why do racecars have to change tires so often? Usually tires are good for much longer than a day.
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formula 1 fan here, not a tyre engineer. But a slightly different view from the comments below (which i agree with) but the tyres in F1 are different compounds to each other, teams have a choice of soft/medium/hard.
This is/was supposed to increase the racing appeal, add strategies options to the teams, another view is the racing is so dull, you can only overtake in the pits.
NB the racing is not that dull, its actually been quiet good last few years, but its an accusation that is sometimes thrown at F1 and maybe there has been some truth in that in the past.
But tyre strategy to increase commercial appeal of F1, make the racing more exciting, “will the tyres fall of a cliff with 5 laps to go” will the guy on new tyres close that gap? woooo exciting !
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