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Now that is interesting! I always thought that from the beginning of time that the
whole idea of any tread was for water dispersion due to rain. And you say they had
different tyres for the wet????? Weird and wonderful stuff this. I just assumed that
because these cars basically never pitted that they went out on all weather tyres just to
be prepared for anything. Also, I thought that the tyre manufactures were probably using
F1 as a testing ground for their normal road going tyres. Hopefully someone around here
drops in on this thread with some info. Were the tyres used dedicated F1 tyres or general
purpose for eg?

Richard Walker wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 01 Oct 1998 19:41:36 +1000, Byron Forbes <hosh@ar.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >Pretty much what I was thinking. To expand a little, the 67 cars had tread on them even
> >in the dry and no doubt stayed on the same tyres even if it began to rain.
> 
> AFAIK they did have specific rain tyres with deeper grooves to disperse the
> water more effectively. I've never really bottomoed out the reasons for
> them having treads in the dry tyres, I've always assumed that they just got
> into the mentality that "tread = grip" and had trouble breaking out of that
> thought mode. Slicks are one of those things in life that just seem so
> obvious after the fact.
> 
> Anyone know the answer to this little conundrum?
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
> --
> We all bump into each other every day of our lives, and we render our opinions
> whether we know anything or not, and if anybody catches us out we lie...

-- 
 Byron Forbes
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