@@steveb_ I went to a DTM race this year (at the Hockenheimring) and in the DTM you can enter the paddock with every ticket and meet the drivers and stuff. And there Michelin had a stand where they just handed out free used Michelin tires from practice, quali and the race to whoever wanted one
Pirelli: We spent millions developing these highly specific proprietary compounds that could be reverse engineered from a single scrap. MattWTF1: Yeah but like, I want a whole tire to make a table or something.
@@SuperOtter co-worker owns three rims from Racing Point.. Pretty big but I can imagine he would kill for an actual used tire to put on them. Edit: correction, he bought both a rim from perez and stroll... glass tables for his couch. Still bet he would kill for tires.
yeah I made a table outta an Hoosier sprint car rear tyre and cut out a round piece of ply . glued beer bottle caps allover and laquered it , looks good, recycle reuse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
You can get a table on F1 Authentics... I don't think they are the latest version of the tires though.... (F2 also sometimes used the same tires as F1 (not sure about currently) (and they seem to be in single digit numebrs) Edit: Those are listed as "show tires", so I'm not sure if they have an actual compound....
1 of the biggest wastes out there is the wet weather tyres, literally hundreds of tyres a year just go completely unused & then burned for no good reason as we only use wets maybe 7 or 8 races a year. There is absolutely no reason why they can't either be left on the rims or if they are dismounted suitably inspected for damage & replaced if needed on the very small number that may sustain damage
Tyres not only wear out by mileage, but also wear, that's why you have a tire change either every year or when the treads are worn, whichever comes first. This effect should be more pronounced on the specialty made F1 compounds and you wouldn't want the cars being unable to run when a track suddenly gets wet, so it's a waste that has (yet) no clear answer.
Every other year is a bit of an overkill don't you think? Generally it's 5 years since the date of manufacturing. It also depends largely on storage conditions.
@@TheZanzaroni why is this relevant, Pirelli considers a tire used as soon as it's been mounted on a rim, even if it just sits in the truck or back of the garage for an entire race weekend. After this it is destroyed as it has been on a rim, it as never seen a single cm actually on a car. Sky did a segment on this & in the dessert they have tens of sets of wet weather tires on rims just sat at the back of the garage just in case it rain in the desert, these get destroyed post race as they are considered "used" Also if you are changing your tires on your road car every year you are either very bad at driving, dong a hell of a lot of miles or have way to much money.
2:38 re: tyres being used after being fitted to the rims: I think i read once that they're so tightly fitted that they can't be removed from the rims non-destructively, ie. that removal inevitably damages the tyre preventing reuse
I believe this is correct. Once inflated they never quite go back to being the same. BBC had a feature on how the tyres are made and they mentioned this when discussing testing.
@@A.M.T.P. I was wondering the same. I remember reading a long time ago that once a tyre was fitted to a rim and used, neither the tyre or the rim were used again??
@@classabjb5697 I think I read about this somewhere that they collect even the little tyre fragments because they don't want anyone to be able to reverse engineer the formula of those tyres, so I don't see that ever happening unfortunately...
@@derincosar5699 as soon as they opened the door for people to see the podium in the main straight I noticed some rubber left on the side of the track and went to pick it, next time I may get the Drs board or something as they usually forget about it
Teams make deals with certain Perfomance Fuel manufacturers and they make fuel exclusively for them. They don't really reveal the contents of the fuel, to have an advantage over the others, obviously. For eg: Merc has Petronas, Ferrari has Shell, Mclaren has Gulf oil, RB has Esso and so on.
I'm pretty sure we don't get coffee table tyres as Pirelli keep a VERY STRICT overview of every tyre made so the latest generation of tyres don't get out into competitors hands and cut up for inspection. Teams are fined a lot of money if they lose a tyre.
Might not be the team losing the tires, might be Pirelli, the logistics company, the people who crush the tires. I'm sure, after the race has completed, the chain of command on those tires gets pretty loose.
If the tires are releases to the public, that means additional research can be done by the teams to optimize their strategies. That is probably the reason why they get burned; to protect the IP of Pirelli and to avoid one team having an advantage.
