What if I told you that in these restricted regs and Pirelli cheese tyres, the teams maybe, with a high likleylood, would give up a bit of pressure stablity for temperature stability?piast9 wrote: β03 Nov 2024, 00:51That claim is ridiculous. Teams are pumping up the tyres with dry nitrogen for years for better pressure stabilty over temperature range as desorbing water adsorbed on and absorbed in the rubber increases the pressure variations. And now they'd start filling them with water?
Lets compare the heat capacity and latent heat of 100% humidity (air saturated with water vapour) from a high temp, and down to some medium temperature under a given starting tyre pressure. It could be that little bit of latent heat as the water condenses and evaporates helps with the temps(and EVEN lowers pressure a bit too!).
The other thing to be aware of is that teams sometimes makes inquiries on their own naughty ideas, veiled as a suspicion of other teams using that idea to cheat to "test the waters."