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Legend says, Checo has never bought tires for his road cars

If not for mandatory pit stops, Checo would still be running the tyres he had at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix.

I read a biography on Checo's younger years that said when Checo used to kart in Mexico, his dad wouldn't buy him new tires so he would always use his old tires or even get wasted tires that still had a bit of life on them from the other kart racers that had the resources to get new ones. The biography said that he did this so often that he even started to save tires during his races just to have them for the next one. I love Checo he's a real Mexican legend. And a shining bright light of hope in a country were bad news is heard of far too often. Venga Checo!!!!

If only his engine lasted longer than the tires.

Every time I remind myself how little 1 or 2 tenths of a second is, and how these drivers are measured according to such split second differences, how they can squeeze out a tenth or so in a given lap, I feel such awe at their driving abilities. They’re doing this precision driving at the absolute limit of the fastest cars in the world, while adjusting 3 or 4 car parameters per corner sequence, at extraordinary speeds, under high pressure, trying not to crash and possibly die, oh, and win points or a race for their team.

Checo had his tyre saving training at Force India where 1 stop was a defacto setting. Him and the Hulk were very good at it and they got some great results by doing that. Fantastic to see Checo carry that over to the Red Bull. :)

Checo said he "learned a lot from Kobayashi on how to work with the tyres…" and Kamui explained the technique of choosing one turn/sector of the track where you go slower, while still pushing hard in the other sections of the track on Beyond the Grid. What Perez actually has, is a special ability to go very fast & very long on the hard tyres. He’s essentially getting medium tyre performance, out a hard tyre. I don’t know how he does it… his pace increases slightly, then it just stays there forever!! Meanwhile, everyone else is losing lap time & tyre performance.

Love the recognition you’re giving to Checo, I remember in Turkey in one of his first races most people were on 3 stops and he had only one 😂 everyone thought the transmission was wrong

Tbh I haven't seen much of the tyre whisperer thing this year. Max seems to nearly be doing a better job at it so far in 2022, which is strange. Come to think of it, even last year some races Perez didn't really make them last that much longer. Hope Perez gets to his tyre whisperer skills back to his RP/FI days

There's Checo defending and saving tyres, and then there's what Gilles Villeneuve would do back then.

Love every Vid guys. Thanks so much! As an automotive technician for 25 years I was drawn to F1 for the technology aspect 22 years ago and have only missed one race since then. I LOVE. learning about the Tech of F1

You know why I rate your channel the highest amongst f1 UKpostsrs. You’re not click baiting. Everyone in the community tries to make your kind of videos, but really they end up taking the piss. They should probably make shorts. Because this is a type of video that needs prior knowledge to understand the phenomenon in full depth. 😂 People are making videos about post conferences trying to do In depth about off topic issues. Anyway continue to be you mate. Fingers crossed for 10k new subscribers🤣we all want to see what happened.

Please make a video about Vettels driving style. People say he likes oversteer, while other say he likes understeer. And does Vettel like a stiff front spring and front roll bar, while softer on the rear? And is he very good on street circuits, because of the soft rear in combinaton of the v-line? And does he like much rear wing or consistent rear downforce or both?

THANK YOU for this video. Ever since I got into F1 (end of last year) I've really struggled to understand tires, compounds, and wear. This was a fantastic explanation with great examples. Thank you!

Finally someone explained this! Can you make another video explaining how to put temp on the tires and manage that please!

I thought Albon eclipsed that in this year's Australian GP by running almost the entire race in 1 tyre.

More interesting is how does Lewis/ Max keep tyres alive AND maintain pace? This seems to be something only a few drivers can do. What’s going on?

I love this stuff guys and gals.. Thank you so much! Cheers! I'd love to see Vettel's tire skills back in t his championship days. As I'm sure you remember, he went to the Pirelli factory during the winter break and no one else did. Hence a masterful season understanding the tires and their properties. Thanks again.

Lovely content! Thanks for the explanation :) I'd love to see more about techniques to steering, throttle, and braking. Mostly with today's drivers.

I feel Raikkonen was also very good at it during his time at lotus

Legend has it that Checo's been using the same rubber in bed since 10 years!

Checo running around Turkey with the good ol' interslicks was a thing of beauty.