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept.
@@skycaptain95 It would recover energy and not be considered recycled if it was burnt in an incineration plant where there has to be a lot of treatment to the exhaust. Cement production has far fewer regulations and thus is commonly used to get rid of the more problematic waste like tyres. This is actually worse but considered recycling somehow.
The burned statement is incorrect. They go through a process called fast pyrolysis. The tyres are heated in an oxygen free environment to the temp they normally would have combusted. This causes the tyre to break down into its components. The process is relatively self sustaining when started. At the end you recover oil, carbon black and steel. The carbon black can be used for new tyres, inks etc
@@skycaptain95 burning tires is a net loss most likely. A lot of energy already put when making it, not to mention the raw material used. Very stupid solution in my opinion, total green washing.
“Burned at a very high temperature to create energy”…… so how much energy is used for the burning and how much is created and what amount of pollution created? Glad we banned plastic straws though….. I call bull sh.it on this, anyone dumb enough to believe this?
It makes a real mockery of F1's carbon zero announcements to keep using so many tyres in this fashion. Eliminate the requirement for rapid degradation and the two compound rule, and give the drivers tyres that are actually useful over a full race distance. If they keep developing the rules to allow cars to follow closely, there will be no need to make things more exciting by such artificial means as enforced pit-stops, anyway.
That will make it interesting, one set of tyres for entire season, when they spent, so is your season. It’s up to each team how they strategise how hard they go on them each race. Will make for incredible strategic racing
So basicly its a problem thats need to change... Way too many tires and they simply get burned after the weekend, no matter how far away from England the race was... Great job...
They would never, ever allow tires to be sent to fans as the formula is closely guarded. Teams can't even dispose of their own tires, they have to return them to Pirelli.
I really did think that by recycling you meant that they took them, melted them down and used them to create new ones... I don't actually know if that would work but it would be cool if it did happen like that
Though they would get fewer tyres each time as much of the rubber is either laid down on the circuit as skid marks or is thrown off to the side as marbles.
Problem is chemistry. The vulcanisation process to harden the rubber creates crosslinks between the polymer chains, and is an irreversible process. Once you have crosslinked polymers, they don't melt under high heat. Instead, they simply fall apart and cannot be re-melted into new tyres. The only options for recycling are to either shred them and burn them as a fuel source, or to shred them and use them as aggregate in tarmac.
What if Pirelli would let teams leave unused tyres on the rims and use them over the next race weekend? Given that there are only 5 slick compounds it is guaranteed that at least one compound will be the same between two races.
there could be unequalness (some teams not running in wet practice session for example) but you certainly could shuffle forward the bulk of unused tyres equally. the teams would probably need to buy more rims or something, because they might not want to go to the next race, but one in 2 races time because its logistically better...
I think it's a safety issue at the end of the day. Just like with everything else in F1 if it can happen they'll put measures in. Doesn't matter if it has happened or not.
@@taylorcarr6748 I think not only is it the custody of the tyres that Perilli would potentially no longer have, but heat cycles. Over a race weekend the inters and wets are sat at the correct temperature and pressure in blankets waiting to be used. If they don't get used but are left on the rim they will go cold again during transport and storage until the next race weekend when they are bought up to temp again. However it does seem massively wasteful and a shame we can't have unused tyres that are in brand new condition for coffee tables and the likes. Although I am sure my wife is glad they don't sell them.
"our minds go straight to the simpsons and the springfield tire yard. fortunately that isnt the case at all in formula 1...". 1 minute later, actually, it is exactly like that.
I would be interested in a video what exactly teams do after a driver has wrecked the F1 car in a crash. What happens to the wreck/parts and how do F1 teams build up a car so quickly? It would be appreciated if you could give us a rundown in a video.
Vid: "They're being recycled!" Me: "Whoa, great. I wonder how." Vid: "They get incinerated in England." Me: "That's not recycling, that's burning trash!!" 😡
@@noeivanlopezfigueroa3624 Reusing the heat from trash incineration is a common thing and nothing special or super environmentally friendly, especially considering that those thousands of tires need to be produced in the first place as well.
