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Thread ID: 135313 2013-10-19 22:14:00 Why are low profile tyres not used on racing cars? mzee (3324) PC World Chat
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1356575 2013-10-20 07:45:00 Mate of mine has a crossover "SUV" which cost him over 80k because it is marketed as an offroader he likes to talk crap about how wonderful it is.


Does he use the spray on mud for even better effect to arrive at the office on Monday mornings?

:lol:
WalOne (4202)
1356576 2013-10-23 01:00:00 So my question is, why are low profile tyres not used on F1 racing cars?

Just ruminating, but if we look at the width/height aspect ratio (profile) of an F1 tyre (front or rear), I wouldn't be too surprised if it turned out to be much the same aspect ratio as a V8 Supercar, so it could well be arguable that if viewed simply as a numbers game, the F1 tyres could be considered to be low profile.

It might be a simple matter of visual perspective

Just a passing thought......for what it's worth.

I could be up a gum tree with a forest fire looming on the flank..........

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :)
Billy T (70)
1356577 2013-10-23 01:43:00 ...... but I'd rather be able to get into the driveway without scraping the bottom of the car myself or hit a stone without destroying the RIM :)

Perhaps you need the infamous Peter Brock ''Energy Polariser'' to protect the rims & make the car handle better
A story so crazy its hard to believe. Putting hippy energy crystals in a car .
1101 (13337)
1356578 2013-10-23 08:41:00 Perhaps you need the infamous Peter Brock ''Energy Polariser'' to protect the rims & make the car handle better
A story so crazy its hard to believe. Putting hippy energy crystals in a car .

It may have worked for Brock, but for all that he still ended up de-energising and depolarising himself with compressed wood, aka a tree. :stare:

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
1356579 2013-10-23 20:12:00 It may have worked for Brock, but for all that he still ended up de-energising and depolarising himself with compressed wood, aka a tree. :stare:

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
He made a blue and fitted depolarised Di-Lithium crystals; that never works, so he lost his grip.
R2x1 (4628)
1356580 2013-10-24 21:24:00 He made a blue and fitted depolarised Di-Lithium crystals; that never works, so he lost his grip.

Yeah well!

A driver with his experience should oughta have known that if you want to use depolarised Di-Lithium crystals you gotta port and polish them first, and to maintain adequate traction in the presence of non-sentient organic roadside obstacles*, and they should be made of High-Density, Non-Linear, Heat-Treated, Stress-Tested, Pure-Bred, Low-Profile, Organically-Depolarised, Bio-Degradeable Di-Lithium as well.

Using any Di-Lithium product with a descriptor that has fewer than eight hyphens is to invite disaster at the next available opportunity.

Those N-S ORO's* are ruthless and I reckon there's more than a car-park knee-trembler quickie of Klingon hidden in there somewhere.

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :stare:
Billy T (70)
1356581 2013-10-24 23:19:00 I would have thought they are better for drifting, not having the sidewall wobbling. Cicero (40)
1356582 2013-10-27 09:22:00 I would have thought they are better for drifting, not having the sidewall wobbling.


That's just a vicious rumour Ciccy, Mrs T can vouch for the fact that my sidewalls don't wobble, and that my drifting is right up there with the best of them, on both incoming and outgoing tides!

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :stare:
Billy T (70)
1356583 2013-10-27 10:07:00 Look at the colour scheme of F1 cars , - nose-to-tail-advertising.

Low profile is the very last thing they want associated with their car.

EMDW
R2x1 (4628)
1356584 2013-10-27 11:35:00 Look at the colour scheme of F1 cars , - nose-to-tail-advertising.

Low profile is the very last thing they want associated with their car.

EMDW

What rubbish!!
Zippity (58)
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