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[–] gravitas_deficiency 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tires almost as smooth as his brain

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No ridges or lumps, valleys or bumps!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

holy shit a meme from 2 decades ago!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's relatively fresh for Lemmy...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Welcome to repost [looks up the day] Monday!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

First time seeying lol

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But F1 tires are smooth as fuck too.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Smooth is better unless it's raining. And even then, the deep groves are only needed when it's very wet. Car tyres have to cover the 100% case of water.

The tires above look like they are just extremely over used, which has its own danger, namely failing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

yeah no way you can sand it to this level

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Not the rain tires though

[–] LetterboxPancake 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The drivers are pros though and there's every available safety measure built in the car, the clothing, the track, etc.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No they just use different tyres for different conditions

[–] LetterboxPancake 1 points 11 months ago

And different drivers and different safety measures. That's just a whole other circus.

[–] gravitas_deficiency -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Not on passenger cars they don’t.

I should clarify:

  • seasonal tires are definitely a thing for passenger cars.
  • bald (or sanded down/shaved) tires on a car not intended for track use means you need you need to get new tires, like, yesterday.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Passenger cars are not in F1.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is why Southern US has a problem when it snows. Everyone pretty much has summer tires.

In the cold, summer tires are as hard as hockey pucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard of summer tires, snow tires or all seasons?

The tires on my car can only be used in temps above 45° and honestly at 45-50° it’s extremely sketchy until they get warmed up. They’re also terrible in the rain and really only meant for warm weather and dry days.

You also wouldn’t want to run full snow tires in the summer.

So passenger cars absolutely have tires meant for different conditions

[–] gravitas_deficiency 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes. I own both summer and snow tires.

I am fully aware that passenger cars can and do use season-appropriate tires.

I am saying that sanding your tires down to be bald is a great way to shorten your lifespan. Normal consumer-grade non-track-use tires are categorically always supposed to have tread. If they don’t, you need new tires.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I don’t think anyone was saying bald or sanded down tires would be good. If the tires were supposed to be groved but no longer are, those tires are WAY beyond their expected life and need to be changed. The rubber compounds are different than actual slicks and bald tires will never provide adequate traction even with the increased contact patch. Slick tires are completely different.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

ackschually, F1 cars don't have traction control, stability control or even ABS, so they're really fricking hard to drive in the best of circumstances, nevermind in the rain on slicks. Now GT3 is a class where pro drivers drive some really sick cars with all the electronics

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

MAXIMUM speed!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

A slick idea