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.
@@Ale-bj7ndpossibly just need to put them through a heat cycle to burn off the chemicals on the surface after production? I guess that means an oven unless someone has a spare F1 car to do a few practice starts🤣
Well the tyres arent the problem, the actual problem is the spray and thanks to F1 being most focused on safety, they wouldn't want another Belgium 1998 happening.
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.
I think they dropped the 'net 0 by 2030' goal because I don't see it anywhere. It used to be visible behind the podium finishers during interviews but it's not anymore.
Same with the calendar. The fact that we have Monaco, hop to the other side of the world for Canada, and then back for Spain makes no sense at all if you’re pushing such a message
@@Racemannetje That's because F1 teams have more than one copy of everything. While one shipment goes from Monaco to Spain, another shipment goes from Miami to Canada. That's why geographically close curcuits are not next to each other on the calendar. To learn more, watch the video *"The insane logistics of Formula 1".*
@@RacemannetjeCanada didn’t want to change the terms of their contract. When it’s renewed, I’m sure the date will change to fit in either the stream lined calendar.
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 :)
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.
@@mikecrimlis3366 I remember the winner was extremely happy. Don't remember who it was though. He was celebrating his ass off and hardly anybody was there.
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
@@chrisallen2005 You are the kind of person who thinks a V8 engine block coffee table that doubles as a wine bottle holder is *not* attractive in the living room, alright m8, thx for the interesting info, have a nice day.
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.
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!
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
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. 😉
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,
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.)?
Tires came from materials in the Earth and eventually return to the Earth. The cycle of life, one of the fundamental laws of the universe, decay of all things, can't be broken. Think, instead of reacting to what you're told to be afraid of in life...
Think about how much tire pollution is created by EVs. They're much heavier than ICE vehicles and run through tires much quicker and that wear ends up in the environment.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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."
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
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.
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
They should be allowed to Mix/Match any combination for more tactical options or at least tires of the same compound. Now one flat spot from a hard break manouver ruins the entire set. That is hard to understand.
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.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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?
It's a big misconception, it's just where the tyres are organised and sent out from - not just for Formula 1 but many other categories. All my info is taken from my meetings with Pirelli, and those who currently work within the paddock!
No competitor wants to reconstruct Pirelli's awful tires. Michelin and Bridgestone have better racing products that can withstand many fastest laps. 🤷♂️
It’s been this way for several years. There was a time when, Goodyear and Bridgestone also raced F1. But it got very expensive with the tire companies competing against each other and Goodyear was the first one to leave the sport.
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
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
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!
I think you're referring to MONGRIP who are selling wrist bands from Michael Schumacher's 1996 Monza tyre? The tyre provider back then was Goodyear but I was only referring to F1 tyres since Pirelli became the official tyre supplier for all Formula 1 teams!
I saw some dummy tyres in some car services so I think you can get some dummy looking 100% like original. so check again...If you are looking for genuine ones I wish you good luck
They already get enough, and it is part of the strategy. From testing the teams usually know what tyres are needed for what tracks and what conditions. Also, different compounds are used for different races.
13 sets of tyre per car per weekend is a huge waste, and creates a lot of carbon emission. They should make the tyre more durable like 2005. And only allocate 4 sets of tyre(2 prime 2 option) per car per week.
At each Competition where a sprint session is scheduled, each driver may use no more than twelve (12) sets of dry-weather tyres, five (5) sets of intermediate tyres and two (2) sets of wet-weather tyres during a Competition. At each Competition where a sprint session is not scheduled and additional tyres are not made available under Article 30.1a)iii), each driver may use no more than thirteen (13) sets of dry-weather tyres, five (5) sets of intermediate tyres and two (2) sets of wet-weather tyres during a Competition. At each Competition where a sprint session is not scheduled and additional tyres are made available under Article 30.1a)iii), each driver may use no more than twelve (12) sets of dry-weather tyres, five (5) sets of intermediate tyres and two (2) sets of wet-weather tyres during a Competition.
