👍

@Runoratsu 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t really understand why the tyres aren’t built with the tread getting progressively harder (and thus less grippy) the further worn they are => less chance of them giving up, because they wear more slowly in the end, but a more dramatic falloff in performance which will force your hand in regards to strategy if you want to keep up.

@sandordelgado9812 2 жыл бұрын

Driver 16 uploaded a video. Surprise surprise

@ieatchickens 2 жыл бұрын

*Driver61

@sandordelgado9812 2 жыл бұрын

@@ieatchickens I know but this isn’t the usual guy.. hence why I said driver 16

@ieatchickens 2 жыл бұрын

@@sandordelgado9812 oh sorry

@hoodio 2 жыл бұрын

can you guys make a vid about matte vs glossy on f1 cars?

@F1ll1nTh3Blanks 2 жыл бұрын

I never really looked into the science of the move to grooves. I gotta do that some time.

@kotak4420 2 жыл бұрын

@MAAHAQQ if u dont mind me asking, why did they want less grip for cornering? For better racing?

@MrDieselakias 2 жыл бұрын

@9:25 do u also do podcasts?

@Setright 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting video, but there are few physics errors. I will mention one, to avoid nit-picking: Tyre speed versus airflow. The tyre describes a cycloid in relation to the ground, unless there is pure wheelspin. That means the top of the tyre is doing 200mph, when the car is travelling at 100mph. The bottom of the tyre, directly below the axle, is doing ZERO mph. That's part of what makes life so hard for tyres, they accelerate and decelerate on every rotation.

@Kolja1987 Жыл бұрын

Can you elaborate on how relation of airspeed on different sections of a tyre degrades it? My common sense tells me that that effect is but a small fraction of the wear that a firm contact with the ground creates. Do you have a source to back up your claim about changing airspeed affecting tyre lifetime?

@Setright Жыл бұрын

@@Kolja1987 what? I didn't make any claim.

@Kolja1987 Жыл бұрын

Your last paragraph seems to imply that the airflow would somehow impact the tyre life. If so, I'm looking to learn more, it's an interesting topic. Or did I misunderstand?

@Setright Жыл бұрын

@@Kolja1987 No, look up "cycloid". The stress on the tyre is structural, the acceleration experienced by the tyre is ongoing. Consider also that only the very middle of the contact patch is stationary. Just ahead and just behind, where there is still contact with the road, the tyre is being dragged. That wears the tread. The repeated acceleration leads to fatigue failure in the tyre carcass.

@DuartePMelo-mz5xc 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t Pirelli that removed the grooves from the tyres… it was still Bridgestone that did that and it was because the FIA changed the rules to get rid of the grooves

@drnerd 2 жыл бұрын

"Reduced the weight by 5kg per tyre" that's bonkers!!!

@sotaveturi 2 жыл бұрын

What

@pierre2898 2 жыл бұрын

Per corner?

@ydewit5597 2 жыл бұрын

You mean tire?

@pierre2898 2 жыл бұрын

@@ydewit5597 you mean tyre

@pierre2898 2 жыл бұрын

@@ydewit5597 tyre noun a rubber covering, typically inflated or surrounding an inflated inner tube, placed round a wheel to form a soft contact with the road

@fabriciolcc 2 жыл бұрын

Nelson Piquet pioneered the use of tents and later blankets to heat the tyres

@laurentwilliame2588 2 жыл бұрын

Speaking about the time lap graph, news about it?😎 Just can’t wait to have it on my living room…

@gabrielscott2927 2 жыл бұрын

This guy’s really lovely and interesting but a driver 61 video without Scott is like an F1 race without Kimi

@agrapanambunan5288 2 жыл бұрын

This is his son (I read in another comment)

@nerd888 2 жыл бұрын

@@agrapanambunan5288 it isn't lmfao 😂

@XxXnonameAsDXxX 2 жыл бұрын

@@agrapanambunan5288 bruh you've been played

@aidanblackhall1510 6 ай бұрын

wondering for Automation, did the 50s cars use radials or cross ply?

