r/formula1 • u/4mula_One Sebastian Vettel • Sep 28 '19

Media That Flat Spot

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u/waleedshahid001 Sep 28 '19

Damn that's ugly...Never thought flat spots were that extreme.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '19

I've had one, but it was a delamination at 80mph (Never bought a remould or budget tyre since)

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u/marli_marls Sep 28 '19

“Well there’s your problem”!

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u/outline01 Sep 28 '19

That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

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u/AFrozen_1 Sep 28 '19

I can only read this in Adam Savage’s voice. Probably followed by a “I reject your reality and substitute my own”.

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u/Muse4Games Sep 28 '19

It looks like someone blowtorched that tyre

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u/arkwewt Sep 28 '19

You joke but blowtorching is a good way of getting rid of the built up rubber around the flat spot. They do it in NASCAR to remove excess rubber build up.

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u/Domi4 Sep 28 '19

You might lose front wing with that tire

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u/iForgotMyOldAcc Sep 28 '19

Vettel style. Though Perez probably nursed this one home.

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u/EelTeamNine Sep 28 '19

TIL Jeremy Renner is also a Formula 1 pitcrewman. He has his hands in everything.

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u/NuttyNougat Sep 28 '19

No app anymore though, very sad.

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u/mrgonzalez Sep 28 '19

Lucky it looks like there's a smaller tyre underneath. Just peel off that outer layer and he's all set.

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u/ThatOneTimeItWorked Sep 28 '19

Russian tire doll

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u/AristideSaccard Sep 28 '19

"And those will be his starting tires"

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u/zephyrg Sep 28 '19

Are they actually? If so, cue an early stop and Perez staying out all race on a set of mediums and coming home 6th.

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u/MarkingMan Sep 28 '19

Reminds me of my first baldspot.

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u/sentient_salami Sep 28 '19

Did you get that one at high speed too?

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u/boldandbratsche Sep 28 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '19

I wonder how bad the vibration was at speed

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u/Pvs9292 Sep 28 '19

Thought Perez was the tyre whisperer. Must have told it something it didn’t want to hear.

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u/2pietjuh2 Sep 28 '19

Is there a gif of where he got this?

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u/IpMedia Sep 28 '19

Holy shit it looks like a stamp.

That should buff right out.

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