Road Tires on a 2022ish F1 car. HOTLAP! Read description for seriousness.

Опубликовано: 11 Март 2025
на канале: Niels Heusinkveld
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IF... road tires would survive the very high tire loads seen on F1 cars (1300+kg)
IF... they could while slipping and sliding
IF... they didn't melt or disintegrate from this abuse..
THEN... maybe these are kinda the grip levels you could expect.

These are 'good' semi slick large 18" tires that would make your high end road car do around 1.1 or 1.2G on a skidpad. Very solid performance, but not F1 levels where they do 1.8G around most hairpins!

The way I make tires and the way it SEEMS to be understood is that the slicks have the biggest advantage at lower loads. As load increases, the grip difference between the slicks and the race tires gets smaller. However, this is not realistic because at ~2 Bar pressure, with the downforce and power available, I doubt the rear tires would physically stay on the car long enough, or stay in their operating temperatures long enough, for it to actually work.

Maybe, if you would drive this carefully, avoiding the sliding, and maybe at higher pressures (that would remove some grip) you could do a few laps like this... Maybe not.

The 3.6 meter wheelbase and Monaco steering lock actually make it feel pretty controllable especially at low speed. It isn't very snappy because the size and weight make it sluggish in yaw, and the wheelbase just makes it relatively stable. Again, this is all assuming the tires would 'cope' .. which they probably wouldn't, so it would probably be a lot harder in real life!