Sentences with phrase «tyres make»

Tyre degradation is now more noticeable as well; do too many laps and you'll find it a struggle and a half to get the damn thing around the corners, so smooth driving and careful care of your tyres make a big difference in your races.

Shanghai GM says mid-mounted direct injection engine technology and wide range of fuel - saving features such as start / stop technology and ultra-low rolling resistance tyres make the new Cruze up to 24 percent more fuel efficient than the current - generation Cruze.

The tyres make a difference and we are glad that the Hankooks are softer and stickier compared to the Goodyears offered in the previous Superb and new Octavia.

The quattro system with Dunlop Winter Sport tyres make you scoff at snow storms (try that in a Boxster or M3).

Still, the 19 - inch tyres make light work of potholes, and there's enough space to the ground to clear the largest of speedbreakers.

The car's 20in alloys and low - profile tyres make for a noisy motorway ride, but a much more supple one than the old Type R had.

It's in the corners where the tyres make themselves known, gripping tenaciously despite the inherent softness in the chassis tune — plenty of bodyroll suggesting the Alfa might fall off - line, but for the tyres» purchase.

Sure it's a bit of a commercial for Pirelli, but what it shows is how much difference tyres make.

Forged alloy wheels fitted with Pirelli P Zero ™ Corsa System tyres make the 650S even more exciting to drive, providing huge reserves of grip to complement its intelligent aerodynamics.

The GT86 does have grip, and it's when you start to lean on them that the tyres make a little more sense.

The air filled tyres make it a comfortable ride for the little one and smooth to push for the Mum (or Dad) too.»

Don't get me wrong, I do not want to go back to what we had in the refuelling era where overtaking was pretty much only possible during pit stops, but I think something between that and the type of passing we had during the height of the «Pirelli tyres made of cheese» era would strike a good balance.

But whilst his tyres made have given up, Gilles certainly hadn't.

The brakes sit behind 19in wheels shod with 235/35 tyres made of a bespoke compound.

As this is a company car all costs are covered, however ł200 for a tyre make you realise this could be an expensive car to run.

The, ahem, synergy of the M Sport suspension and the run - flat tyres makes for an unacceptably harsh ride.

[2] Standard factory supplied tyre makes offered are either Continental SportContact3 or Pirelli P - Zero Rosso.

Not exact matches

He said they had each been skipping a day's meals once a week in order to have more for the child, but then they needed new tyres for the car so they could get to work at night, and just could not make ends meet.

What made that lap even more impressive was that the Mercedes driver was on soft tyres.

Running wide at the final two corners even caused Romain Grosjean's front - left tyre to puncture, and his Haas spewed sparks as he made his way back to the pits.

When he made his only pit stop he rejoined in eighth place and on better tyres than those around him, and he used them to great effect as he charged up to third.

In fact, the multiple stops and strategies made it such a good race that it directly influenced the FIA to instruct Pirelli to make tyres that wore out quickly in the hope of making every race that good.

Pirelli will make a decision on whether or not it will introduce a sixth tyre compound at the end of the year

There are a number of reasons for this - as well as the obvious loss of downforce, by following in the wake of another car the dirty air generated causes the follower to slide around and overheat their tyres, which makes the idea of a driver dropping a couple of seconds behind a rival a more effective strategy.

It took him a little while to get through the field and up the order, especially in the early laps on soft tyres, but Ricciardo was soon making up ground as others pitted.

The first time we'll be seeing the hypersoft at a race weekend will be in Monaco, but the degradation there is so low that the tyres could literally be made of soft, crumbly cheese and you'd still see drivers running a comfortable one - stopper.

The Aussie made the most of the RB14, the hypersoft tyres, and a freshly - resurfaced circuit to set a new track record

Rule changes for 1998 saw cars made narrower and grooved tyres introduced, and Adrian Newey got the rule changes bang on with the MP4 - 13.

Will contrasting strategies make for more interesting racing, or will tyre management take an unwanted centre - stage?

Again made by Adidas, the shirt will stick within the traditional white and blue colour scheme and will still have new sponsors Yokohama Tyres adorned on the front.

Watching Red Bull rush to get Daniel Ricciardo's tyres after a team error was painful and made even worse when it ended up costing him victory.

Michael Schumacher may have won 12 of the first 13 races in 2004, but at Spa his Ferrari was suffering badly from tyre warm - up issues, making him particularly vulnerable after safety car periods.

We don't often see drivers pitting to change tyres during Formula 2 sprint races but Charles Leclerc made it work.

But instead of calling what is currently the hard tyre the super hard and then shifting all the names along one (making the new compound the ultrasoft), for some reason Pirelli wants to call its new soft tyre something new entirely.

Ferrari's qualifying pace may make the race look like a foregone conclusion, but the top four on the grid will actually start the race on the slower, more durable soft tyre, on which the pace this weekend has looked much closer.

A Porsche mechanic made changing tyres look effortlessly simple during the 6 Hours of Silverstone

Many of those in the pack elected to make a pit stop, whilst those at the front tried to go the whole distance on one set of tyres.

At the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix, Bridgestone made the grooves in the tyres green to promote environmentally friendly driving.

When Pirelli became the sole tyre supplier in 2011 they were asked to make tyres that degraded quickly in order to make the racing more interesting.

He also confirmed that the drivers had specifically asked for longer - lasting rubber because the previous compounds overheated so easily that it made it difficult to race closely without destroying the tyres.

Therefore they've aimed to make the 2017 - spec tyres (which are 25 per cent wider than last year) last longer, and according to their initial tests they say they're on target.

He actually started to reel in Alonso, closing right up behind the Ferrari as the two made their final pit stops for slick tyres.

Jordan Taylor made it three - wide as he put a lap on a couple of GTLM cars, but misjudged it by the tinest of amounts and just clipped the No. 4 Corvette of Tommy Milner, sending the pair of them into the tyres on the outside of turn four.

The tyre barriers couldn't rest easy yet though - rain started to fall again and made conditions immensely difficult.With little more than a minute to go another prototype driver dropped it - not that you could see them from the initial shot, though!

The reduced downforce also has the knock - on effect of tyres taking longer to come up to operating temperature (there are no tyre warmers in IndyCar) as well as making them wear out quicker because the drivers are sliding around more.

At Mercedes Lewis Hamilton was in the car on Tuesday (and declared the new hypersoft as the best tyre Pirelli has made in F1), whilst Valtteri Bottas took over on Wednesday in what is (probably) the last time Mercedes» championship - winning W08 will be driven on a circuit in anger.

Even when Bridgestone - shod cars weren't a factor this contributed to some intriguing races - like in Canada, when David Coulthard made a precautionary tyre stop that ultimately cost him victory.

As is tradition in Bahrain, the combination of a track where overtaking is pretty straightforward and seriously high tyre wear made for an epic Formula 2 race.

Jack's view: «The pitstops and degrading tyres in F2 make strategy a huge part of Feature Races, and it's something most of the grid are new to, so it creates a lot of opportunity for exciting races.»

This left Piquet in a position to take the title, but because his teammate had suffered tyre failure (as had leader Keke Rosberg just a lap before Mansell), Williams was forced into making an extra precautionary pit stop for Piquet.