I personally would love to have a tire table and a couple more to make coolers out of to take to the track or camping. I am surprised that they don't recycle them into new tires either race or street versions. Why can't that be done and why couldn't they use the already mounted tires for another race?
The tires are made from petroleum and must be made through chemical processes. Because of this, they can never make a used tire back into a new tire. It could maybe be recycles into something else, but it could never have the same properties as a tire. This is a big problem with all tires currently, and all plastic in general. The chemical properties just make it impossible to recycle them into the same thing, so they eventually become trash.
NASCAR and Goodyear have a simple solution to this problem: they sell them off to fans at the track for like $25. The ones that don’t sell get recycled. They shred them and use them for anything that needs shredded or ground rubber. Cattle mats, playground lads, tarmac aggregate, etc etc. Though I believe some are still burned at extremely high temperatures for industrial processes, like making cement.
I wonder what would generate more revenue: 1. Selling electricity from burnt f1 rubber and the savings from recycling tyres vs making rubber for new tyres or... 2. Auctioning used tyres to be sent to fans that want them
I live in Monza and every time there is the grand prix you see fans carrying tires, this is because here they just give them to you after the race ends
Giving tires to fans individually would use a lot of gas for shipping, especially if they were going directly to people's houses. It would be really cool to have a little table made out of one tho.
The tyres are taken to a company who I will not name at Oldbury Birmingham where they are shredded under strict security, the shredded tyres are mixed with ordinary road tyres and taken to calden low cement works and used has fuel.
Softs at silverstone for might not be the same compound as softs at spa for example. They just label 3 out of the 5 compounds soft/medium/hard for each race
I can recall visiting Sydney Australia in 1982 and seeing some very high priced F1 memorabilia in a specialist shop, including some expensive leather boots, soled with F1 rubber, accompanied by a certificate stating which driver had used the tyre at which GP. Now that would still sell, for sure! (Not sure how Pirelli degradation would work out on footware, nor how they are on a wet day!)
Damn it, man. I misheard Matt and thought that Perilli would send you a used F1 rim and tire. So I came to WTF1 comment section hoping for a Perilli order request form so I could order one...damn it, man.
I actually got used pirelli tyre. It is ultra soft tyre with competition marking. I got it from a friend, he managed to get few of them at autodromo brno during his race weekend
I have always wanted a Pirelli F1 tire at home. But I once saw that someone actually had one on their wall, and.... well, they glued a tire to a wall, so it kind of looks like trash inside your home
Theoretically they could use a carbon neutral process called destructive distillation which distills the tyres into thier original compounds, some of which can be used in biofuels for the F1 cars.
@@mitesh1982in Well if theyre not going electric, although their current engines only produce 0.7% of thier carbon footprint, its still the next logical step. And they could use the process to sell to other race series or fuel providers.
Goodyear and NASCAR have been selling race-used tires for years. They are dismantled from the rims and can be shipped to people's homes or bought at the race track.
I live in the states. Anyway we had a rear tire off a Porsche 962 they gave us in the pits at Mid-Ohio. We put it in my grandmother's garage so she knew where to park the car. She would just bonk into the tire, and slap the old Caddy into park.
Love the idea. You could argue selling the tyre as a souvenir is better for the environment. Plus I have the perfect spot in my home for it (but I suppose everyone has).
My brother had this question, and now I know the answer. He's not interested in racing at all, and cites the wastefulness of the sport. I doubt I'll change his mind, but at least he'll know the tires are just being used to make run off barriers at a karting track.
Given what they sell for on ebay I'm surprised they don't sell them to fans. Although I assume the rims are reused and I don't think they would fetch the same price without the rims
I like the idea, if they would make it affordable I would totally get one. Sign up for a raffle for every race and all of the used tires get shipped to lucky winners and you can only win once in a season. That seems about right.
no lie, the way Matt worded it, i wouldn't mind having a used pirelli tyre as a souvenir. Call me crazy, but its not a bad idea at all. lol
If you go to a DTM race, they give you used Michelin tyres if you want to. I got one just standing around in my garage
@@naebrm_ how do you get one ?
