Tyre choice can win or lose you a motor race. Lewis Hamilton recently said that a team’s ability to manage its tyres "is the biggest question that needs answering in order to win the Formula One world Championship."
Tyre manufacturers use motorsport as a branding exercise and a way of legitimately spending large amounts of money on R&D. Birmingham-based Dunlop Motorsport makes around a thousand race tyres a day, 3,000 of which were in Silverstone this weekend for the FIA World Endurance Championship. The hardness of the rubber compound is varied for each…
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