alphacyberranger to Formula 1@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoGeorge Russell has been disqualified from the race for an underweight carimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down14
arrow-up1135arrow-down1imageGeorge Russell has been disqualified from the race for an underweight caralphacyberranger to Formula 1@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareitsame@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·5 months agoDoes anybody know how much weight the tyres lose during a long stint like Russel did? And when compared to a 20-lap?
minus-squareRagglemcsnics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·5 months agoDefinitely not 1.5 kgs worth.
minus-squareitsame@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 months agoWhy “definitely”, please publish your info? Pirelli disagrees with you.
minus-squareitsame@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-25 months agoOK I found it myself : https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/were-russells-worn-tyres-the-cause-of-his-spa-f1-disqualification/10640096/ “We expect that the loss of rubber from the one-stop was a contributing factor, and we’ll work to understand how it happened. “We won’t be making any excuses though. It is clearly not good enough and we need to make sure it doesn’t happen again.” The missing weight of 1.5kg may sound like a lot, but we are only talking about 375 grammes from each corner. And as Pirelli head of F1 Mario Isola has explained, that is well within the boundaries of how much a worn tyre loses.
Does anybody know how much weight the tyres lose during a long stint like Russel did? And when compared to a 20-lap?
Definitely not 1.5 kgs worth.
Why “definitely”, please publish your info? Pirelli disagrees with you.
OK I found it myself : https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/were-russells-worn-tyres-the-cause-of-his-spa-f1-disqualification/10640096/