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Originally Posted by wnut
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KySJzJwP8fs
The turn four where Hildebrand hits the wall certainly has a massive groove with a lot of dust(?) on either side of the racing line, but the surface still seems free of marbles as the picture above illustrates. Perhaps Marbot may be right, but I don't know why. Is it possible to engineer the marbles out of tyres? It should be with a single tyre supplier.
The dust will still be there though as your example clearly shows. |
Well some tyres create a lot less marbling, I would assume that the harder (and thus more durable) the compound the less you create. I don't recall many marbles in the 2005 season for instance, even late in races, because the tyres had to be hard enough to last an entire race (what a great rule
). Equally, public roads aren't littered with marbles, although I suspect we don't drive fast enough to generate them anyways.
The Pirellis destroy themselves artificially, so they throw rubber everywhere, in some cases chunks probably too big to be called a marble!