I was waiting for this video for a long time 😍😍😍 Saludos From Checo's Home Land

Great timing posting this after the awful weekend he endured at Canada ^^

Abu Dhabi last year Lewis did an insane job with those old hards, even max with fresh mediums couldn't even keep up

When Checo was a child and competed in Kart, his limited resources limited him to use new tires every race, yet he still achieved great results in national competitions and it is said that this is the reason why he is so good at tire management.

Clicked faster than tsunoda getting out of the pits 🔥

I just love those breakdowns of driving styles!

I loved the thermal images that skyf1 used to show how hot/cold the tyres were

This guy explains stuff so clearly and simply 👍🏽

Respect to you Driver61 you broke it down so well 🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾

this is very informative video. i saw on some old videos that shows tyre temperature thru the thermal cameras. why we don't see that anymore? also, how pit wall asses the status of tyres while the cars on tracks?

I feel like Seb is being left out of this vid, might be intended, might be not. But I think he's also great at saving tires and extending his stints, some of the last GP's are proof for that :)

And once again I think this helped checo this passed weekend from last to second. 🇲🇽 vamos checo

Already subscribed but I want to see one of your biggest mistakes. Or really any content that leans more directly on your actual experience. Keep up the great work.

Subbed to see the mistake. Plus it was about time since I’ve been enjoying your content.

1 of 10,000 new subs. Have been watching for a while apologizing now for now having clicked. Let’s see the error. Love the analysis

Great explanation. Thanks, very interesting.

Admit it, a video about Checo, especially about his incredible tyre management, was long overdue.

Legend says it that the first wheels ever invented are still running, fixed to Checo's minivan.

I think Lewis convinced me he's a good driver when his tyre stayed fresher than everyone else when he was stuck in the back for one of the races. You could say a car configured properly, even if it has issues for winning, could aid in saving tyres, that'd be a good topic to explore.

Nice video. Also USA 2021 was worth mentioning.

Great vid as usual. Is this something which could impact drivers simply because the teams don't understand it: Team player vs a driver who is much more individual and head strong?

Great video! Thanks! I was also wondering: how much of the current way of driving in F1 is just because of physics and rules -the cars move in the most efficient way possible within the limitations and that determines almost all driving decisions? Or does a degree of style or fashion also play into this? I mean would it be reasonable to think that in a decade or so, even within the same kind of limitations, common driving styles could be drastically different? Are there new strategies to be discovered here or are we just juggling known possibilities? I would be very curious to know how you think about this.

Physics taketh, physics giveth… This amazing skill is also the reason he is a bad qualifier. It might even explain why Lewis’ notorious qualifying pace has softened over the years as his tyre management skills have improved.

Informative!

Great video, but would just like to say that there are additional mechanisms on top of just the deformation grip you mention in the video (micro and macro features on the track surface and the tyre squishing into those to provide mechanical keying), including adhesion (literal molecular bonding between the tyre and the track surface, "stickiness" of the tyres, also affected by how they deform into the track surface, since it affects actual contact area) and tearing/wear generated grip. Yup, "tearing/wear" is also its own kind of grip type, as explained by inside racing technology: "High local stress can deform the internal structure of the rubber past the point of elastic recovery. When polymer bonds and crosslinks are stressed to failure the material can't recover completely, and this can cause tearing. Tearing absorbs energy, resulting in additional friction forces in the contact surface." These three are usually considered the main methods that tyres generate grip with, and each can react differently to track surfaces, temperatures, load, etc. A good example of this is wet weather, which can almost completely remove the adhesion effect (similarly to why sticky tape doesn't work well on damp or wet surfaces), leaving deformation and tearing as the main methods of generating grip.

insane that they're doing all this while keeping a formula 1 car on track. respect.

Great video clips!

Awesome information, Great video..