@@steveb_ I went to a DTM race this year (at the Hockenheimring) and in the DTM you can enter the paddock with every ticket and meet the drivers and stuff. And there Michelin had a stand where they just handed out free used Michelin tires from practice, quali and the race to whoever wanted one
Not sure if I’d want one that’s completely shredded, or one that was unused
Go to the F1 team store they sell them there they're not cheap but they sell them
Pirelli: We spent millions developing these highly specific proprietary compounds that could be reverse engineered from a single scrap.
MattWTF1: Yeah but like, I want a whole tire to make a table or something.
muh doubt you could so easily reverse engineer it, I have seen enough worn F1 tyres for sale, take to much space in my opnionon tho
@@SuperOtter co-worker owns three rims from Racing Point.. Pretty big but I can imagine he would kill for an actual used tire to put on them.
Edit: correction, he bought both a rim from perez and stroll... glass tables for his couch. Still bet he would kill for tires.
You can buy tunnel test versions that have the actual compound too
yeah I made a table outta an Hoosier sprint car rear tyre and cut out a round piece of ply . glued beer bottle caps allover and laquered it , looks good, recycle reuse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
You can get a table on F1 Authentics... I don't think they are the latest version of the tires though.... (F2 also sometimes used the same tires as F1 (not sure about currently) (and they seem to be in single digit numebrs)
Edit: Those are listed as "show tires", so I'm not sure if they have an actual compound....
1 of the biggest wastes out there is the wet weather tyres, literally hundreds of tyres a year just go completely unused & then burned for no good reason as we only use wets maybe 7 or 8 races a year. There is absolutely no reason why they can't either be left on the rims or if they are dismounted suitably inspected for damage & replaced if needed on the very small number that may sustain damage
Tyres not only wear out by mileage, but also wear, that's why you have a tire change either every year or when the treads are worn, whichever comes first. This effect should be more pronounced on the specialty made F1 compounds and you wouldn't want the cars being unable to run when a track suddenly gets wet, so it's a waste that has (yet) no clear answer.
Every other year is a bit of an overkill don't you think? Generally it's 5 years since the date of manufacturing. It also depends largely on storage conditions.
Here’s an idea. Let’s go back to the grooved tires from back in the day. I liked those very much.
@@TheZanzaroni why is this relevant, Pirelli considers a tire used as soon as it's been mounted on a rim, even if it just sits in the truck or back of the garage for an entire race weekend. After this it is destroyed as it has been on a rim, it as never seen a single cm actually on a car. Sky did a segment on this & in the dessert they have tens of sets of wet weather tires on rims just sat at the back of the garage just in case it rain in the desert, these get destroyed post race as they are considered "used"
Also if you are changing your tires on your road car every year you are either very bad at driving, dong a hell of a lot of miles or have way to much money.
Race tires get stale and slower alot faster than road tires. They can lose grip after just a few months if they're not stored correctly.
They hang out together and gossip about Lewis complaining about them being gone!
This took me out
Right before setting the fastest lap/track record....
Lmao
@@DavidMiras can't even take a joke.
You say they hang out together, would this be in a retirement home?
2:38 re: tyres being used after being fitted to the rims: I think i read once that they're so tightly fitted that they can't be removed from the rims non-destructively, ie. that removal inevitably damages the tyre preventing reuse
I believe this is correct. Once inflated they never quite go back to being the same. BBC had a feature on how the tyres are made and they mentioned this when discussing testing.
Forget the tyres. What about the rims???
@@A.M.T.P. I was wondering the same. I remember reading a long time ago that once a tyre was fitted to a rim and used, neither the tyre or the rim were used again??
I mean, there are ways to buy race tyres for home use, but they're really, really expensive.
That’s just dumb they could definitely sell a margin of theirs 23’000 a year to fans
@@classabjb5697 I think I read about this somewhere that they collect even the little tyre fragments because they don't want anyone to be able to reverse engineer the formula of those tyres, so I don't see that ever happening unfortunately...
