Sentences with phrase «of rubber tyre»

Linking two of the three exhibition rooms, Sky Horizons (1973/2015), by Roberto Chabet, comprises several white wooden frames with strips of rubber tyre stretched between them, evoking flying birds or clouds.

Not exact matches

No, we had no clue what Kvyat was saying during FP1, but apparently it was about a small piece of tyre rubber wrapped around his car's antenna.

In GP2 the tyres run out of life very quickly and need to be treated with caution, but in F1 this year the Pirelli rubber can be pushed much harder, and Giovinazzi admitted he was too conservative thanks to his lack of experience.

It's also thanks to there being more Pirelli rubber hitting the track because of the 25 % wider tyres for 2017.

Hysteresis, where a material's performance relies upon its history — like the weakening of the rubber in a car tyre due to repeated use — is also a sticking point for Eva Unger, a postdoc at Lund University, Sweden.

Their robot is packaged within a single wheel: its motor, battery and controls remain stationary in the centre of the wheel while a rubber tyre rotates around the outside.

We drink coffee and cocoa, eat the fruits of citrus, mango and banana trees, flavour food with cloves, vanilla and cinnamon, nibble cashew and brazil nuts, build houses with wood from tropical pines and drive on rubber tyres.

The weight of the flywheel would have to be trebled, Parry says, because more energy is lost in a bus's rubber tyres than in the steel wheels of a tram.

At that time the brand manufactured tyres for the army and invented a revolutionary process, the vulcanization of rubber and canvas.

This year the latter boasts the extra advantage of Michelin hosting a free tyre pressure check just before you board the tunnel to cross to France: it's a long way to Le Mans, but with Michelin's vast experience of the 24 - hour race, you can be sure they'll know how best to look after your road car's rubber.

However, this car also has a set of OZ Racing Ultraleggera alloys (about # 1000) wrapped in Michelin Cup 2 rubber (around # 500 for a set of four fitted tyres).

Added to this increased tyre strength, Nissan also chooses to inflate its rubber with Nitrogen instead of compressed air.

The latest version of Michelin's super sticky 20 - inch Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyre is standard fit in most territories, including the UK, although some markets will use Dunlop rubber.

We surmise that the optional Corsa tyre would probably be the rubber of choice.

Fitted with regular Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyres, as opposed to more extreme Pilot Cup trackday rubber, it has a rare level of delicacy and allows you to work up to and beyond the limits of mechanical grip without it being a white - knuckle ride.

The width of the rubber has increased over the old 650S, the fronts have gone from 235 to 245 on a 19 - inch wheel and at the rear a 305 section tyre is fitted to a 20 - inch wheel.

However, a full set of 195/40 R17 Goodyear EfficientGrip Performance tyres, the rubber fitted to our test car, cost just less than # 400, fitted.

It rides well, as if it's riding on more rubber than the sidewall of the 195/40 R17 tyres actually gives you.

By the time the larger tyres have been fitted the weight of the Schnitzer wheel and tyre combination is the same as the standard car, but to get that much extra rubber on the road without a weight penalty is a good effort.

The amount of power you can deploy, the lateral load a chassis can withstand, the amount of brake pressure you can apply is all mediated by your tyres — 500bhp, carbon - ceramics and a finely honed suspension setup can all be undone by shoddy rubber providing a less than ideal connection to the road surface.

We had a few laps of Thermal Raceway near Palm Springs to try this out in combination with the optional Pirelli Trofeo R tyres (it's on Continental rubber as standard).

Today I hit kerb quite hard and a chunk of rubber removed from the sidewall of the tyre.

Some of that astonishing grip comes from the lightly treaded A048 Yokohama tyres, but the stiff yet supple chassis set - up optimises them, working the rubber into the tarmac so fully you'd expect it to last no more than a few hundred miles (where in fact you should see around 9000 from a set of Yokos).

VW decided to fit summer rubber from one of Michelin's main competitors to the GTI, but according to evo's 2014 Summer Tyre Test (evo 201), this particular tyre struggled in the subjective and measured tests.

There's a bespoke new Pirelli tyre that's been developed because the dynamics of a car with rear steering alter completely the demands placed on the rubber.

You need to be working the chassis hard, but mid-corner you'll feel subtle messages about the weight distribution filtered through to the seat of your undergarments, and when you get on the throttle there's that lovely sensation of the rear hunkering down onto its big 295 - section rubber, squeezing the tyres a little more firmly into the warm tarmac and driving you forwards with supreme traction.