@FG-zw4kp 2 жыл бұрын

I keep hearing things like: greater contact patch = more grip But there is no "area" in this equations. Friction equals force times coefficient (material related, not contact area). It's very misleading to simplify it this way. Big tires are all about heat, not friction.

@MrBanaanipommi 2 жыл бұрын

there is shots and cars from Grand prix '37 too in this video

@markos9644 2 жыл бұрын

Cant make a f1 video about tyres without mentioning US 2005 😂😂😂

@owenreaney6864 2 жыл бұрын

Bro, at first I’m like what happened to you! 😂

@chicobicalho5621 Жыл бұрын

5:24 it is no secret the person who came up with the idea of warming up tyres was Nelson Piquet in 1978, during the British F3 championship, which he won by a vast margin. However, since the idea of warming up just the tyres hadn't been quite refined, the entire car was placed inside a metal container, and a huge industrial heater blew hot air inside this box, heating up the entire car, so sometimes Piquet would be siting inside a blistering hot cockpit before a race, which, more likely than not he would end up winning.

@ingocernohorsky 2 жыл бұрын

Have there been rain/wet tyres before slicks?

@kennethabshire9669 2 жыл бұрын

Pleaseeeeee do a video of how good max and Lewis are and why they are always ahead of the field by 20 secs each race 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@ab-cv9be 2 жыл бұрын

Lewis is great. Crashtappen? No.

@jakethesnake6430 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video

@kenmichigwan234 2 жыл бұрын

F1 gearbox next please😁

@coldforgedcowboy 2 жыл бұрын

@Driver61... What limits the width of the tire that F1 cars can use?

@paoaiipi5580 2 жыл бұрын

Sainz will be world champion next season in calling it

@timcattley1056 2 жыл бұрын

No comments made in this vid concerning the introduction of the radial tyre to F1 in 1977 and then with Ferrari adopting this technology in 1978. The radial was so successful that Jody Scheckter and Gilles Villeneuve went on to come 1st and 2nd in the 1979 Drivers Championship for Ferrari thus ending Goodyear's dominance.

@JoeKnaggs 2 жыл бұрын

The 2 or 3 stop races were awesome to be honest, it's a shame the tyres were being destroyed. However I wish F1 let all 5 compounds be used in a race, would be interesting in terms of strategy

@Chuck59ish 2 жыл бұрын

Best video I've seen on F1 tyres.

@thearsenalmisfit2414 Жыл бұрын

the reason thebridgestone tires were not effected at the indy race was because they knew that the newly resufaced track was alot harder on the tires when loaded. they got this info from their Indy car operation , Michelin had no such info at their disposal so the were caught off garde.

@maxmustermann369 2 жыл бұрын

interesting topic, i wonder what happens to all used up ones. are they just burned like regular car tyres?

@josedacunhafilho 2 жыл бұрын

Nelson Piquet came up with the idea of warming up the tyres while racing F3, especially in cold climates. Except back then, in 1976 and 77 he hadn't considered electric blankets yet, so the solution was to place the entire car inside a metal container, and heat the container with a large industrial propane heater, so at the starting line, the whole car would be boiling hot!

@stevenschuster 2 жыл бұрын

Black Gold!

@austinnash5666 2 жыл бұрын

Albon the Tyre whisperer needs to be a tyre dev

@JACKTHEKILLERNOOOB Жыл бұрын

DIDNT expect Coulthard to appear

@laddaevolta 2 жыл бұрын

Why you look different

@mikeymasi 2 жыл бұрын

I think this is the other fella

@YHK_YT 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeymasi no i think he shaved

@keio5274 2 жыл бұрын

Pirelli didn't remove the grooves in 2011 when they got the contract. Bridgestone a were running slicks in 2010. Idk about seasons before then, but pirelli didn't not bring or reintroduce slicks to F1 in 2011

@smokeduv 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. He even said it, but then changed it a few seconds later 🤦🏻‍♂️. Slick tires were reintroduced in 2009, the year Bridgestone said they were stepping out, but they stayed on that year, so F1 had Bridgestone slick tires on that year

@ShivSai123456 2 жыл бұрын

wow u got DC!

