£50 Normal Tyres vs £700 Formula 1 Tyres
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2024
- And we cut them open to see the differences!
This is a normal tyre - it cost £50. And THIS is a Formula 1 tyre - and this cost £675!
So what makes them different? And why does the F1 tyre cost 13 times more?
Well, I’m going to explain what makes them special - and then cut them open - so you can see for yourself. Let’s get into it.
So these two serve the same purpose. They are the squishy bit between the car and the road that allows one to grip the other.
The rubber in the tread creates grip when it’s pushed into the small dimples in the road. This allows the car to accelerate, brake and corner in a variety of conditions. So what makes these tyres different?
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I'd love to see Pirelli release their ultimate F1 tires just to show us what could be achieved if there was no rules or limitations from the F1.
@@Expialidoucious but the objective would be to make a drivable car without rules
@@lochl2 yes. Like build the absolute fastest drivable race car without rules. That would be crazy. The porsche 919 EVO is a bit close to this scenario however it's built upon an existing platform that was governed by rules. We'd like to see something built from the ground up.
@@ipo7596 I agree, something similar to the Red Bull x2010 Adrian Newey designed some times ago. Not sure how someone would be able to drive this thing without passing out tho...
However I really think the F1 should be revised from the ground up. It's supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport but every innovations ends up illegal. They really should focus on safety and efficiency at their primary rules but scrap everything else. The car should be within certain parameters like the size and the drag produced to offer interesting races. Other than that, it's up to the teams are allowed to use x amount of fuel to finish the race. You want to use a good old V10 ...okay! or a small 4-cylinder with big ass turbos? fine! ...but keep in mind you need to use x amount of fuel. I think we'd be surprised to see how out of the box some team will think. To keep things interesting I'd make all cad files/designs available after 3 races so any team would be able to see/use the other teams ideas. That would be highly controversial but very cost efficient for teams with smaller budget. Other bonus is that we'd know what the Aston Martin would looks like in 3 races :P
@@cybernetix86just wait for the ‘26 specs. I have this uncanny feeling that wings will be basically completely banned outside 60’s style winglets and a smaller version of the current rear wing with 90% of the DF made via ground effect
@@dylanzrim3635 Is it really F1 if you don’t have wings though?
It’s only $700? thought it would be like $70,000
bulk rate probably
I know what I'm buying for my birthday
I had the same reaction. Feels affordable lol
700 euro so 843 USD per tire hard to believe. Theirs sports car tires out there that cost 4-8k a set
Cheaper than Bugatti!
Pirelli doesn't just get 20 million pounds per year for their services in F1, marketing deals with F1 plus their own marketing on their own road production tires severely outweigh any development and technical support costs that they spend, especially given how big F1 currently is. Add to that the knowledge they gain from their development the long term profit for pirelli is immense!
I realized how effective their marketing was when I recently saw a set of pirelli p zeros on a car and I thought to myself, "damn those look like some grippy tires". Nevermind the fact that other tire manufacturers also make performance tires
he was only talking about the price of the tires, not their services or costs
@@MoGumbo_ of course, the comparison to the multi-billion cost of road tire prices made it seem like pirelli hasn't hit the jackpot with f1, when, in fact ,they have
Pirelli still sucks
@@hassannaeem101 Just the white/yellow/red band around road tires would make people on the market for grippy street tires interested and people's turn heads. No matter their performance on the road/track. It's amazing how far their reach is because of their F1 involvement.
How has f1 not given you your own show/segment
Like seriously wtf the quality of these videos are top tier
You and your team do incredible work, maybe they can’t pay you enough 😂
Keep up the great work lads and ladies!
F1 has Alex Fabrega who is pretty good at this sort of stuff.
When I worked at a land fill we had a area to dispose of tires. We had to be careful because sometimes on very worn tires little pieces of the steel bead can poke through. They can cut you through your gloves.
50 USD for a car tyre? I spend about as much per bicycle tyre... heck, per kilogram my bicycle tyres are more expensive than the F1 ones.
