Top teams still resisting F1 tyre blanket ban
Oct.13 - Top teams are resisting a push to see tyre blankets banned in Formula 1.
The sport is keen to move away from the costly and energy-hungry practice of pre-heating tyres, with the item to be discussed at the F1 Commission in London on Wednesday.
But some teams are arguing that, with orders already placed for tyre blankets in 2022, drivers will struggle to get heat into their rubber without them - especially with the low-profile tyres set to debut in 2022.
Auto Motor und Sport, however, claims that it is mainly the big teams arguing to keep the blankets.
"In qualifying, the cars sometimes wait several minutes at the pit exit to get a good position on the track," an unnamed team manager from a smaller team is quoted as saying.
"The tyres cool down completely and somehow it still works."
It is believed a compromise will be discussed at the F1 Commission which would see blankets phased out from 2022 to 2024. Next year, for instance, the allowance of 40 blankets per team would be slashed to 20.
Not just that, maximum tyre heating is expected to be reduced from 90 to 70 degrees C, decreasing further to 50C in 2023 before a full ban in 2024.
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So, why ban them? Any valid reason?
Must be about F1's CO2 footprint Swede. Keeping 1.600 tyres on 90 degrees celsius must cost a lot of power.
Calc error. It are 400 tyres (40 blankets x 10 teams)
Thats a drop in the bucket compared to factories, flying teams and hear around, etc. Its more about appearance than reality.
Gear, not hear.
For sure! DHL is flying around with seven 747's that burn 12 litres per kilometre and fly 132,000 km (each) every season is around 12 x 132.000 = 11.088.000 liters of fuel. That's only the gear. F1 engines or cold tyres can't make up for that, even electric can't if you ask me.
times 7 planes = 77.616.000 litres...
77,616,000 litres
= 20,503,978 gallons
= 488,190 barrels of gas
/ 42/20 (20 gallons of gas from 42 gallons) of crude
= 1,025,199 barrels of oil
/ 450,000 barresl of oil per LR1 oil tanker
= 2.3 Oil Tanker Ships
+ 12 barrels of oil for the tire blankets
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