Are the dry tyres directional now?

[alex1015]

In Formula 3 the tires are officially directional. However this usually serves as a refrence point. As tires used in qualifying must be used in a race some teams swap them across the center line of the car and run a RR as a LR etc.

The tires may not be unidirectional but the markings allow teams to know their history and track each tire in a set of 4 individually in addition to serial numbers, set numbers and batch numbers.

[PlatinumZealot]

Thanks for the replies..

Imagine I've been watching F1 for about 7 years and I thought the tyres were just "slap on and go" LOL

I guess I didn't really pay attention to the markings on the tyres until this year when they changed to slicks. I really took it for granted.

[speedsense]

Thanks for the replies..

Imagine I've been watching F1 for about 7 years and I thought the tyres were just "slap on and go" LOL

I guess I didn't really pay attention to the markings on the tyres until this year when they changed to slicks. I really took it for granted.

Thank god for tire engineers from the major tire companies that keep us idiots that will try anything to gain a few tenths by turning the tires around the wrong way because it worked once! Actually sometimes going against the tire companies recommendations works, though sometimes you just blow up a tire and wreck a car, because we can't just stop being racers....
You can never get enough information about tires, and they are the literal holy grail of everything that any engineer is trying to make work better than the next guy...

[xpensive]

This is interesting, when rear-tyres need to cope with stresses in both directions, breaking and accelleration, while fronts only have to bother with breaking.

530 kW (720 Hp)applied at 72 km/h without wheel-spin, means a traction-force of 13 kN (1.3 Ton) on each tyre.