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Post by marron on Jul 20, 2008 22:13:27 GMT
Just to clear something up:
Someone asked me about the different tyres used in F1 and although i can usually tell people about the various types and how to recognise them i have a mental block.
Am i right in saying that there are 4 main tyres:
Hard
Soft
Intermediate
Full Wet
You have to use the hard and soft during each race?
And the soft tyre is the only one that is instantly recognisable from a distance because it has the white stripe through one of the grooves?
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Post by schumi on Jul 20, 2008 22:33:13 GMT
Yes, you have to use both compounds during the race, unless it's raining, and the soft tyres have white lines down them.
Each team has 14 sets of dry tyres to use over the weekend (hard and soft), 4 sets of wet tyres, and 3 sets of extreme wet tyres. If a race is started under the safety car the teams must use extreme wets. They can use any compound during qualifying and the race, but during practise the track has to be deemed wet by the race director in order for those tyres to be used.
And currently the only tyre manufacturer used is Bridgestone.
Edit: you can tell the wet and extreme wets by looking at the grooves.
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Post by marron on Jul 20, 2008 22:35:04 GMT
Cheers for clearing it up.............seems i described it right - in a 'round about' way  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2008 9:44:11 GMT
Yes, you have to use both compounds during the race, unless it's raining, and the soft tyres have white lines down them. I understood though, there are actually four types of slicks, from which Bridgestone chooses two compounds to use at each GP (according to perceived conditions). |
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Post by Genghis on Jul 21, 2008 11:38:18 GMT
Yes, you have to use both compounds during the race, unless it's raining, and the soft tyres have white lines down them. I understood though, there are actually four types of slicks, from which Bridgestone chooses two compounds to use at each GP (according to perceived conditions). Would make sense after what happened in the US GP in 2005 - even if that was a different tyre manufacturer. |
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