@wrabbes422 10 ай бұрын

bro has a thumbnail like that and speaks about the tyres

@Kevin-jb2pv Жыл бұрын

If there's one thing I've noticed from watching people talk about sports, it's that the corporate overlords who run everything are some of the most out of touch, callous, and universally hated people on earth.

@718Insomniac 2 жыл бұрын

Oooo, is someone on their honeymoon? Haha Congrats again to Driver61. New fella ain't so bad either. Edit: Nvm, there is Scotties face =]

@counterfit5 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call the piece of debris Bottas hit in Baku "tiny". It managed to shred his tire almost instantly

@ChaplainDMK 2 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video about why aero, big tires etc. werent used in the 50s? It seems obvious to get some aero and bigger tires if you're literally understeering cars through corners at 200 kph. Was it that material science couldn't make tires that big that would survive the forces? Or was the increased drag of large tires and aero too much for the engines od the era? Was it the track design - long fast corners instead of sharp short ones?

@BodyDestruction 2 жыл бұрын

Hindsight is 20/20, nobody had the foresight to put an upside down airplane wing on a car yet. Downforce simply wasn't a thing back then, it was all about light weight and streamlining, and the narrow tires certainly helped. The first wind tunnel tests on cars didn't happen until the 1960s, and downforce didn't impact racing until the 1970s (Lotus F1). The 50's was when Crosleys were winning races because of disc brakes! In 1953, the first European car with disc brakes (Austin Healey 100S) went on sale, and the Jaguar Type C won that year 24h of Le Mans as the only car on the grid with disc brakes. Nowadays even Bugattis' *brake heat shields generate downforce*.

@sevegarza Жыл бұрын

Also I don’t know if they had started using radial tires yet in the 50s. Inner tube tires were the norm for all cars back and you couldn’t get low profile tires with inner tube tires.

@yazanturkman5002 2 жыл бұрын

I expect a wider tires in the future

@source9264 Жыл бұрын

7:37 basically todays softs almost

@TheHypnotstCollector 2 жыл бұрын

Tires are single biggest performance improvement for cars. My 64 Triumph Spitfire supposedly did 1g on cornering on 5.60x13's. Now I have 175/60x13's on her. Still kinda slo tho

@tryhardfinessedyou 2 жыл бұрын

3:12 Englebert sign. They did actually exist. Lol

@kristianharalambiev7685 Жыл бұрын

We want more scarbs!

@hexgraphica 2 жыл бұрын

92 is the last season with fat rear tyres until 2017

@SleepySriracha 2 жыл бұрын

Need more F1 2022 contents please

@diverd8347 2 жыл бұрын

QUESTION: Why have a sole tyre supplier at all? doesn't this ensure the end of tyre technology development? A solution may be: You may only use your own tyre once during a race but then must make a least one switch to a pirelli type from the compound range during the race for a minimum of 10 laps. That way type development still moves forward, but pit stops still happen? thoughts. OR you may only use one set of your own tyres for a maximum of 15 laps during the race then must make at least one switch to the pirelli compound race. that way tyre development moves forward adds extra spice to quali.

@SMhMrMurhpysLaw 2 жыл бұрын

i think it was a mixture of the 05 incident and how much of a role tires play in overall pace. if a team gets an exclusivity deal to use a specific compound for their team only they can easily make up more pace than benz had in the turbo hybrid era

@scotthix2926 2 жыл бұрын

In nascar we had a tire war and it was bad and scary and dangerous. The war meant making the tire softer at the expense of durablity. If the expected loads were off then the right front would blow and send you striaght into the wall.

@MrAlbertamike 2 жыл бұрын

Perelli had standard car tires blow up.

