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by **Greg Cisk** » Tue, 01 Aug 2000 04:00:00

You are putting the cart infront of the horse I am affraid. It is not
a matter of the teams allowing it. FIA sets the rules. The teams
do it or they are out. Period, no discussion.

And the grooves are on the tires to slow the cars down, causing the
driver to work harder. More or less as you thought.

Not really. Rumor has it that many teams have figured out to do illeagle
traction control. In any event the cars are not hugely slower than before
the grooves. That is also supposedly the main reason that Zanardi
claimed that he could not drive the F1 cars. Also Mclaren emerged
as the big power in F1 with the advent of the grooved tires. They
totally sucked in the few years before grooves. F1 gets grooves
and BOOM. It is like Senna and Prost again :-)

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by **Superdav** » Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:00:00

Having only recently ( last year or so ) got into watching F1 and I have a
question. Who was the genius that decided that grooved tires were the way to
go for a modern F1 car in the dry? With all the power, handling and braking
prowess these vehicles have, I don't see why the drivers and teams would
have even considered allowing it. It would look to be very unsafe and just
push drivers more to the edge in trying to get the most out of a chassis.

I saw a photo of the McLaren in the pits on a sunny day and wondered why
they were on rains. Come to find out, it was the spec grooved tire.

Or was it to slow them down? Like the NASCAR restrictor plates? Did it work?
Have lap times stagnated since these tires came into play?

Just curious. Thanks.
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Dave Pawlikowski

by **Johan** » Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:00:00

> Having only recently ( last year or so ) got into watching F1 and I have a
> question. Who was the genius that decided that grooved tires were the way to
> go for a modern F1 car in the dry? With all the power, handling and braking
> prowess these vehicles have, I don't see why the drivers and teams would
> have even considered allowing it. It would look to be very unsafe and just
> push drivers more to the edge in trying to get the most out of a chassis.

> I saw a photo of the McLaren in the pits on a sunny day and wondered why
> they were on rains. Come to find out, it was the spec grooved tire.

> Or was it to slow them down? Like the NASCAR restrictor plates? Did it work?
> Have lap times stagnated since these tires came into play?

> Just curious. Thanks.
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> Dave Pawlikowski

It's to slow them down. It's a continuos work by FIA to hold the speed
down a little. I think it have worked because the lap records hasn't been
reduced by much if any.

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Johan N

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