What Happens To F1 Tyres After A Race?

In each Formula 1

race

they use over 1200 individual tires and these are key to If a driver wants to win a

race

or simply be faster than his own teammates, oh sh, CL crashes, this is a deep dive into the world of Formula 1 Tires because as soon as the checkered flag falls and the race ends all of these are taken off and never seen again but this is

what

happens

to Formula 1 tires after a race but let's give it a try Let's take a step back and first understand why. Many tires are used in each race. Now, each driver participating in the championship is allocated 15 sets of tires per round provided by official tire partner Pelli.

The amount allocated is a mix of different tire compounds that can change rounds. vary depending on location and also weather conditions, but

what

you will typically find first are eight sets of red soft tires that will give you the fastest lap time, but their lifespan is limited to a handful of laps before they wear out. grip the ground. The circuit begins to wear out. Next you will have two sets of white hard tires, which is the slowest compound you will get with the slick tires; however, its useful life on the track can be enormous. Then you will get three sets of yellow media.

Tire that is a kind of mixture of the two compounds, so it is not the fastest on the circuit, but the tire will be able to do more laps and, due to the potential 5 and 1 half hours they will have on the track each weekend career. Teams need a few quantities of tires to run, but not too many, so they have an endless supply. If race organizers determine that the race is wet, teams may use the same tire for the entire race as if it were a full set of wet tires. Tire that is designed to have huge grooves to help disperse water while it is raining and then a set of intermediate tires that are used more when it stops raining but still has water on the track and has slightly better grip where you have dry patches On the track now, when the checkered flag falls and the race ends and the end of the race weekend approaches, all tires have to return to their original state, even those that were not used during the practice sessions. or the race, however, the rims and their covers belong to the teams that travel around the world with a car, but not the rubber tire to help the teams and PRs keep track of the tires, each has a unique number associated in a barcode during the tire manufacturing process, the governing body of Formula 1, the FIA ​​has a unique number assigned to each individual tire, the FIA ​​then randomized all of those numbers and the put in sets for the teams and then all that.

The information is then sent back to curious onlookers so they know who they have been delivered to, so that when the tires arrive at the fulfillment center in the UK, they are scanned using a barcode to log into the system and know which tire belongs to which driver of which team and when the tire is first added to the wheel well, inside there is a sensor that measures the temperature of the tire and its pressure, so this barcode also You can link that sensor to the tire and wheel well, which can also act as a check inventory, this way both the teams and the FIA ​​can keep track of which tires have been used so far and thus not accidentally mix up one set of tires and this relates to another rule that when you get to change your tires for a pit stop, all four tires must be changed for a completely different set, so you can't use the front two from one set and two others. from another game, then the race ends and all the tires and rims will be returned to the original assembly area which is located inside the Formula 1 Paddock.

Now, as the name suggests, the nice assembly area is where all the tires eventually arrive to the track to be placed on the tires. These usually come in shipping containers that are kept at about 25° this way the tires are already at optimal temperature when they arrive at the circuit, so within the assembly area, in addition to adding them to the rims, this is also where the tires are removed, everything is done. on site so they have more control over the tire air pressure and can monitor any vibration from any imbalance from the moment it is added to the wheel rim, so it is pretty standard than Formula 1 wheels are unbalanced for the first time, so to fix this problem quickly, The machine will tell you how much weight you need to counter and hit on the wheel rim and then these tires will be ready to deliver to the Formula 1 teams and then of course , at the end of the race weekend, this is where all the The wheels come back to now, let's say a team has a spare set of wet tires or a spare set of intermediate tires, these can be removed and reuse again in a future session mainly because they are a much harder compound and unfortunately are typically used in colder conditions.

This is not the same case for dry tires. These soft, medium or hard tires, regardless of whether they were used in a session or not, are cut up and then shredded and placed in the back of a storage container and then these containers are sent back to the UK, this It might be a site that annoys Formula 1 fans, but let me explain why they do this and why they can't just give it away to Formula 1 fans like me. Let's first address why they can't reuse the site. Dry slick tires, even if they have not been used during the racing session, these dry tires are first subjected to air pressure while they are cold and once the rubber has expanded and sits at the correct pressure, that is when they are rotated thermal blankets.

This is done so that when the car is about to leave the garage or make a pit stop, the air inside is already at a warm temperature and with a precise pressure, this is because if it left with cold tires and without any heat treatment while driving Naturally, the tires will get very hot and the air pressure inside will be even higher and could even cause the tires to not work properly, due to the heat from the treatment activating the chemicals inside, which if it cools down again and then reheats then it could also become a safety issue since its structural integrity has changed, but I get it.

I would love to have my own Formula One race tire at home, whether it was used in the race or not. It would be a great souvenir to have, but unfortunately, for various reasons, this cannot happen. The first is that PRI is only the official tire supplier for the Formula 1 championship. This is actually all run by Formula 1 and the FIA, so they would need approval from both in the first place. the governing body and the championship, secondly, it is also about protecting its own intellectual property and by this what I mean is that py is not the only clothing supplier in the world that would love to work with Formula 1, which is simply one of the reasons why PRI conducts its own private test days with Formula 1 teams to get their feedback on how they can constantly improve their tires each season and therefore whether their new Formula 1 race was available to be purchased by anyone in a The competitor could buy that diagnostic in a laboratory to find out how it was made, what materials were made into the rubber, which could ultimately threaten his business with being replaced in the Formula One and at the end of the day you just want to do your best. racing tires out there and it's simply easier not to take the risk now, once all the tires have been accounted for and packaged, these are shipped back to the UK where the tires are crushed into small granules (now many racing fans Formula 1) There, myself included, I have tried to investigate the location from where Peri sent the Formula 1 tires back to the UK, perhaps hoping to go there one day and perhaps try to steal one of these tires of Formula 1 before they are destroyed.

Little balls like little souvenirs. Now some people have found a location in Oxford and I can happily say that this is not the recycling center, this is a fulfillment center and please don't go there. The misconception is that this is where all of Formula 1 is located. The tires are returned to where, in reality, it is the other way around. This is purely the logistics center where all the tires are initially shipped and then registered in the system and then shipped from here to go to all the races. but again, this is not where all the Formula 1 tires come back after a race, this is done at a completely separate recycling center which deals with a bunch of other different tires that come in, not just Formula 1 related, These small rubber granules are then sent to the cement. factories and burned at extreme temperatures to use as fuel, which is funny, because of the high temperature at which it is burned, it does not create any pollution, so if you want to have your own Formula 1 tire, I can give you some. recommendations but first of all I need to give you a little disclaimer if you see any listing for sa selling you a Formula One tire it is most likely not a real Formula 1 tire it is a display tire that is still created by pelli and Just like you have display models for Formula 1 cars, you have exactly the same for tires.

P produced show car tires that look exactly the same and feel the same, but adj only that they are only displayed for display. PR still makes Formula 1 tires for people who own Formula 1 cars, so if you want a tire the best thing to do is ask someone who owns a Formula 1 car privately. The only good recommendation I can give you is to use a website like F1 Authentics and this is in no way This is an advertisement, I'm not getting paid to say this, but they basically pre-create wind tunnel tires that are used for the racing teams.

Formula 1 when they do their wind tunnel testing and chances are you've already seen these tires because they were used as a survey. Position award for when drivers are fastest and qualify and because this is already part of Prelly's business they can sell it through a website like all Authentics but if you want to find out more about how Formula 1 works , why not consider subscribing? my name is myus thank you very much for watching and see you next time