So Formula 1 tyres have changed a lot, from skinny radials on the first Grand Prix cars, to slicks, then grooved, then back to slicks again. The performance improvement has been enormous, where today the tyres continually (well kinda) support the car at speed of 200 miles per hour and pull up to 6G on the brakes.

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So for this episode of Track Evolution, I’m going to take you from the 50s to today and z
explain what’s changed and why the tyres have continually caused arguments.

Right, so in the 50s they did tyres the oldschool way. Skinny, treaded tyres with a relatively simple construction. And really, they weren’t much different from the tyres you would see on a modern mountain bike.

They were supplied by a whole bunch of manufacturers, people like Pirelli, Firestone, Dunlop and Englebert. But if you take a look at the stats, Pirelli were a class above the rest taking way more wins and podiums.

This was apparently due to them being both faster AND lasting longer that seems strange to hear as a current F1 fan but we’ll get to that.

The fronts and the rears were the same size, in both diameter and width so the cars really didn’t have a whole lot of grip.

Taking a corner was kind of the case of cranking on a whole lot of steering lock, then just waiting for the understeer to end. Typically they would then get on the power and turn the understeer into oversteer honestly, they were drifting for a lot of the lap.

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