In their bid for a better relationship between race cars and regular passenger car users,.
So, this will improve tyre development.
Hence many of the racing world’s premiere single-seater championship events. We are heading for an increase in wheel diameters. In a bid by Michelin to make the tyres used for racing more relevant to everyday road cars,.
The relatively new world of the electric racing car championship,
At the moment, the top racing championships such as F1, GP2, and Formula Renault all operate their cars on 13-inch wheels, but tyre suppliers, especially Michelin, believe that using 17- or 18-inch wheels will help their technology transition more effectively into everyday road tyres.
Formula E, has become the pacesetter by using different tyres than the rest of the racing world.
Michelin’s Formula E project manager.
Serge Grisin says..”From the very start the idea was to have maximum links between our cars and the street tyres of the future,‘So what we learn in racing is much easier to transfer to a street tyre because of the championship’s similarities”.
I believe that the tyre companies will get their own way, and why not? They are the ones who are having to speed up the transition to greener and more environmentally friendly tyre products. The motorsport scene accelerates the research and development that is required to improve tyre technology.
Michelin want to use bigger tyre
to give the F1 teams more choices as to which tyre compounds to use, and to have more tyre changes during a race and practice session. I am not sure whether Pirelli, who are the present suppliers of tyres, agrees with this, but i do not think that they will give up the franchise so easily.
Sadly, my wife and business partner, Michelle Roberts, has passed away, having suffered from MND for the past three years. Eric has spent all his working life apart from a brief 6 months as a firefighter in the tyre trade. Married to Michelle, having 8 children all now grownup. Tyres are Eric's life long passion. Apart from running his business Eric is a keen Blogger and runs 4 online websites relating to his business.
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