Silverstone tire failures

The British F1 GP is on right now. They are blowing tires like crazy. Always the right rear. 4 so far.

 

I think I remember at least two of them being left side. Anyway, major embarrassment for Pirelli.

 

Yep, It's the left side not right. I think the last one was a harder compound as well. They are looking at the inside shoulders for cuts. They think they are cutting them when they hit the curbs.

 

I wonder if they still have an amazing military airshow before this race? Probably an hour long and centered over the grandstands. It was very cool:up:

 

Yep, crazy stuff. Feel bad for Hamilton.
Cheers, Lee S.

 

I'm still in awe of 2.5 second pit stops...

 

The Force India crew did two 3 second stops within five seconds of each other. Very impressive, they had two sets of tires out there ready to go and two front jack guys that alternated.

 

Great ending, battles everywhere.

 

one of the best races of the year

 

Man, the last 6 laps had everything a racing fan could want! Even another tire blow out!

The post race press conference with Hembery was pretty funny, dude looked totally uncomfortable...

 

( in my best local redneck voice )

Hooooooooly Skunk sway-yut

 

Fuggin bs man. When Hamilton's tire went he was right at the bridge thankfully he caught it.

 

Pirelli better get it right next race. Boycott talk if they don't.

 

They had their hands tied with limits on testing, which was just lifted last I heard.

 

Very different reactions (at least publicly) from the F1 drivers vs. the AMA racers when tire failures occur.

 

Kimi being Kimi.

 

How do you use a tire wrong? lol... I can understand jumping curbs, or having bodywork to tight and rubbing on in high G corners, but what else is there? Too much camber?

 

tire pressures?

 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/sport/motorsport/formula-one-pirelli-tires-germany/index.html

link to Pirelli response

 

Ahh some teams were flipping tires from side to side... makes more sense now.