My Continental GP5000 cost $70 here in Cyprus (each)
Here in argentina, a normal car tyre costs like $150
Where are you getting tires for $50
mostly in asia but they are thiner width wise and will not last for 60 k miles more like 10 k km
Skidders, or people who don't have the most ideal income for nice tyres
Would be interesting to see how a F1 car would perform on regular road car tires....
it would prob burn them completly in a lap or 2, just like how wet tyres overheat fast when driven on dry trach. At least thats my guess
@@_Drekavac_ yeah, also the car will be undrivable,its will have 0 grip and the tryres will then overheat too..its impossible for normal tyres to output 1000hp and now that i think about it,maybe they would also get ripped completely from the loads of the high downforce corners such as copse ,maybe even on the straights
They'd probably blow up right away after doing a burn out at the start. If not that, they'd disintegrate at the first corner or braking point
no they wouldn't explode or desintegrate... that's racing tires. road tires have way harder compound and are often rated for much larger (weight) loads than f1 cars.
it would just have way less grip, and as such would never be able to apply the horizontal loads that would be necessary to cause problems (i think, maybe i'm underestimating how much grip just straight downforce gives the car). f1 road cars would be like FE, but maybe worse because FE still uses softer compounds than most road tires, even if they're granite compared to f1.
I don't know how much faith I'd have in a £200 set of 60k mile tires. I can't do the conversion in my head, but my last set of tires, the most expensive tires I've ever bought, cost over $1400US. 20in Michelin Pilot Sports for an Audi S5.
Lol my mom just bought Walmart Brand Chinese tires for her 2020 Ford Explorer. I tried telling her to get Michelins but she said they cost too much. 30 minutes later she’s talking about planning a Spring Break vacation to NYC(this is normal it’s only 2hrs away) and going to the Louis Vuitton store.
Won’t spend $1,000 on the thing that stops her 5,000lb SUV that does 80mph but will spend $3,000 on a bag.
@@Michael-pi8ps there are a few things on a car that i would never skimp on. tires and brakes for example.
@@affectedrl5327 exactly, these are essential, they can either your life, or the life or someone else on the road
Last time I put tires on my Vette the rears cost $650 USD a tire. On another note I once did some promo work with American Racing Wheels which is owned by Wheel Pros in California. Anyways they had a BWT Racing Point wheel on their shelf and the first thing I did was pick it up and I was shocked with how light the wheels are.
Yup, a set of 20 inch rears for my former 911 was about $1,200.
@@groosbro1 I believe it man especially on a square set up. Gets spicy but I guess we are fortunate to be able to enjoy it.
@@Photobombin
The maintenance on the 911 was absurd, thank God it was a lease and under warranty, otherwise I would have spent well over $13K for fixing relatively minor things, like a squeaky clutch pedal bushing that required removal of the dash to access. A $10 bushing required 15 hours of labor at $189/hr.... Porsche tax...
@@groosbro1 I can only imagine. I would have loved a 911 but to steep for my current financial situation. I just play with Corvettes cause they are cheap and I know the ins and outs of every single generation having worked on restorations. I haven’t had any experience with a C8 but seems like a good value for the money. The 911 though…. I’ll keep dreaming hahaha.
@@Photobombin
It wasn't overly "expensive" at about $1,100 a month, and I had it through the Covid lockdown. No one on the roads, no police, no commuters, it was a joy to wind it out in first three gears to 7,500 rpm, at which point it was at "loose your license" speed... 🤣
I believe Scott has the incorrect cost for the F1 tires. I run Pirellis on my cup cars and a full set is approx $3200USD. Impossible to believe F1 tires cost less than mine. Great content other than improper cost.
i think it's missing a zero at least
What a great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge
I can't help but think going back to pre-2017 tires would solve a lot of F1's problems. Less aero wash, less grip (to encourage move overtaking), less weight (and, crucially, less unsprung weight), lower risk to marshals and pit crew if wheel tethers fail, and it will allow F1 cars to be substantially narrower and aid in solving the size problem.
but change for the sake change will save F1, the FIA said so
Not necessarily. Less mechanical grip means you’re relying more heavily on aero grip, which is more easily disrupted by the car ahead of you. Less aero grip means you’re skidding more in the turns, slowing you down.
Pre 2017 tyres were terrible. Also dirty air from the tyres was actually worse during those days and better today because of the wheel covers and the front wings. Plus it's less effective due to the increased focus on ground effect
or shorten the supension arms.
They look shabby
I’m actually surprised that the racing slick was as inexpensive as it was!!!!
Oh I see it’s a 10 year old 13” tire.
