The tires we use on public roads all have treads, but high-performance Formula 1 cars use slick, treadless tires in dry ...

Racing gets through a lot of rubber, especially at the top level, so you may be wondering what happens to all of the F1 tires after the race? The process turns out to be as complex as everything ...

Hm. Aston Martin sticks out here. Fernando Alonso barely squeaks by the Williams, and Lance Stroll (again) exits stage left ...

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are set to conduct a 2026 Pirelli tyre test at the Barcelona Formula 1 circuit ...

Detractors look at a modern Formula One car and wonder what relevance they could possibly have to the cars we drive. And they may have a point. Just look at the tires, for crying out loud ...

Teams believed they were managing the tires well, however. By lap 46 F1’s opinion-dividing AWS analytic graphics said that Sergio Perez, at the time running in second and defending against ...

Many have said and will continue to say that F1 is far too obsessed with its status as a “show” in 2024, but when I consider the worst-case scenario of the tire war that we observed in ...

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