Why are the highest performance racing (F1) tires soft, but high performance summer tires for consumer cars are hard?
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Just one thing to add past things like wear and cycles: Water. Consumer tires need to deal with the environment. They are hard and treaded so if they go into water, the water is forced into the treads and the tire itself can make good contact with the road underneath. Without those treads, the water would form a film around the tire and you’d lose contact with the road and crash every time (hydroplaning).
They’ll cancel a race due to serious rain far faster than my boss will let me stay home due to bad weather. So my tires need to be more adaptable to varying road conditions.
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