I’ve seen how the land speed record breaking tires are produced at Goodyear in Akron OH. Those are more unusual than F1 ones - stiffer (feels like wood) and very thin to avoid too big of a temperature gradient, which may lead to deformation and rupture. The production is R&D-like, they are handmade in very small quantities.
Great work!
love your video's mate!
What a splendid explanation! I'm using this for my research competence (:
Thnx!
Awesome work.
Here in America Michelin sport cups are more than $700 🤣
I sold tires for a long time. This is all exactly what I expected and Im feeling validated lol...cool video, dude.
This was way more interesting than I thought it would be.
If only we could get decent tires for $50.. the cheapest I'd put on anything are ~$70 and my budget track tires are ~$95
can't even imagine splurging on slicks
Great stuff but id love to know where you get tires for 50 quid?
Very interesting, thanks 👍
Congratulations on 1 million subscribers
This was awesome, you going to sign any of them? Keep up the awesome stuff.
i want to go back to the Senna days where they abused the tires in the whole race overtaking eachother many times... today there is a 2 or 3 lap "window" where you can try to overtake once or twice...
This is exceptional content
Hi, I noticed that you did not pick up on the heat build up caused by the flexing of the tyre and the dispersal of the heat out of the tyre on the wall design. The other point is that tyres are made by hand, what other items are hand made on a vehicle? Cheers mate. Harera
The Bridgestone tire you have in the thumbnail and intro to the video is $400-$500 USD per tire.
Is there anything that _isn't_ ridiculously expensive in the US?
@@halofreak1990 nope 😂 this country is a shit hole tbh and it’s too expensive to live here
@@halofreak1990 food and gas
@@mattfantastic9969 Food in the grocery store, especially healthy food, is also ridiculously expensive. Fast food and pizza, I agree, is cheap as gas. I remember getting a much better quality burrito from a Mexican quality for the price of 2 frozen burritos from the supermarket. The latter - not worth it.
Which road surface has more grip?
Smooth hot mix, or coarse chip bitumen?
I believe Lego is still the largest tire maker
It’s possible. 🧐McDonald’s happy meal toys made it the biggest unit toy seller🤓
If I had the money, I'd take an F1 tire, drill some deep holes into the sidewalls and then stick some metal rods in it and then put glass on top and I have an F1 tyre coffee/end table.
the 2012 season isn't that the reason The tires are so precise cause 8 different winners in first 8 races (crazy)....so FIA loved that that's why the side walls so thin????
Teach me dammit!!
What tires do you fit in your road car? In my experience, tires for my car cost more like 100 pounds each (converted from Euro price)...
those are a budget one, he probably uses ones around the same pric but for the video they do cheap expensive
Up to 60,000 miles??? Not sure what tyres you're using but I've had top of the line Pirelli, Michelin, Bridgestone (worst) and more, for most which last around 30- 40,000 km.
Where can I get Bridgestone Potenza's for $50 each? That seems far too cheap
How do you go about acquiring a used f1 tyre because putting that instead a glass coffee table would be a cool af house decoration
I love your videos. 👍
There is a Goodyear facility about 45min south of me & there is nothing as low as £50 near me.
Would the wind tunnel tires work on a kart?
$1000 bucks for an F1 tire? When I was 20 years old I had a lifted Silverado with huge off-road tires. I went in to get new tires and the shop quoted me $2500. So $1000 for an F1 soft is a bargain I think.
I'm honestly baffled how cheap the F1 tires are, I had no idea. What I did remember is that a set of tires for a Bugatti Chiron is $42.000 and needs to be replaced every 2500mi (4000km). Now THAT'S expensive af.
The Bugatti tyres come *with* a wheel/rim; they have to glue them on to stay attached despite massive lateral forces.
@@bakedbeings You're right about the gluing part, but it doesn't come with the the wheels... the wheel set is an extra $69.000 for some extra crazyness lol. And the wheels need to be changed with every second new set tires. Check out Motortrend's review of the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse from 2012 for details.
@@PhazerSC I think after 3 sets of tyres, the rims need to be replaced.
Where do you get those used f1 tyres? I want one😢 and here they just cut them in two
6:44 aren't the inters and wets called cinturato?
Always wanted to know, if the tread pattern on pirelli's wet and intermediate tires are so incredibly good at dispersing water and adding back a lot of wet weather grip, why isn't that same pattern used in road cars? Wouldn't such a pattern make tires safer in tough weather conditions and lessen the possibility for hydroplaning?
