Yes Pirelli has anounced its deffinative range of rubber wear with different color markings for different conditions: Hard - Silver (durable) medium - White (originals) Soft - Yellow (Banana flavoured) S Soft - Red (Featherlight) Inters - Blue (ribbed); Wet - Orange (For our pleasure)
Pirelli have finally revealed their colour marking for the tyres. Looks good - so glad there is no green! please log in to view this image Hard - Silver Medium - White Soft - Yellow Super Soft - Red Intermediate - Blue Wet - Orange
Sorry bando im using my mobile so i didnt see ur post (being an idiot, I locked my room and cant find key). just close/delete this thread
More info here: Pirelli Tyres on the BBC I'm glad we've got lots of different colours this season, it helps to differentiate. Whilst it was possible before, it''ll be much easier, especially on a drying track, when previously it was hard from a distance to tell between the dry, inters and wet.
LOL, Jose is in jail!!!!!!! gotta love you. Why did you lock your room? ... thinking ... Wow I wish I never thought...
Nick, Havent Pirelli already said that they wont use tyres which are next to each other? What will Super(Extra?) Hard tyres be?
The two compounds will never be used at the same race. Pirelli have to have a two compound gap between the ones they bring to a race. So the hard and mediums will never be used together. Its hard and soft or medium and super soft I think. Actually, that makes the similarity between the colours of the hard and medium tyres better, as you can easily tell which is the prime tyre.
The colours will help the viewer and are therefore a very good idea. It's perhaps the most obvious improvement Bridgestone could (and should) have made in order to help the show, instead of which their pale green 'Options' encouraged lame-Legard to feel the need to remind us every 4.37 seconds.
Nice picture José. Would be worth putting it in the other thread too, especially as it might be better to delete this duplicated thread.
Not sure what I think about the new colours. The yellow looks best IMO, I suppose this more practical but I had no issues with the Bridgestone system. Hopefully we'll see a bit of blue and orange in Melbourne.
Scattered showers predicted for Friday, clear on Saturday and Sunday. I'd take a Friday washout to be honest, less setup time = more unpredictability. Should keep us guessing until Malaysia(?).
Woops! Just testing! Yes: merge is a better idea. Is it merged now? [Edit: I see that someone has made it so. Please ignore my redundant question]
To bring an old thread back to life. They are apparently thinking of changing the silver colouring to make it more visible. They haven't used green and that would stand out?
The dry tyres have a diameter of 660 millimetres. The tread is 245 millimetres wide at the front and 325 millimetres wide at the back. The wet tyres have a bigger diameter of 670 millimetres, to raise the car and avoid standing water. The tread is 225 millimetres wide at the front and 325 millimetres wide at the back. The diameter of the intermediate tyre is slightly smaller at 665 millimetres, although the same tread widths as the wet tyre apply. A wet Pirelli tyre will disperse more than 60 litres of water per second when travelling at 300kph. Pirelli will produce 50,000 Formula 1 tyres over the course of the season, bringing around 1,800 tyres to every race. All the tyres are made in Pirelli's state of the art motorsport facility at Izmit, Turkey, just outside Istanbul. At races, Pirelli will use 15 trucks and employ around 50 people, including one engineer allocated to every team. Each front tyre weighs around nine kilograms. The rears, being larger, are a little heavier. The operating temperature of each tyre is in the region of 90 degrees Celsius. The harder the tyre compound, the longer it takes to reach peak operating temperature. I took this from the Pirelli website, so should be correct.
