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For decades, F1 cars have run on 13-inch wheels, wrapped in tires with high-profile sidewalls. But as part of 2022's radical technical shakeup, the sport is now joining much of the rest of the ...
Formula 1 is abandoning its 13-inch wheels — the standard for decades — for 18-inch ones. Moving to bigger wheels is not a change that teams, in particular, were itching to make. The lower profile ...
Formula 1 will undergo huge changes for 2021 and one of these will be the introduction of 18-inch wheels to replace the current 13-inch rims. Pirelli will continue to supply the tires for the ...
Formula 1 is considering ditching the current ... the 2026 wheel size would fall between the current 18-inch wheel and the previous 13-inch rim with 16 inches being the leading contender.
Formula 1 will swap to 18-inch wheels in 2021 while ... at the time it was decided to stick with the current 13-inch wheels. That, though, will change in 2021. The FIA will introduce low-profile ...
F1 tyre manufacturer Pirelli has signed off on the new, 18-inch tyres that’ll be brought into the sport next year, replacing the current 13-inch ... on top of the wheel nut, teams will have ...
Detractors look at a modern Formula One car and wonder what relevance they ... The regulations call for 13-inch wheels (plus or minus a few millimeters) with tires that can be no larger than ...
In 2022, F1 switched to 18-inch wheels from its previous 13-inch technology and, with it, mandated a single supplier with BBS answering the call to tender for the prescribed part. In December 2019 ...
F1 cars currently run on 13-inch wheel rims but the sport’s sole tyre supplier used the second day of this week’s Silverstone test to showcase an experimental larger wheel and tyre size ...