The difference is downforce. It squeezes out the water, even with a much chunkier tread. (edit: I'm guessing)
Road noise is not a relevant concern when designing an F1 tyre, neither is fuel economy to the same extent that it is for a road tyre. An extreme wet tyre doesn't need to function at all in dry conditions either, unlike a road tyre - which must not only function in a wide range of conditions, but handle as predictably as possible in those conditions too.
Pirelli let a tire escape? They’re slipping up now
Glad you mentioned potholes...
considering how much tech and effort is put into each road tire. even at $100 each, it's a sheer bargain.
Now how did you get an F1 tyre? Thanks for sacrificing one for science!
F1 tires are only 700 quid? My michelin cup tires were over half that. Very surprised on their value.
It makes sense now why we often see the entire contact surface detach at the shoulder. Is it a failsafe?
I managed to get 4mm off my rears in 3-4 months. Drifting is just to fun 😂
Let’s not forget Lego is the largest tire manufacturer in the world.
The nut holding the F1 tyre on costs more than the tyre itself.
Unexpected.
This video should be called "this is how sharp and strong carbon fiber shards are"
“How similar are they? Well actually are they similar? They looks the same. Are they the same?”
I feel like £700 is incredibly reasonable haha
£700 is only one tyre, not one set.
MORE OF THIS
Who do I contact to buy a set of actual F1 tires?
the largest tire manufacturer in the world, in terms of number of tires made per year....
is Lego. :D
How did you buy it?
What potenzas are £50?
Where do you get tire for 50?
What happened with last years F1 competition you were running?
I don't know where you got 50$ normal tires from, but I want in, regular tires here are $700+
Then you are being shafted if that's just for a regular budget tyre
Also it's £50 not $50
I just spent $900 on the cheapest set of tires I could find for my mid sized suv.
Just remember, the most tyres per year title is held by Lego, where the comparison there? 😂😂😂
yeh those bridgestone road tyres are worth a lot more than 50 quid, more than double that at least.
How much h pressure is in an f1 tire?
Around 21 psi
@@Alucard-gt1zf 👍
do endurance race vs formula 1 tyres that would make more sense to compare.
Hard compound
why not uss rain tyre as comparisson??
GT7 is ripping me off charging 40k for set of mediums 😂
More like this please!
Does F1 have to return the used tires (tyres) to Pirelli?
I believe so, and the Pirelli engineers analyze the used tyres. Also, I believe it’s required to return allocations that were issued.
Good video but i cannot belive you cut the F1 tyre....ive been after one for years
Bridgestone Potenzas cost £50?
Why is it being sold in open market any way?
Also the difference is in the fact that the f1 tyre has to run at 100 degrees C, whereas the road car tyre doesn’t heat up that much
The low volume production, research and development and logistics obviously make it way, way, more expensive.
Vulcanization !
“V” stands for Vulcan 🖖
No way you can get Potenzas for £50
lol $50 for a tyre? Are you trying to have a blowout?
Tyres are like $140 minimum
I want to see a 1930’s race car with modern F1 tyres
i kinda want to see him cut open a rally tire and compare to this ones.
What kinda tires cost 63 dollars? My dad had to replace his and they cost 400 each 😭
1 mil subs🎉🎉🎉
My eBike has a Pirelli Angel on the rear...
LoL
60k km is lot for a normal tyre.
60k miles is a wet dream.
I'm sure just cause the bead is similar in thickness doesn't mean its similar at all in steel composition or hardness.
i always thought f1 tires would have more rubber, and be softer to the touch, but i was wrong in both
I thought F1 tyres would be even more expensive than that, a new set for a Veyron or Chiron costs more. But indeed, if you add the number of sets each team uses over a weekend...
Didn't Michael Schumacher's special Bridgestones in his Ferrari dominance cost a lot more than £700
£50 for a road car tyre, I wish
That's what they cost.....
Plus around £30 for labour
(Should mention I'm looking at this with trade prices and also with budget tyres)
@@Alucard-gt1zf wow thanks
Wow thought an F1 tyre would cost way more than that
"Next" at 1:11 is the aspect ratio...
The video should be called "F1 tires are cheaper than you think"
The second is the depth, but not in mm/cm.
Content on the makeup of the tires is great, but the costs don't make sense. My darn Continental summer tires are over 300 bucks now and the are only 255s.