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20 Jun 2024, 21:49 (Ref:4216208)
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IMSA WEC prototype tyre/tire compounds
What tire compounds are allowed in WEC races? Is the 24hr allowed different compounds than the other races?
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21 Jun 2024, 17:11 (Ref:4216311)
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In regular season rounds, two tire compounds are allocated. At Le Mans, all 3 can be used. For Spa it was S and M. |
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21 Jun 2024, 17:29 (Ref:4216314)
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Thank you very much
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21 Jun 2024, 19:49 (Ref:4216328)
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 I don’t know why I took this photo. Maybe for this moment. I don’t recall hard ever being used. The other categories had different tyres. |
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21 Jun 2024, 20:22 (Ref:4216334)
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Never got warm enough to use the hard tire. That would have been nice to see at the 24, but the weather had other plans! I hope they do the sensible thing and bring them to Sao Paulo.
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22 Jun 2024, 10:54 (Ref:4216384)
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22 Jun 2024, 11:29 (Ref:4216386)
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I think listening the the obligatory Michelin PR blokes in comms the hard is for the insane heat of Bahrain potentially LM, Fuji etc, to make a tyre work at Spa and then 35 degrees in say Brazil is tough!!
Davidson gave a good prod by saying I think the hard yes would wear less but it would also not really get warm enough to work properly in the cold, so would offer a huge laptime reduction, and would potentially get cold tear etc and more wear as the driver would be trying more to get it to work? |
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22 Jun 2024, 12:15 (Ref:4216393)
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22 Jun 2024, 15:50 (Ref:4216411)
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22 Jun 2024, 15:52 (Ref:4216412)
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22 Jun 2024, 18:56 (Ref:4216431)
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Nah, Dave'll be too busy driving LMU.......
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22 Jun 2024, 19:02 (Ref:4216432)
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Time for the lawyers then.
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23 Jun 2024, 09:28 (Ref:4216479)
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I’d love to have a go at LMU but our new babies have taken our office as a bedroom so the PC is sat in my wardrobe at the moment. I’m biding my time though…
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23 Jun 2024, 14:12 (Ref:4216513)
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If I were you I would leave it for a bit, it's not great at the moment.
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23 Jun 2024, 18:48 (Ref:4216601)
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Back to the point of tyres, going by what the comms team were saying during the lemans broadcast, I had no idea the soft - med - hard tyres were actually not only a different compound but also a different construction, so the soft tyre actually was a softer (springier) tyre with more inherent damping and softer sidewall.
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1 Aug 2024, 23:29 (Ref:4221489)
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While I’m still waiting for my apology for stealing my photo
we have some tyre news. Michelin have decided to not update the tyres next year for WEC and IMSA. This is after the CoTA test last week. They’d like to test more and are happy enough with the current tyres. Article at DSC: https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/...s-to-2026.html |
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