F1 Tire Pressures
05-23-2016, 12:56 PM
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F1 Tire Pressures
You just have to love F1. As soon as they decided to mandate tire pressures the teams developed wheels with an added air chamber in the wheel.
"The ideas was to have a double-chambered wheel rim that had a small bleed hole in-between.
The outer chamber would be filled with higher pressure air to ensure the tyres were above the minimum pressure limit, while the inner chamber would have less pressure.
The hole would be small enough not to allow the higher pressure air to escape instantly – but over a short period of time the pressure in the two chambers would equalise, lowering the overall pressure the tyre was being run at."
The whole article is here.
You can be sure that there will be some creative things going on in Monte Carlo.
Richard Newton
Tools for Your Tires
"The ideas was to have a double-chambered wheel rim that had a small bleed hole in-between.
The outer chamber would be filled with higher pressure air to ensure the tyres were above the minimum pressure limit, while the inner chamber would have less pressure.
The hole would be small enough not to allow the higher pressure air to escape instantly – but over a short period of time the pressure in the two chambers would equalise, lowering the overall pressure the tyre was being run at."
The whole article is here.
You can be sure that there will be some creative things going on in Monte Carlo.
Richard Newton
Tools for Your Tires
Last edited by rfn026; 05-23-2016 at 12:56 PM.