We also made the right call with pretty much every tyre choice ahead of the first race, so we arrived at each circuit with the best rubber to do the job.

I bought my Camry with 18 wheels and really smart alloy rims and within 2.5 years I have scraped all the rims not to mentioned cupped the rubber out of the tyres in one or two cases I must have popped them or had a slow leak.

Generously proportioned Goodyear Eagle Supercar tyres (the same rubber you'll see on the Ford GT and Corvette Z06) should take care of sheer mechanical grip, and the minimal suspension travel looks spot - on to control that imposing body.

Winter tyres, and all season tyres, are constructed with a different type of rubber compound - containing a higher percentage of silica and natural rubber.

The tyres are Pirelli P - Zero Corsa tires that feature 12 different rubber compounds, and the suspension and wishbones are made of aeronautical grade aluminum, known as Avional.

The car will also feature hydraulic steering, rather than the electrical set - up of the normal 3 Series, and will run on normal tyres, not run - flat rubber, to further improve feel.

Ultimately the Celerio does not have a lot of cornering grip in these days of mega wide tyres and «trick» rubber; but there is enough considering the car's low weight and there is old school driver satisfaction in judging the corner entry speed you can get away with to minimise loss in the momentum you have built up.

As winter set in, it also helped that the kind folks at Nokian Tyres supplied us with a grippy set of Hakkapeliitta winter rubber, that, combined with our Hyundai's all - wheel - drive setup, turns the Genesis into as worthy a snow machine as we've had in our stable.

By the end of the day the front - left tyre of the AMG has been devastated too, demonstrating just how quickly soft road rubber and street suspension geometries can conflict with the requirements of a racetrack.

These are the tyres that we will run at Le Mans and then for the rest of the 2016 WeatherTech United SportsCar Championship, so we have to hope the new rubber suits our car the best.

With both cars riding on 19 - inch rubber — Continental versus Pirelli — there was a constant, high level of tyre and road noise.

The new Pirelli performance tyres are developed specifically for the GT Speed and benefit from a unique construction and rubber compound for enhanced levels of grip.

Also, it looks like the car is not running on the standard low - profile tyres of the international version but on more «India - friendly» higher sidewall rubber for extra comfort on broken roads.

Tyres are around half the price of the low - profile, large - diameter rubber found on most high - grade utes, while fuel and servicing costs are likewise lower, backed in this instance by annual capped - price service intervals (up to six years or 90,000 km), a three - year / unlimited - kilometre warranty and three - year roadside assistance package.

The stock C 63 Cabriolet rolls on 10 - spoke 18 - inch alloy rims draped in 255/40 R18 front tyres and 285/35 R18 rears, while the more powerful of the two cars bumps the rubber size up to 255/35 R19 front tyres and 285/30 R19 rears.

The 300C Luxury rides on big 20 - inch hoops and thin rubber - band tyres so you have to expect the degree of thumping though bumps that entails.

At this point, the M5 will happily become a playful tyre - shredder, destroying its rear rubber at will to a chorus of white smoke and sonorous V8 sound.

• Oliver Gavin and Corvette Racing teammate Tommy Milner finished in second position at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on Sunday (10 July, 2016) • Gavin qualified the # 4 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R in the sixth position on Saturday, a tenth of a second from the second row in class • After a strong race, the final pit stop saw Milner gain a couple of positions executing a great undercut strategy, using his warm Michelin rubber to take advantage of others leaving the pits on cold tyres.

All areas the previous tyres struggled with and the main reasons plenty of owners couldn't wait to fit conventional rubber as soon as the opportunity arose.

In addition, Michelin is set to introduce another new control tyre at the Wisconsin circuit and there will be an entirely separate race to get a handle of the new rubber, which may play a critical role in determining the outcome of the headlining 2h40m contest.

We felt like we were driving through Mad Max on tyres of perishing rubber — every monotonous task we had to complete balding our tyres more until we got about halfway through and we just mentally crashed.

The handling doesn't just vary based on your car though; a whole range of weather effects are included all of which have the appropriate effect and even the build - up of rubber wearing off the tyres onto the track will slightly affect the handling as the race goes on.

Advanced setup options and telemetry for data analysis; dynamic simulation of the tyre rubber deposited on track, depending on the car laps; an adjustable time of the day mode, featuring sun position calculated in realtime, depending by geographical coordinates of the track and by the sun curve according to time and date, in order to get the same light conditions of the real tracks!

The back will touch but the front will dig into soft, yielding rubber, sinking you deep into the wall's enveloping embrace and sending tyres flying in a pleasant cascade of physics objects.