@thearsenalmisfit2414 2 жыл бұрын

The 2010 race in Motreal was one of the worst things that has happened to F1 as far as development is concerned. In a 1 off race that was not the norm there whole series was transformed from the peak of car and engine development into a Tire endurance series where the dars actually cannot complete a race as quickly as they did in 2004. The Imola race winnier in 2004 completed the race quicker dispite the fact he had to negotiate an extra chicane every lap costing him a second a lap. He was able to go flat out yhe whole race where as today it's all about looking after the tires. We have not see a truly epic drive since Schumacher's France 2004 win and never will until SRS us gone and the tires can be pushed to the limit for more than 3 laps in a row and god help you if your trying to follow someone to make a pass as this increases the wear rate. That makes racing real exciting as the following car has to give up as he has no grip left.

@spikespa5208 2 жыл бұрын

That last sentence, sarcasm? If not, where's the excitement if the pursuing car has to give up due to tear wear when it gets close?

@LtNduati 2 жыл бұрын

Personally I think the worst thing Pirelli ever did for it's business was become the only tire manufacturer for F1 when the tires were designed to go off after a set period of time. I was born in 1996, the first F1 race I ever saw start to finish was the 2007 Chinese GP. When I got my first real car in 2018, a 2018 BMW 428i xDrive I negotiated into the deal a new set of tires because it was on Pirelli's. I had Continental DSW's for the life of that car. I wasn't able to negotiate the same on my latest car, a 2018 Audi A5, and the first thing I want to do this spring, before even getting a paint correction and ceramic coat, is getting it off of the Pirelli's it's got on now, and they were brand new when I bought this car at the start of October. I tried to not let the bad taste Pirelli left in my mouth as an F1 fan, but in the warmer months at the end of summer they're adequate at best, but once it drops below 55 or 60 degrees (f) they're soooo hard and take awhile to return to normal I really hate the way they feel

@Ho3n3r 2 жыл бұрын

Pirelli weren't responsible for removing the grooves - Bridgestone, in their final 2 years in 2009-10, ran slicks as well. It was the years of the most boring strategies in history, pitting from options within 5 laps and doing the rest of the race on primes.

@chicobicalho5621 Жыл бұрын

I am all for innovative ideas in F1, but... in this day and age of environmental awareness, and people like Hamilton and Vettel vouching for a "greener F1", perhaps this is time to create a new rule where warming up tyres is no longer allowed, and all tyres would have to be at "room temperature", so drivers had to manage the cold tyres, and warm them up on the track. Imagine of every time a car pitted, and left with cold tyres? Game changer,and excitement guaranteed! I believe we would all be shocked to learn the footprint and electrical bill of the yearly usage of all tyre blankets for the 10 teams.

@Yoyo34 2 жыл бұрын

Callum McIntyre, talking about tyres. LOL Thank you for a good F1 related video that did not talk about controversies of the last race of 2021.

@N3therWolf 2 жыл бұрын

@@leyuvanim5913 reported

@marko4480 Жыл бұрын

So with cold tyres they drive it like a normal car because of grip

@joeg5414 4 ай бұрын

The rubber couldn't handle the load?

@GigaFloyd 2 жыл бұрын

I'll save you 13 minutes, M O N E Y.

@litthowius1162 2 жыл бұрын

i think scott mansell is doing it betyer

@phunkym8 2 жыл бұрын

i alwas wonder how these slim wheels from the 50s and 60s didnt just snap off in the corners

@counterfit5 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of thick spokes under incredible tension

@SHAdow98V 2 жыл бұрын

So basically like in rally when it started it was all about the passion of racing as fast as possible no matter what,it was all about breaking the limits and setting new standards,then higherups with huge influence and money decide when and what happens and how long the damn tires can last XD,its sickening honestly,i know some regulations are there for safety yes but still some are there just to create "a more exciting show" like when Pirelli was forced ot make tires that last less in order for the drivers to make more pit stops and the predictible outcome of a race to be more random -_-