@@derincosar5699 I actually have tyre pieces from Barcelona 2016 in my room as decoration
@@geluxo3041 Wow thats actually interesting. Can you explain how it happened a bit more? Thanks
@@derincosar5699 as soon as they opened the door for people to see the podium in the main straight I noticed some rubber left on the side of the track and went to pick it, next time I may get the Drs board or something as they usually forget about it
I wonder how F1 deals with petrol. I mean, do they buy it from local gas stations? Do they get to use their own? Make a video please!
I truly envy you if you local gas station has F1 grade fuel on tap. LoL
You can look it up online or watch their 2022 car video which gives a small description of fuel
Teams make deals with certain Perfomance Fuel manufacturers and they make fuel exclusively for them. They don't really reveal the contents of the fuel, to have an advantage over the others, obviously.
For eg: Merc has Petronas, Ferrari has Shell, Mclaren has Gulf oil, RB has Esso and so on.
Every team has their own fuel supplier. Shell, Petronas, Mobil 1, Castrol etc.
@@vbence12 Funny part is Shell keeps on saying they have the same fuel in their petrol stations.
I'm pretty sure we don't get coffee table tyres as Pirelli keep a VERY STRICT overview of every tyre made so the latest generation of tyres don't get out into competitors hands and cut up for inspection. Teams are fined a lot of money if they lose a tyre.
Might not be the team losing the tires, might be Pirelli, the logistics company, the people who crush the tires. I'm sure, after the race has completed, the chain of command on those tires gets pretty loose.
Analysing the contruction of tyres is virtually impossible, bearing in mind all the compnents, chemicals used in their construction.
If the tires are releases to the public, that means additional research can be done by the teams to optimize their strategies. That is probably the reason why they get burned; to protect the IP of Pirelli and to avoid one team having an advantage.
Also to avoid competitors in obtaining their tyres
"OK Lewis, your tyres are actually gone"
It's not exactly recycling if they burn them now is it.
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept.
@@skycaptain95 it should not be.
@@skycaptain95 It would recover energy and not be considered recycled if it was burnt in an incineration plant where there has to be a lot of treatment to the exhaust. Cement production has far fewer regulations and thus is commonly used to get rid of the more problematic waste like tyres. This is actually worse but considered recycling somehow.
The burned statement is incorrect. They go through a process called fast pyrolysis. The tyres are heated in an oxygen free environment to the temp they normally would have combusted. This causes the tyre to break down into its components. The process is relatively self sustaining when started. At the end you recover oil, carbon black and steel.
The carbon black can be used for new tyres, inks etc
@@skycaptain95 burning tires is a net loss most likely. A lot of energy already put when making it, not to mention the raw material used. Very stupid solution in my opinion, total green washing.
well not really "recycled" then, just incenereted efficently. mh.
“Burned at a very high temperature to create energy”…… so how much energy is used for the burning and how much is created and what amount of pollution created? Glad we banned plastic straws though….. I call bull sh.it on this, anyone dumb enough to believe this?
Imagine Pirelli sending one of those tyres to your house with the yellow ball saying "Yes it's for you"
It makes a real mockery of F1's carbon zero announcements to keep using so many tyres in this fashion. Eliminate the requirement for rapid degradation and the two compound rule, and give the drivers tyres that are actually useful over a full race distance. If they keep developing the rules to allow cars to follow closely, there will be no need to make things more exciting by such artificial means as enforced pit-stops, anyway.
the grooved tires did that how that turn out
I know it's not comparable in any way, but Jim Clark supposedly made one set of tyres last a whole season back in the 60s.
That will make it interesting, one set of tyres for entire season, when they spent, so is your season. It’s up to each team how they strategise how hard they go on them each race. Will make for incredible strategic racing
So basicly its a problem thats need to change... Way too many tires and they simply get burned after the weekend, no matter how far away from England the race was... Great job...
Glad we don't have to worry about that in Simracing! 😂
They would never, ever allow tires to be sent to fans as the formula is closely guarded. Teams can't even dispose of their own tires, they have to return them to Pirelli.
