How is a f1 tyre made
How Is An F1 Tyre Made?
Corelli have an extremely difficult job
in the world of Formula One
creating seven dry compounds of tire as
well as two wet ones that degrade at a
perfect rate to create both exciting
races and safety for the drivers easy
right but how are they created it's not
as simple as making it round and sticky
that's for sure the home of Pirelli is
located in Milan where a whopping 150
research engineers concentrate solely on
Formula one the first port of call is
the physics and chemistry labs where
they test the new compounds and
structures in Romania Pirelli have its
own dedicated motorsport factory and
another backup factory in Turkey this is
where they take a virtual model of the
tire and turn it into reality a physical
prototype with the compounds produced in
there set a motor Annie's plant in Italy
time to put the tyre through its paces
where the poor tire will be put through
every race condition imaginable and
stress to the absolute limit using
sophisticated machines
once they pass these tests they are sent
out to experience a real circuit the
tyres that successfully make it through
the vigorous track testing are then
eligible to be part of the final
selection for an f1 weekend let's take a
look inside the factory where our good
friends Jim and Bob are hard at work
Jim creates the shoulder and the carcass
of the tire while simultaneously Bob is
working on creating the belt and tread
pattern the key ingredients in this
process are natural rubber synthetic
rubber and other artificial fibres once
Jim and Bob have done their job we move
down to Craig who has a key role in
production we're a Formula One tire is
born what an emotional moment not only
the humans have passports for f1 tyres
have one ingrained to these contain all
the information you could possibly need
about the tire and how much it's been
used from birth to race day time to get
your chef's hat on as the next step is
the vulcanization period which cooks the
tire this sales the barcode in as well
as determining the definitive
characteristics of the compounds and
structure the final part of the process
is a visual check weight check and an
x-ray scan of the tire a random sample
of tires are then taken to ensure
they're good to go via a destructive
test once all of this is completed the
tire is ready to be used in a race or
testing session the competition tires
suit in other racing series go through a
very similar if not identical process to
be used all over the world are you
prepared to be absolutely dazzled with
information about a Pirelli f1 tire well
strap yourself in tight and get ready
because what you're about to witness
will blow your mind the Pirelli f1 tire
has over a hundred elements in each tire
with 18 structural components if you are
an expert and wanted to make one for
yourself and it takes you approximately
five hours of work fancy little workout
well if you want to lift a front wheel
and tire it'll be around eight and a
half kilograms which is the equivalent
of just under four laptops if you're
feeling hench then maybe lift the rear
wheel and tire which is around nine and
a half kilograms or seven golden
retriever puppies and one sultry Grand
Prix about 1,800 tyres are taken which
is sixteen thousand two hundred
kilograms or 13.5 McLaren Senna's worth
if you're wondering which you probably
weren't in laboratory testing the
scientists and engineers test the tire
at up to four hundred and fifty
kilometres an hour which is ridiculous
what about testing the tires on curbs
Matt well I'm glad you asked two hundred
and sixty kilometers an hour imagine
hitting a curve at two hundred and sixty
kilometres an hour that's gonna hurt
what about temperature testing a hundred
and fifty degrees is what the tread
pattern is exposed to these poor tyres
get abused text eight zero one zero one
to donate five pounds per month to stop
the tire testing abuse what else would
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