Sentences with phrase «tyres more»

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.

It doesn't cut in smoothly and you can hear the system clicking in, and although it helps give the front tyres more bite coming out of corners, it feels as if the car is fighting itself quite noticeably.

More weight is effectively added to the front and this gives the front tyres more to deal with.

Better weight balance enables it to work all four tyres more evenly and adjustably, the car simply giving you more options when tackling a corner thanks to its more dextrous, biddable chassis.

The combination of these two factors means the chassis exhibits a more neutral front - to - rear balance than before, working all four tyres more evenly, both into, through, and out of a given corner.

In reality, you can lean on the front tyres more than your instinct tells you, but while this is easy to put into practice on track, it can feel unnatural on the road, a bit too much like a leap of faith.

Conversely, more load at the front won't necessarily lock the front wheels, but it gives a tyre more to do when it is about to be asked to steer the car.

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.

«It's going to be a real thrill to take part in such a legendary event behind the wheel of a Renault Megane R.S, which will be fitted with snow and studded tyres so I can get a more complete sensation of rallying around these stages.

The real positive is that with Pirelli confirming a more significant drop off in performance when a tyre runs out of life, strategy should vary.

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.

My personal opinion is we will see more pit stops, a little bit more overtaking than last year and cars dropping a lot of performance trying to hang onto a tyre.»

The team also tried a biplane rear wing to try and get more downforce (again, it didn't work) and the car struggled to get heat into its front tyres, meaning it had colossal understeer.

In Q2, both Red Bulls did their best time on the supersoft tyre rather than the ultrasoft, meaning they'll start the race on the theoretically more durable compound than those around them, which could be interesting.

«These tyres are softer, which means more degradation, more lap time drop and more stops required.

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

F1 has teamed up with breast cancer organisation Susan G Komen with teams, tyres and more turning pink at the Circuit of the Americas.

With wider tyres and more aero, 2017 cars promise to look awesome.

The bigger tyres mean more rubber touching the track surface, so grip levels look set to increase by quite some margin and will play a big role in cutting lap times.

I've always been a big fan of strategy shaking up a race and the old Pirelli tyres opened up a lot of options due to the amount of wear, but these new, wider 2017 compounds are much more durable and that could limit drivers to one - stop races at a lot of tracks.

The drivers and teams then fitted a fresh set of tyres and turned the performance up to maximum for the final runs and the lap times came down even more.

If they only had 90 minutes in which to shakedown their cars, work out a setup, figure out the tyres and run a qualifying sim, then the teams would inevitably have to sacrifice some areas of their programme and focus more on others.

It's not the worst situation for Kubica, who can use the time to further develop and learn more about the Pirelli tyres - his inability to get on top of them in Abu Dhabi was apparently one of the main reasons why Williams passed him over for the race seat.

One idea that F1 has toyed with is introducing lower - profile tyres in order to be more relevant to both road cars and other championships.

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.

«We know we have more aquaplaning on these tyres, it was fine most of the track, just the straight line, brand new tarmac, not clearing the water.

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.

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

F1 has gone through a major regulations shake - up for the 2017 season, with wider front and rear wings, more aggressive aero and 25 % wider tyres.

You could clearly see the drivers pushing harder for longer, the speed of the cars is great, and those big fat rear tyres have more than a hint of the 1970s about them.

The 2017 Formula 1 cars are much faster than their predecessors due to fatter tyres, more aggressive aerodynamics and other general improvements.

David Ostella in the No. 52 Ligier slid wide in the damp conditions and scattered more tyres everywhere as his car dramatically flipped over.

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.

There had been some drastic regulation changes, namely much tighter aerodynamic specifications and the introduction of grooved tyres and it was clear early on that Newey had interpreted these changes more efficiently than others.

You can't engage in a fight for position with the wrong tyre temperature because the likely outcome is you lose even more places.

Considering their extra weight, lower top speed and more durable tyres, that's pretty impressive!

There is always the chance of more rain and that's when you have to adapt quickly because it's all about being on the right tyre at the right moment.

There is still a lot of work to do ahead of qualifying because I'm not completely happy with the balance and we need to work more on understanding the tyres.

It's a pity room wasn't found in its near - five - hour running time for more of Carlos Sainz Jnr's superb drive in China, particularly his heroic lap one effort on slick tyres.

With the track continuing to dry out, more drivers swapped to slick tyres with the benchmark time tumbling.

Vettel, Valtteri Bottas, Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen all have an extra pair of supersofts instead, while Kimi Raikkonen's strategy is more aggressive five sets of red - striped tyre and just one set of softs.

though as mentioned in the article will be interesting to see how this goes with no more designed to degrade tyres

This could be a year where squeezing time out of the corners is more important than tyre management.

Lewis Hamilton has a slightly more conservative tyre strategy at the United States Grand Prix, where he could clinch his fourth World Championship title.

World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton, in comparison, has two more sets of softs in his pool and team - mate Valtteri Bottas has two lots of the medium tyre.

Pirelli have released the tyre choices for each driver ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix next weekend, with Ferrari among those adopting more aggressive strategies.

Liverpool will be visiting Pirelli Stadium, named after Pirelli Tires (or more properly «Tyres») after the land was donated to the club by the company in exchange for naming rights.

The tyres are now solid polyurethane, making them lighter weight but more durable.