I really did think that by recycling you meant that they took them, melted them down and used them to create new ones... I don't actually know if that would work but it would be cool if it did happen like that
Though they would get fewer tyres each time as much of the rubber is either laid down on the circuit as skid marks or is thrown off to the side as marbles.
Problem is chemistry. The vulcanisation process to harden the rubber creates crosslinks between the polymer chains, and is an irreversible process. Once you have crosslinked polymers, they don't melt under high heat. Instead, they simply fall apart and cannot be re-melted into new tyres.
The only options for recycling are to either shred them and burn them as a fuel source, or to shred them and use them as aggregate in tarmac.
What if Pirelli would let teams leave unused tyres on the rims and use them over the next race weekend? Given that there are only 5 slick compounds it is guaranteed that at least one compound will be the same between two races.
@@Nik-fh8ti wet and inters could be used like op comments tho
there could be unequalness (some teams not running in wet practice session for example) but you certainly could shuffle forward the bulk of unused tyres equally. the teams would probably need to buy more rims or something, because they might not want to go to the next race, but one in 2 races time because its logistically better...
I think it's a safety issue at the end of the day. Just like with everything else in F1 if it can happen they'll put measures in. Doesn't matter if it has happened or not.
@@taylorcarr6748 I think not only is it the custody of the tyres that Perilli would potentially no longer have, but heat cycles. Over a race weekend the inters and wets are sat at the correct temperature and pressure in blankets waiting to be used. If they don't get used but are left on the rim they will go cold again during transport and storage until the next race weekend when they are bought up to temp again. However it does seem massively wasteful and a shame we can't have unused tyres that are in brand new condition for coffee tables and the likes. Although I am sure my wife is glad they don't sell them.
If this was a child's bedtime story it would go:
'The tyres were melted down to make toys. And they all lived happily ever after'
They should be turned into very expensive pencil erasers
Sticky as hell, they would just leave dark patches on the paper
I have an old 2005 Michelin off the Renaults, honestly one of my favourite bits of F1 memorabilia
Pirelli can't sell them to consumers because the construction of the tyre is basically secret
It’s so funny when F1 drivers try to make the rest of us feel bad about global warming.
It's also funny when they say they represent their country of birth rather than their tax haven (sorry - country of residence).
"our minds go straight to the simpsons and the springfield tire yard. fortunately that isnt the case at all in formula 1...".
1 minute later, actually, it is exactly like that.
I want one, imagine having that as a coffee table or just as decoration, so cool
I would be interested in a video what exactly teams do after a driver has wrecked the F1 car in a crash. What happens to the wreck/parts and how do F1 teams build up a car so quickly? It would be appreciated if you could give us a rundown in a video.
I'd love a tire on my wall, and an red bull front wing. Or at least a tire with acrylic on top as a table.
I saw a vid of hamilton giving away one of his championship winning cars to a sick boy who had some disease
@@mitesh1982in they took it back
@@Rahul-kz5fi after
the boy died
there is a hotel in my hometown that has multiple front wings hanging from walls
This question has been in my mind for months. It’s kinda amazing how ya’ll made a video about it, knowing how specific it is.
Finally I have an answer for a question I've had in my mind for years
I’d love a set for my El Camino and now that they’re going to 18” wheels I could put 4 fronts on my Golf, would be so sick!
Vid: "They're being recycled!"
Me: "Whoa, great. I wonder how."
Vid: "They get incinerated in England."
Me: "That's not recycling, that's burning trash!!" 😡
Reused, could be a better term, it's reused as an energy source. But yeah that's not recycling
@@noeivanlopezfigueroa3624 Reusing the heat from trash incineration is a common thing and nothing special or super environmentally friendly, especially considering that those thousands of tires need to be produced in the first place as well.
2:47 the little Supercars clip, thnx WTF1 for showing the rest of the world what is aussies watch instead of when F1 is on at 4am on a Monday
I personally would love to have a tire table and a couple more to make coolers out of to take to the track or camping. I am surprised that they don't recycle them into new tires either race or street versions. Why can't that be done and why couldn't they use the already mounted tires for another race?