As an engineer i have a slight critic. Saving your tires for a long stint is all about smoothening out the load of the tire, while still pushing enough load trough them to keep them at temperature. So the total amount of work around the lap stays roughly the same, to keep your laptime, but you avoid to high and to low. Especially g's. Lets start with braking. If we go from 300km/h to 100km/h we always dicipate the same amount of energy. But if we brake for longer we get several benefits. First and most important drag. Drag and downforce are work against the air, so we can dicipate energy from the car into the air. So win-win less energy in the car and we didn't even dicipate it trough the tire. 😁 we also make more dirty air something Lewis did a lot to Vettel. Second one is regenerative braking of the rear. Put's mechanical load trough the tire, but we convert the energy to electricity rather than heat. So this part of braking wont heat up the tire only the heat generated by friction will. A win for saving tires. Last is pure mechanical braking like at the front. If we brake for longer the brake has more time to convert the mechanical energy in the car to heat energy. So we can dicipate the same heat over a longer time but at lower temperatures. Here we have a synergy with downforce as well. At high downforce the tire will slide less. So we should do a lot of braking at high speed, and less braking at low speed so we keep a constant ratio of required g's and the max g's possible. This part is where Checo is so good and why he is so good in tire preservation and defending. Second thing is cornering. We want to apply smooth g's so we have to transition from braking into steering very smooth. Every tenth of a g we don't need for braking anymore we want to add in steering. Also we either want a longer route at the same optimal speed to get a flatter g graph, or we want the same optimal rotation but at a lower speed so the peak in g's wont hurt the tires. Usually you want a wider line with a faster exit speed to help you with tire preservation on the straight. Third is the straight: to keep it linked to the corner every tenth you don't need for turning anymore you wonna add to acceleration. So you actually pick up the throttle really early risking to go wide. You did not build up that much temperature in the brakes aka a lot of that energy has already left the car in form of hot air. So you can't afford to turn for too long without brake or gaß or you loose too much temperature! Remember we want things to be smooth. But most important for tire preservation on the straight: a tire rotates proportional to speed and a engine produces roughly the same power at every speed. So at low speed the engine will scrub the same tiny piece of tire along the surface for longer, until it can rest all the way around. So you don't want to put too much power into the rear at low speed and might boost your mid to top speed if you have a battery like F1. On the other hand your tire will cool down for an eternity at low speed. So we wont be at low speed for as little as possible. So try to exit the corner with as much speed as possible, so the tire is up rotating and will be hurt by the engine only for very small amount of times. And that for me is the reason why Max was so damn fast all season. He found the right sweetspot off bringing the brakes up to temperature, allow for fast rotation of the car at low speed and bring the car up to speed befor the tires get to cold to handle the power. Max and Sainz actually never fully lifted at some corners. They probably cranked up recovery braking and tried to max out the battery in the corner. Which you have to do if you coast a lot into a corner.I Despite you can calculate all of this stuff in neat differential equations that only the engineer who wrote them fully understands it really is a sport and art to cope with all of these compromises at the speed these things are going. I just wish they were allowed to play even more with the amount of energy they can recover and deploy while staying within a fuel limit. Makes the pace of a car far less predictable.

This really highlights just how skilled these drivers are

Could've mentioned how Alonso uses/used extreme understeer to go through graining faster. Still, really good video, thanks

please do put more info on you in a video whether it be next video or not, you’ve had an amazing career and i’ve watched others videos on your career and found it very interesting, would be great to hear it from your point of view

Its said that checo had to manage tyres at very young age due to how expensive they were in mexico.

Great video!

Some say he developed that technique whilst his earlier karting days as he very often had to race on used rubber, so he learned how to get the most out of each set of tyres to overcome low budget constraints.

Really well-made video

This last race (Canada '22) he was awesome at it. They say his tires were no more than 10 laps old.

Check and hamilton are very good on breaking near corners , they are very clean and smooth drivers

It's great to see that you've received permission to use f1 imagery. The video quality has sky rocketed🚀

Thanks a lot.

That white RB was bloody gorgeous.

Thanks!

I actually think a driver who's often overlooked when talking about saving tires is Seb. He had quite a few instances of running reeeeally long while remaining at competetive speed in the last few seasons. And I can't help but think that for him it's an acquired rather than a "natural" skill. When he's was sort of competing against Hamiltion for the championship there were a few races where Ham beat him based on being better a saving tires and I really think since then Seb has become much much better at it to the point where I would probably put him above Max in a ranking about this particular skill (not above Checo though and maybe on par with Ham).

One thing you overlooked here is that the compound for each track this year differs. For example, next race is Silverstone, now the hard compound used in Canada last weekend will be the soft compound in Silverstone. That's their commitment to f1 this season going above and beyond to make sure the cars are fast and safe.

