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I think they're intermediates for these does appear to be a faint tread pattern on them.
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There definatly inters.
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Inters...with that line down the middle of the tyre...
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There is no doubt that the tyres on the red bull in the other forum's photos are slicks, they must have found a loop hole somewhere that enables them to carve out a groove & call them inters, which seems somewhat lame but quite clearly obvious
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how do you come to that conclusion.there far from being the inters i saw being used this year & if they are inters what would you prefer to be running, a tyre so close to the old slicks it's not funny or the grooved tyres they have to use now, far from being pointless.
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We've seen this before in testing.An inter at speed looks very much like a slick (sometimes it's because they become slick).
I wouldn't think that any of the teams would run slicks if they need to know how the grooved tyres work! They probably used the inters to clean up the track. |
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You can well imagine that despite a cold track, a lack of moisture would cause high tyre wear for the inters, leading to them degrading to slicks quite quickly. |
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EDIT:Here's a hi-res version, have a close look at the tyres, you can just make out the tread, particularly on the front tyre closest to us. http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1...elona15lj5.jpg Last edited by SkaifeHRT; 30 Nov 2006 at 02:02. |
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I think that the non-groove tyres are now positively and without a doubt inters.
Let's move on shall we! I must sat however that it's a shame that Bridgestone didn't take a few of their GP2 tyres along for comparison. |
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I read somewhere that teams run inters on occasion to simulate drying track conditions. I assume this is to test how well they hold up when the track dries out and they start to get hot.
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And how much better do slicks look? I mean I admit that from a distance that Red Bull pic with inters looks like slicks, and they look so much better to me than the stupid grooves.
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