The tires are made from petroleum and must be made through chemical processes. Because of this, they can never make a used tire back into a new tire. It could maybe be recycles into something else, but it could never have the same properties as a tire. This is a big problem with all tires currently, and all plastic in general. The chemical properties just make it impossible to recycle them into the same thing, so they eventually become trash.
I have a used F3 tyre in my garden as a souvenir. At smaller categories like in my case a DTM event the actually give them away in the paddock.
I’d definitely love an F1 tyre, such a cool piece of memorabilia to have!
I'm totally on board with the tire idea as a nascar fan it's always good fun to see a good year eagle pop up somewhere
i'd pay 500€ for a nice red bull soft tyre - would look amazing on the wall behind the couch
Great content - love your work, team.
I've just got a tyre AD about repairing and delivering when I started to watch that video😆🤣🤣
NASCAR and Goodyear have a simple solution to this problem: they sell them off to fans at the track for like $25. The ones that don’t sell get recycled. They shred them and use them for anything that needs shredded or ground rubber. Cattle mats, playground lads, tarmac aggregate, etc etc. Though I believe some are still burned at extremely high temperatures for industrial processes, like making cement.
I wonder what would generate more revenue:
1. Selling electricity from burnt f1 rubber and the savings from recycling tyres vs making rubber for new tyres or...
2. Auctioning used tyres to be sent to fans that want them
Love the stock photo as 00:15
Impressão minha ou é a alfandega do Porto? 😅
@@tiagofigueiredo8856 é sim 😂
I live in Monza and every time there is the grand prix you see fans carrying tires, this is because here they just give them to you after the race ends
Never something i thought about but very interesting!
mate i literally wait for your videos to be posted everyday actually love your humor and your ideas too
P.S. Im a Schumi fan too :)
What about giving the teams a season allocation instead of a weekend allocation??
respect for keeping the vids short
I second the idea of getting a Tire at home! I'll pay for shipping myself. Great revenue stream with cost cutting measures on it and everything
Interestingly enough, some nascar teams used to let you buy the used tyres and some may even still do so
"the cars would go nowhere" was a perfect opportunity to cut to Verstappen smashing into a wall when his tire decided to quit.
I've never heard the name Mario Isola pronunced so badly😂
Giving tires to fans individually would use a lot of gas for shipping, especially if they were going directly to people's houses. It would be really cool to have a little table made out of one tho.
2:45 Australian Supercars (V8s) as Martin Brundle was talking about racing as well at the Australian GP 2022
I'd want one of Alonso's tyres from Hungary when he defended against Hamilton with Nando's signature.
The tyres are taken to a company who I will not name at Oldbury Birmingham where they are shredded under strict security, the shredded tyres are mixed with ordinary road tyres and taken to calden low cement works and used has fuel.
love the Idea of giving used F1 tyres as souvenirs. I want one 👍🏻🙏🏼
Who else doesn't
Who else misses having more than 3 dry compound tyres?
There are more than 3 dry compounds. C1 to C5 actually. But Pirelli only bring 3 to each race.
They just pick the targeted level for the three they want and they are called soft/med/hard even though they change.
Softs at silverstone for might not be the same compound as softs at spa for example. They just label 3 out of the 5 compounds soft/medium/hard for each race
I can recall visiting Sydney Australia in 1982 and seeing some very high priced F1 memorabilia in a specialist shop, including some expensive leather boots, soled with F1 rubber, accompanied by a certificate stating which driver had used the tyre at which GP. Now that would still sell, for sure! (Not sure how Pirelli degradation would work out on footware, nor how they are on a wet day!)
There used to be a shop in Bristol, UK, that sold F1 tyres converted into coffee table. I wanted one but was a poor student so couldn't afford it.
Some official pirelli tyre shops here have used F1 tyres on display, so i cant see why not selling some to fans too
please make a detailed video on the heaters, coolers, tyre jackets and the other component to pre heat or cool down the engine and tyre.
I saw fans after the 2015 Montreal GP carrying used tires after the race. They apparently just asked if they could have one...
