Tyres

Goodyear Tyres has launched ‘Donut Ignore the Signs’ - a campaign designed to both educate drivers on the signs and symptoms of unhealthy tyres and encourage them to commit to the habit of checking their tyres once a month.

Underinflated tyres don’t roll as easily as properly inflated tyres do, and the more your tyres have to ‘fight’ the road surface, the more fuel your vehicle consumes.

The late incident involving the Dane left one of his tyres stranded in the middle of the circuit, sparking a frantic shootout at the end of the 58-lap contest with the majority of drivers on new soft tyres.

He had been second fastest on used tyres in the second part but was 0.36secs slower on new tyres in the final session, saying he had lost front grip.

Verstappen had been on provisional pole with new tyres, despite a big slide, before the final flying laps with the McLaren drivers second and third on used tyres.

We had Dunlop tyres at the time, and some of them started producing tyres for our aircraft.

As a part of this association, Maxxis Tyres will be available at select Yamaha and Maxxis dealerships across India, the company said, adding, the tyres will be an Original Equipment (OE) fitment to Yamaha scooters.

Interacting with mediapersons, Goenka said the plant would make radial passenger vehicle tyres as well motorcycle radial tyres.

A police official said companies involved in the event — Maxperienace, Mahindra, JK Tyres, MRF Tyres and the Federation of Motor Sports Club of India — have also been named in the FIR in connection with the Saturday accident.

Niemand encourages car owners to avoid buying used tyres and to check the date on all new tyres purchased.

If rain tyres are used, drivers are no longer obliged to use both types of dry tyres.

The typical compromise is between grip and longevity—softer compound tyres have more traction, but wear out more quickly; harder compound tyres have less traction, but are more likely to last the entire race.

The Williams team then pitted Piquet to change tyres as a safety precaution, while Prost had already pitted earlier due to a puncture and did not need to change his tyres again.

This so-called 'narrow track' era resulted in cars with smaller rear tyres, a narrower track overall, and the introduction of grooved tyres to reduce mechanical grip.

Adam emphasised the severity of the issue, saying: "This car is a fire hazard and cannot be moved in an emergency due to flat tyres.

Alonso comes in, his tyres are changed but he is not cooled down by anything.

Alonso managed the gap to keep Hamilton out of the DRS zone, and nursed his tyres and brakes to yet another second place finish.

And I need to clean his road bike because it’s covered in energy and the tyres are flat but I just can’t touch that either.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 8.45am on Tuesday, 14 November, we received a report of tyres on industrial vehicles being damaged when parked in a layby on the A7 around a mile south of Selkirk.

As for Russell, while he started back in P12 he quickly charged through the field, and was up to P5 by Lap 11. He moved into third on Lap 20, when Stroll had to come in for fresh tyres.