Tyre in Formula One

In motorsport, tyres are one of the most important component that affect the engine performance on track. The tyres are the only contect patch between a car and the ground. A little change on the tyres can greatly influence the performance of a racecar, especially Formula One car.

The official Formula One tyres supplier, Bridgestone, produces about 50.000 tyres in a seasons. Before producing, Bridgestone tyre engineers have to design the compound of the tyre in order to get the best tyre for race. A good tyre should have a strong grip with the ground. To get more grip, the engineers add more rubber into the element of the tyres. Wide tyre also could maximize the grip of tyre.

To compensate for lost footprint area in F1 tyres, the tyre engineers are designing the smaller diamater tyres with more flexible sidewall so more tyre will come in contact with the track. Judging from this knowledge, it is wise to choose a tyre with a taller carcass when running on a track with a rough or bumpy surface so the stiffer sidewall will help cope with the bumps and irregularities.

Almost all of the tyre parts are coloured in black. It comes from the carbon black. It's the best reinforcement for the rubber and makes the tyres black. Actually, there are also some different colour reinforcement, either blue or red, but it's not as strong as carbon black so that's why F1 tyres are black.

After designing the tyres, Bridgestone produces the tyres. Then, the produced tyres will be sent to the F1 teams a day before the practice day.

Before starting a race, the car engineers from each team always cover the F1 tyres with black blanket called tyre warmer. It could set the temperature of the tyres up to 100 degrees Celcius. They warm the tyres in order to get more grip from the heated tyres. The tyres will become very hot. Then there is a joke around F1 engineers, if you hungry, just fry an egg on the tyres.

In the end of the race, some of the used tyres are examined by team engineers and some of them are shipped out to Bridgestone factory, Japan, to be burnt in one of the factory facilities.

Devita Sari
16607090

Good, thanks for posting.

Strat Lover

Fender Stratocaster(Strat) is a prestigious electric guitar produced by Fender Musical Instrument Corporation. Stratocaster guitar, invented in 1954 by Leo Fender and Freddie Tavares, has old-fashioned body shape, glassy-honking sound and bell-like harmonics as its prominent traits. It has more complex electronics than Fender’s first guitar (Telecaster), such as three single coils, synchronized tremolo, and five way selector switches and a Fender Strat is crafted using qualified materials by licensed workers. It is also one of the most enduring and common models of electric guitar in the world.

Nowadays, Fender Stratocaster guitar has become popular among worldwide musician, especially blues and jazz musician because of its vintage model, clear sound, and quality.Besides that, its price is affordable($400-$2000). In addition, Fender Stratocaster guitar has ever accompanied a lot of great musicians on their stages such as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Richie Blackmore, Brian May(Queen), Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Yngwie Malmsteen , and Eric Johnson.



Garry.G.P.
16507171

Do you like playing? Listening to Bujana playing is nice and relaxing.

computer game as a drug

Computer game is not only an entertainment but also a drug. First time you play it, you (usually) will not like it. Second time you play it, you will somewhat enjoy it. Several times you play it, you will a little bit like it. More and more you play it, you will more and more addicted. Last, if you already love it, you will play it three days non-stop , moreover, you will play it until your angel-of-death stands behind your back. For your information, Kompas has written an article about a man who plays computer game for 4 days and died at South Korea.




zaky hassani
16507167
Good, thanks for posting.

Everybody Knows That They Are Innocent, But...

There are two main factors that make population of elephants become less and less. They are internal factors and external factors. Internal factors are something that comes from the elephants themselves. It is like incapability to adapt with their environment, both in their colony and in others populations. The external factors are from outside, such as an unpleasant habitate, lack of food, human behaviour, and soon. According to the fact, 3 elephants die every day because of those factors in Bungo Tebo, Jambi. It is kind a worry! It happens not only because of nature selection but also human fault. They hunt the elephants for the high price of their tusks or sometimes they kill them just for fun. Meanwhile, the capacity of Way Kambas in Lampung is limited, there are no room for others wild elephants anymore. So, it can be sured that many wild elephants will breathe their last breath in open air and the elephants become extinct. Poor them...

Nurika M.I

16607127

Good thought.