I thought Verstappen and Hamilton were the masters on saving tires.

Great video. That said, I really hate how tire management dominates F1 strategy these days.

He did some extreme tyre management in Canada by DNFing before they could get any wear

Great info

Very few people know this but checo has a special ability to collect discarded rubbers on track to make his tyres gripper.

Considering Max drives faster and holds tyres as long in the same car, I don't quite think there's any secret sauce to Pérez's tyre management. Checo is just a better driver at that than most of the grid, but not an unmatched prodigy of tyre management.

This is so true. Driver's saving the Tyre by sacrificing a little bit of lap time during the race! So we can't compare which driver is faster during the race. Some driver push too hard on their tyre, he get a fast lap but he would either need an extra pit stop or he will face tyre problem later.

Uhmmm, where was this tyre management in baku ?

My driving style the save tyres is : shifting gears at low - mid rpm at corners and turning the steering wheel slowly to reduce friction .

So, is it a good idea to push harder on left hand turns on a track mostly having right handers? Does checo's tyre saving ability has to do with setup or its just purely driving style?

After miami, i think its more than fair to say max is the best tyre manager on the grid by far.

Long flat out fast corners you can take slightly slightly off throttle which allow you to use less wheel and is a big tire saver

Yeah but i would say lewis is better, he saves tyres and he also has that raw pace somehow. In spanish gp this year, after lap 1 pitstop, he was on a 2 stop strategy (that didnt work out that well for many) but lewis aced it (and when he had the soft tyres at one point, he kept stringing fastest laps together and that didnt affect tyre life that much)

Interestingly, at Melbourne this year, Lewis got even better life out of his first set. At around lap 20 he was actually able to put Checo under some pressure.

those brake downs are incredible

Button was kinda good with the tires but he said sometimes he was too smooth, his tires got cold and he almost never was able to get them back to the optimum temps.

It's not just going blistering fast... certain drivers like Clark, Stewart, Lauda and Piquet had a knack for conserving not only the tyres but the entire car, a very important thing from the 1980s back because cars broke down so much more (wait, 2022 is looking like that!). Piquet, for example was known to his mechanics for having a car in infinitely better shape than most of his teammates, not counting Lauda, at the end of each race. One item that was especially susceptible to breakage were the pre sequential gearboxes, and the four drivers cited above were particularly good at preserving them. Villeneuve comes to mind here; super fast, but a godzilla inside the cockpit.

Good lord that thumbnail game!!!

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Checo is peaking and I couldn’t be happier for him!

this aged well..... checo screwed up the tire management on his last fight for p2

I've always wondered how they get the percentages for tire degradation to show on the little graphic

Ocon.. turkey 2020 no stop, and also master of saving his tyres..

Great video, but man ... 3:55 WHAT A PHOTOGRAPH

Great video Scott. One incidental comment though, the low background music distracted me and didn't do anything to enhance your excellent commentary. First World issue I know but just my opinion.

Tyre management thats not only making them last long, it’s a general skill and sensibility with the throttle, feeling of the car in general that allows you to work with tyres and find the grip in all conditions, with all types of tyres, control the temperature… It’s an overall feeling, and the driver who delivers master class the last few races on tyres is Verstappen… And since the begenning ! His first F1 win was in Spain on a race of tyre management…

Don't you forget about Ocon who passed through GP Turkey 2021 with single set of intermedium?

Today in an interview in Spanish Checo mentions that the tire degradation problems he had in Monaco and Baku were due to the fact that his driving style to take care of tires was the same as in other teams but that in RedBull it must be different. And that it has nothing to do with a set-up more focused on qualifying than on the race.

speaking about checo, Can you break down why he was so slow in Baku after the VSC

In the race you can see tyre management is underway when the sequence of how the gap between two cars oscillates changes.

I am guessing that the grip part isnt that hard to feel out but the tire ware must be some crazy intuition. I know this isnt even same as f1 but I cant even tell a difference in the tire ware. Car feels like new.

Is incredible how the little changes in aseleration and braking can make the tyres last longer

This reminds me of the Ford v Ferrari line "If you push a machine to its limit, you need to have some sense of where that limit is"