Whatever the reason for the Singapore slip - and most point to the tyre pressure legality issues of the previous race - the Mercedes steamroller was back on track in Japan, going on to wrap up consecutive drivers' and team titles ahead of the final race. ...
Moreover, not all the drivers may have completed the lap time with the same tyre compound. For example, a driver who passed in Q3 with Medium compound and wasn’t able to run in Q3, has a laptime gap against the driver who ran on a Soft compound. Because of that, the compound effe...
F1 has taken steps in recent years to try and make things easier for fans, such as simplifying the names of the tyre compounds provided by Pirelli. Tyre suppliers have changed several times over the years with Pirelli taking over from Bridgestone in 2009. In 2018,the Italian su...
Q: We’ve got the same tyre compounds this weekend that we had in Monaco. What lessons have been learned from your Monaco strategy with Lewis Hamilton? TW:Quite some lessons. We got it wrong in Monaco, in our assessment of how long the tyre would last, so that was an important step ...
The lower profile tyres also have the added benefit of reducing the sidewall deflection changes and the resulting aerodynamic wake effect that occurs. The teams spend a lot of effort on simulating the airflow regimes around the tyre shapes and interactions with the car bodywo...
Meanwhile, the current period for teams to be notified of which tyre compounds will be available for which race – nine weeks for European events, 15 for non-European ones – has been slashed dramatically to just two weeks for any event. This will help t...
A rubber compound for the preparation of pneumatic tyre parts comprising at least a crosslinkable unsaturated- chain polymer base, a filler, a vulcanization system and a dispersing agent comprising, in turn, a functionalized lignin having a plurality of functionalizations of the general formula (I)...
Whatever the reason for the Singapore slip - and most point to the tyre pressure legality issues of the previous race - the Mercedes steamroller was back on track in Japan, going on to wrap up consecutive drivers' and team titles ahead of the final race. ...
To do this, we need to try to put all the drivers in the same “conditions,” which means the same car, same track condition, tyre compound etc. The first step of the process is to identify which lap times to take into consideration. In order to have as many drivers as possible ...
Q: We’ve got the same tyre compounds this weekend that we had in Monaco. What lessons have been learned from your Monaco strategy with Lewis Hamilton? TW: Quite some lessons. We got it wrong in Monaco, in our assessment of how long the tyre would last, so that was an ...