These tyres not only bring added safety to driving, but also provide extra stability through
less tyre wall flex, improving handling and increasing steering feedback.
I think the
taller tyre walls are intended to reduce the speed in which a corner can be taken.
Unfortunately, Mosca's car managed to miss the softer, cushion -
like tyre wall and crashed right into the Armco barrier.
It was a heavy hit and both cars slammed into
the tyre wall, causing the only yellow flag of the race.
In fact, it was Orudzhev's second time in
that tyre wall, having also smashed into it in race one.
We already knew the Albert Park Circuit in Australia had been told to make modifications to
tyre walls and Tecpro barriers to make the circuits safer.
It's easy to remember the corner names at Rockingham because they're written on large signs on
the tyre walls.
Obviously I wouldn't be saying this if I were an F1 driver and heading directly towards something likely to cause an uncomfortable accident, such as a barrier,
tyre wall or Lance Stroll.
If we were at any circuit other than Siverstone there would be a fair chance that I'd have been buried deep into
a tyre wall, but this being the home of the British Grand Prix means it's thankfully festooned with run - off areas and I used all of this one, before scrabbling back onto the track via a small rough patch of earth.
After being clipped by a spinning Dave Newsham (Toyota Avensis), Austin was pitched backwards at speed into
the tyre wall, ripping the front - left door from his car.
Jordan's Le Mans debut then ended abruptly in
the tyre wall at the entrance to the Porsche Curves.
The car then slid down the grass and impacted hard into
the tyre wall.
If you've the cheek to forget these fundamental principles, you'll quickly find that
the tyre wall is much uglier up close, or that being unceremoniously dumped several hundred feet from where you were is no fun at all.
Well the last trailer had Palmer binning his Renault into
a tyre wall... right before a race weekend where he binned it into a tyre wall!