Damn it, man. I misheard Matt and thought that Perilli would send you a used F1 rim and tire. So I came to WTF1 comment section hoping for a Perilli order request form so I could order one...damn it, man.
Short, informative and Sweet 👌
I actually got used pirelli tyre. It is ultra soft tyre with competition marking. I got it from a friend, he managed to get few of them at autodromo brno during his race weekend
Always wondered this, glad I know now.
Matt: used tyres should be sold to fans
Lewis: *laughs with 102 tyres at his home*
Sounds like a good idea I have a NASCAR rim and tire as my coffee table now
WHO IS WITH ME?! - you bought me, like kid a pack of gummies
yes I totally agree with it being brought to my house
When you talked about shipping to f1 fans, i rememberd that i have an original 1987 front whell, by Pirelli.
Unbeliveble isn't it.
I have always wanted a Pirelli F1 tire at home. But I once saw that someone actually had one on their wall, and.... well, they glued a tire to a wall, so it kind of looks like trash inside your home
Theoretically they could use a carbon neutral process called destructive distillation which distills the tyres into thier original compounds, some of which can be used in biofuels for the F1 cars.
Idt f1 gonna use biofuels
@@mitesh1982in Well if theyre not going electric, although their current engines only produce 0.7% of thier carbon footprint, its still the next logical step. And they could use the process to sell to other race series or fuel providers.
They crushed 1800 tires instead of auctioning them off to fans to be made into a host of things... well done Pirelli... damn bananas
Good idea!!! I thought of that 30 years ago...
Goodyear and NASCAR have been selling race-used tires for years. They are dismantled from the rims and can be shipped to people's homes or bought at the race track.
Excellent job, you worked hard.
I live in the states. Anyway we had a rear tire off a Porsche 962 they gave us in the pits at Mid-Ohio. We put it in my grandmother's garage so she knew where to park the car. She would just bonk into the tire, and slap the old Caddy into park.
Love the idea. You could argue selling the tyre as a souvenir is better for the environment. Plus I have the perfect spot in my home for it (but I suppose everyone has).
Love the nod to The Moving Bricks
My brother had this question, and now I know the answer. He's not interested in racing at all, and cites the wastefulness of the sport. I doubt I'll change his mind, but at least he'll know the tires are just being used to make run off barriers at a karting track.
Id love to have a full set of used or newish tires. So many decorating ideas.
It is a shame those used unused tyres from the cancelled Australian GP weren't sold off to fans. Could have been a great charity fund raiser.
Used tire, unused tire, used engine block, intake, turbo... I would make art of any one of them for the man cave!!!!
They could grind them up and put them in asphalt like they have done in Phoenix Arizona. Makes the asphalt quiet and very grumpy.
What happens to the incinerated tires? Are they mixed into concrete and used as road material?
surely they can use some to build better barriers on the side of tracks
I totally agree with Matt. I’d buy a used Pirelli tire as a souvenir. Where do I sign up? Lol
Given what they sell for on ebay I'm surprised they don't sell them to fans. Although I assume the rims are reused and I don't think they would fetch the same price without the rims
I like the idea, if they would make it affordable I would totally get one. Sign up for a raffle for every race and all of the used tires get shipped to lucky winners and you can only win once in a season. That seems about right.
I would think they would cryogenically process the tires to reuse the rubber. It's a process that has been around since the 1970s.
Thanks. Definitely would love a used soft compound on the wheel.... :)
0:14 Portooooooooo
Mas que raio são aqueles arranha ceus ali atrás?👀
I'd love me a tire, but the reality is, "a Randy" is going to fit to his low profile Fiesta and rock in the hood :D
0:46 poor Bridgestone
Great video as alway, but I was wondering if you could make a video explaining what goes into how which team gets which pit garage is decided
its determined by previous year's team standings
I’ll take that front tyre from Lewis’ car at the end of the silverstone race that blew out but he finished the race.
I've got one of Max's RB15 tyre/rim for 2.5 years and the yellow 'Pirelli P zero' has all but faded away now.
Didn't see that coming. 😏
holy sheeet the dislike is actually gone-